MAUDE    ADAMS 
Drawn  from  life  by  Bradford  Johnson 


WHO'S  WHO 

ON 

THE  STAGE 

1908 

The  Dramatic  Reference  Book  and  Biographical 
Dictionary    of   the    Theatre.       Containing' 
Careers  of  Actors,  Actresses,  Man 
agers  '*#?$    Playwrights     of 
the  American,  Stage 


EDITED    BY 

Walter   Browne   and  E.  De  Roy    Koch 


NEW  YORK 

B.   W.  DODGE  &  COMPANY 

1908 


Copyright,  1908,  by 
B.  W.  DODGE  &  COMPANY 


Published 


INDEX    TO    ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

ADAMS,  MAUDE Frontispiece 

ALLEN,  VIOLA .  13 

BENNETT,  RICHARD 37 

BLANCHE,  BELLE 47 

BONITA 51 

BRITTON,  LILIAN 57 

BURT,  HARRIET         .........  65 

CARHART,  JAMES  L 73 

CARR,  ALEXANDER 75 

CLARK,  MARGUERITE         ........  87 

COHAN,  GEORGE  M .         .         .  93 

DEACON,  ARTHUR 121 

DE  BELLEVILLE,  FREDERIC 125 

EDESON,  ROBERT 145 

EDISS,  CONNIE          ......  147 

EGAN,  JEFFERSON 153 

ELLIOTT,  MAXINE     .        ,~~ 155 

FIELDS,  LEW 167 

FREDERICK,  PAULINE igi 

GEORGE,  GRACE Ig7 

GOLD,  BELLE     .......  199 

GOODWIN,  NAT  C 203 

HALE,  HELEN    ....   »  /Ofsit*  ^»  >  4fc  .  215 


INDEX  TO  ILLUSTRATIONS 

PACK 

HARRIS,  SAM  H 225 

HAWLEY,  IDA    .                 229 

HOLLINS,  MABEL 241 

ILLINGTON,  MARGARET 251 

LACKAYE,  WILTON    .........  273 

LEVEY,  ETHEL          . 283 

LUBY,  EDNA 289 

MCMILLEN,  VIOLET 293 

MANNERING,  MARY   .........  299 

MELVILLE,  ROSE 311 

MOORE,  CARLYLE 317 

MOORE,  IRENE           .........  319 

MOORE,  VICTOR  F 321 

NORRIS,  WILLIAM 331 

PALMER,  ETHELYN .         .         .  339 

PROCTOR,  CATHRINE          ........  351 

RITCHIE,  ADELE 367 

ROBERTS,  FLORENCE 369 

ROBSON,  ELEANOR 373 

RUSSELL,  HAROLD 383 

SANDERSON,  JULIA 385 

STARR,  FRANCES 413 

TALIAFERRO,  MABEL 421 

WARFIELD,  DAVID 443 

WEBER,  JOSEPH  M. 445 

WILLARD,  E.  S 443 

WRIGHT,  HUNTLEY 461 

YOUNG,  JAMES 465 


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ADAMS,  Miss  Maude  (Kiskadden) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  November  11,  1872.  Her 
father  was  James  Kiskadden,  a  business  man.  Her  mother,  a  well- 
known  actress,  Mrs.  Annie  Adams,  the  daughter  of  a  Utah  pioneer 
who  claimed  to  come  from  John  Quincy  Adams  stock,  is  still  play 
ing.  When  Maude  was  born,  Annie  Adams  was  leading  woman 
at  the  Salt  Lake  Theatre,  which  enjoyed  the  special  patronage 
of  Brigham  Young.  Phil  Margetts,  an  Englishman,  now  the 
proprietor  of  a  liquor  store  in  Salt  Lake  City,  but  formerly  a 
popular  comedian,  claims  the  distinction  of  first  putting  Miss 
Maude  Adams  on  the  stage,  or,  rather,  of  carrying  her  there. 
The  future  star  was  just  nine  months  old  when  a  play  called 
"The  Lost  Child"  was  being  produced  at  the  Salt  Lake  Theatre. 
She  had  been  taken  to  the  theatre  by  a  nurse.  Margetts  was 
cast  for  the  father  of  the  lost  child.  At  the  last  moment  he 
found  he  was  expected  to  fondle  a  rag  doll.  While  he  was  la 
menting  this,  Mrs.  Kiskadden  went  to  the  wings  with  Maude  in 
her  arms.  Margetts  snatched  the  baby  from  her  and  dashed 
on  to  the  stage.  When  she  was  five  years  old,  in  1877,  Miss 
Maude  Adams  played  her  first  speaking  part,  Little  Schneider, 
at  the  old  Bush  Theatre,  San  Francisco,  with  J.  K.  Emmet  in 
one  of  his  "Fritz"  plays.  She  also  played  Chrystal  in  "Chums," 
by  David  Belasco,  who  had  just  risen  from  call  boy  to  stage 
manager  at  the  Baldwin  Theatre.  In  the  cast  were  James 
O'Neill,  Lewis  Morrison  and  the  late  James  A.  Herne.  When 
she  was  six  years  old  she  was  sent  to  school,  where  she  re 
mained  until  she  was  sixteen.  Immediately  on  leaving  school 
Miss  Adams  played  the  part  of  a  schoolmistress  in  Hoyt's  "A 
Midnight  Bell,"  produced  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New 
York,  in  1888.  She  afterward  played  in  "Men  and  Women"  and 
created  the  part  of  the  crippled  girl  in  "The  Lost  Paradise," 
which  first  attracted  attention  to  her.  In  the  autumn  of  1890 
Miss  Adams  made  her  first  appearance  under  the  Frohman  man 
agement  as  Evangeline  Bender  in  William  Gillette's  comedy, 
"All  the  Comforts  of  Home,"  as  a  member  of  Charles  Frohman'a 

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. stock  cqmpany-at  what  is  now  Proctor's  Twenty-third  Street 
STe^  AV-k ^  Henry  Miller  headed  the  cast.  When  John 
Drew  left  the  Augustin  Daly  company  to  become  a  star  under 
Charles  Frohman's  management  Miss  Adams  was  selected  as  his 
leading  woman,  and  in  September,  1892,  she  appeared  with  him 
at  Palmer's  Theatre,  now  known  as  Wallack's,  in  Clyde  Fitch's 
comedy,  "The  Masked  Ball,"  and  made  a  marked  success  in  the 
part  of  the  wife  who  assumes  intoxication.  For  five  years  Miss 
Adams  was  leading  woman  with  John  Drew.  She  made  her  first 
appearance  as  a  star,  under  the  management  of  Charles  Froh- 
man,  as  Lady  Babbie,  in  J.  M.  Barrie's  "The  Little  Minister," 
in  Washington,  D.  C.,  September  13,  1898.  Her  first  stellar  ap 
pearance  in  New  York  was  in  the  same  play  at  the  Empire 
Theatre,  September  27  of  the  same  year.  Robert  Edeson  played 
the  title  part.  In  1900  Charles  Frohman  made  a  special  pro 
duction  of  "Romeo  and  Juliet,"  in  which  Miss  Adams  starred  as 
Juliet  in  a  successful  run  in  New  York  City  and  a  tour  of  the 
principal  Eastern  cities.  In  1901  she  starred  in  "L'Aiglon,"  act 
ing  the  role  originated  by  Sarah  Bernhardt.  In  1902  she 
starred  in  "Quality  Street,"  and  in  1903  in  "The  Pretty  Sister  of 
Jose."  After  a  season's  rest  she  reappeared  in  1905  in  a  revival 
of  "The  Little  Minister"  and  also  in  "  'Op  o'  My  Thumb."  On 
November  6,  1905,  she  opened  at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New  York 
City,  in  J.  M.  Barrie's  "Peter  Pan,"  which  she  played  through 
out  two  seasons.  Early  in  1908  Miss  Adams  appeared  in  "The 
Jesters."  Miss  Adams's  New  York  home  is  23  East  Forty-first 
street. 

AARONS,  Alfred  E.: 

Manager  and  composer,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  and  be 
gan  his  stage  work  as  call  boy  at  Fox's  Theatre  of  Varieties, 
now  the  Chestnut  Street  Theatre,  in  that  city.  When  he  was 
fifteen  years  old  he  was  treasurer  of  the  theatre.  When  he  was 
sixteen  he  established  a  dramatic  and  vaudeville  agency  at  808 
Walnut  street,  which  was  successful  from  the  first.  His  methods 
attracted  the  attention  of  W.  C.  Gilmore,  manager  of  the  Grand 
Central  Theatre,  Philadelphia,  and  he  was  instrumental  in  get 
ting  Mr.  Aarons  to  New  York,  where  he  began  business  in  the 
Gilsey  Building.  Among  Mr.  Aarons's  "discoveries"  at  this  time 
was  Bessie  Clayton,  now  Mrs.  Julian  Mitchell,  whom  he  placed 
with  Hoyt's  "A  Trip  to  Chinatown"  company.  Soon  after  this 
J.  M.  Hill  gave  Mr.  Aarons  the  management  of  the  Standard 
Theatre,  New  York,  and  Albert  Bial  intrusted  him  with  the  book 
ing  of  all  the  big  acts  at  the  Koster  &  Bial  Music  Hall.  For  a 
season  Mr.  Aarons  leased  Herrmann's  Theatre  and  presented 


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vaudeville  there.  He  also  leased  the  Bon  Ton  Theatre,  in  Jer 
sey  City,  and  for  a  time  was  manager  of  Oscar  Hammerstein's 
roof  garden,  over  his  Manhattan  Opera  House,  in  West  Thirty- 
fourth  street,  New  York,  which  later  became  the  home  of  Koster 
&  Bial.  When  Hammerstein  built  the  Victoria  he  engaged  Mr. 
Aarons  to  represent  him  in  Europe,  and  for  two  years  he  en 
gaged  such  celebrities  as  Yvette  Guilbert,  Cleo  de  Merode  and 
Fregoli  for  seasons  in  this  country.  At  about  this  time  Mr. 
Aarons  took  over  the  lease  of  Krause's  Music  Hall,  on  West 
Thirty-fourth  street,  and  named  it  the  Savoy  Theatre.  It  has 
remained  one  of  New  York's  first-class  playhouses  since  that 
time.  He  produced  the  musical  play,  "Mam'zelle  'Awkins,"  the 
book  of  which  was  written  by  Richard  Carle  and  the  music  by 
Mr.  Aarons.  This  was  Mr.  Carle's  first  libretto.  In  this  play, 
which  met  with  conspicuous  success,  Josephine  Hall  was  fea 
tured.  Miss  Hall  is  now  Mrs.  Aarons.  At  the  zenith  of  his  ca 
reer  Mr.  Aarons's  health  broke  down,  and  for  about  five  years 
he  was  forced  to  rest.  In  May,  1906,  he  took  "The  Pink  Hus 
sar,"  under  the  name  of  "His  Honor  the  Mayor,"  to  the  New 
York  Theatre  and  made  a  successful  musical  comedy  out  of 
what  had  been  a  failure.  When  Klaw  &  Erlanger  planned  their 
advanced  vaudeville  they  selected  Mr.  Aarons  as  the  most  able 
judge  of  foreign  acts,  and  in  1907  he  made  a  three  months'  Eu 
ropean  trip  for  that  firm.  In  November,  1907,  Mr.  Aarons  pro 
duced  "Yama,"  a  musical  comedy,  at  the  Walnut  Street  Theatre, 
Philadelphia.  Mr.  Aarons's  office  address  is  1402  Broadway,  New 
^ork. 

ABARBANELL,  Miss  Lena: 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  Berlin  February  3, 1880,  where 
her  father  was  a  conductor  of  concerts  and  orchestras,  and  where 
she  first  sang  in  public  when  she  was  only  seven  years  old.  At  the 
age  of  sixteen  she  made  her  first  appearance  as  an  actress  at  the 
New  Theatre,  Berlin,  playing  many  parts,  and  making  her  first 
success  as  Hedvig  Ekdal  in  "The  Wild  Duck,"  by  Ibsen.  She- 
then  went  into  opera,  and  before  she  was  eighteen  years  old 
sang  many  parts  in  Koenigsberg,  Prussia,  often  singing  nightly, 
Sundays  included,  for  months  together.  The  experience  gained 
thus  secured  her  an  engagement  at  the  Royal  Berlin  Opera 
House,  where  she  played  "Fledermaus"  over  one  hundred  times. 
In  Vienna  several  operas,  including  "Bruder  Straubiger,"  by 
Max  Essher,  and  "Wiener  Frauen,"  by  Lochar,  were  composed 
for  her.  She  first  sang  character  songs  at  the  Ueberbrettel 
Theatre  in  Berlin,  and  while  singing  in  Vienna  was  engaged  by 
Heinrich  Conried  for  both  the  Irving  Place  Theatre  and  the 


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Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New  York.  She  made  her  Ameri 
can  debut  in  "Fruehlingsluft,"  of  which  "The  Spring  Chicken" 
was  an  adaptation.  Devoting  herself  to  the  study  of  the  Eng 
lish  language,  she  appeared  as  the  prima  donna  in  "The  Student 
King,"  the  fall  of  1906,  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York,  under 
the  management  of  Henry  W.  Savage.  The  season  of  1907-8  she 
played  the  title  role  in  "The  Merry  Widow." 

ABBOTT,  Miss  Bessie  (Pickens) : 

Prima  donna,  was  born  at  Riverside,  New  York,  in  1878, 
and  is  a  descendant  of  the  famous  Pickens  family  of  South  Caro 
lina,  whose  members  distinguished  themselves  in  the  Revolution 
ary  War,  in  battling  for  the  Confederacy  and  in  the  making  of 
the  New  South.  Her  grandfather  was  for  many  years  United 
States  Ambassador  at  St.  Petersburg.  With  her  sister,  Jessie, 
she  was  reared  in  luxury,  and  the  aptitude  both  displayed  for 
vocal  and  instrumental  music  was  fostered  by  special  education 
in  voice  culture  and  banjo  and  guitar  playing.  Their  father's 
death,  however,  left  them  in  such  straitened  circumstances  that 
they  were  forced  to  turn  to  account  the  talent  which  they  had 
displayed  at  charity  benefits  and  the  drawing-room  entertain 
ments  of  their  friends.  Going  to  New  York,  they  obtained  a 
place  in  the  chorus  of  Augustin  Daly's  "The  Foresters"  com 
pany  at  his  theatre.  They  attracted  the  attention  of  Edward  E. 
Rice,  and  he  engaged  them  for  a  singing  specialty  in  his  pro 
duction  of  "1492"  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1894.  In 
1895  the  sisters  appeared  with  Mr.  Rice's  "Little  Christopher" 
company,  also  at  the  Garden  Theatre.  They  made  up  as  street 
waifs  and  sang  popular  ballads  to  the  accompaniment  of  their 
own  banjos,  guitars  and  mandolins.  Miss  Bessie  Abbott,  how 
ever,  aspired  to  grand  opera  and  in  May,  1897,  she  went  to 
Paris  to  study.  December,  1901,  she  made  her  debut  on  the 
operatic  stage  as  Juliet  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet."  Her  success  was 
instantaneous.  For  several  seasons  after  this  she  was  the  prima 
donna  at  the  Grand  Opera,  Paris.  In  the  winter  of  1906  she 
returned  to  her  native  land  and  first  appeared  with  the  New 
York  Symphony  Orchestra  at  Carnegie  Hall,  New  York  City. 
After  singing  at  several  concerts  she  joined  the  Metropolitan 
Opera  company. 

ABELES,  Edward  S.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  studied  for  the 
law.  Deciding  on  a  stage  career,  he  obtained  an  engagement  to 
play  small  parts  and  made  his  first  success  at  Palmer's  Theatre, 
New  York,  as  Lanthrop  Page  in  "Alabama,"  November  2,  1891. 


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He  afterward  played  there  in  "Jim  the  Penman,"  "A  Broken 
Seal,"  "Col.  Carter  of  Cartersville,"  "A  Modern  St.  Anthony," 
and  "Lady  Windermere's  Fan."  For  successive  seasons  he  was 
with  "Charley's  Aunt,"  and  "My  Friend  from  India."  In  1897 
he  joined  the  New  York  Casino  company  and  appeared  there  in 
"The  Telephone  Girl."  He  also  played  in  "In  Gay  Paree,"  "The 
Sprightly  Romance  of  Marsac,"  "The  Girl  with  the  Green  Eyes" 
with  Miss  Clara  Bloodgood,  in  which  he  scored  a  success  as  the 
Floorwalker;  in  "Under  Two  Flags,"  and  as  Simpson  in  "The 
Dictator"  with  William  Collier,  playing  the  part  in  London  the 
season  of  1905.  He  then  was  seen  as  Henry  Straker  in  "Man 
and  Superman."  The  season  of  1906-7  he  became  a  star,  achiev 
ing  a  genuine  success  as  Montague  Brewster  in  "Brewster's  Mil 
lions,"  which  he  continued  to  play  the  season  of  1907-8.  Mr. 
Abeles  married  Miss  Lottie  Mortimer,  a  skirt  dancer,  who  has 
since  retired  from  the  stage. 

ABINGDON,  William  I.  (William  Lepper) : 

Actor,  was  born  at  Towchester,  Northamptonshire,  England, 
May  2, 1862.  He  was  educated  at  a  private  school  and  began  busi 
ness  as  a  clerk  in  a  bank.  The  fascination  of  the  footlights  caused 
him  to  resign  when  he  was  nineteen  years  old  and  join  a  the 
atrical  stock  company  to  play  utility  parts,  and  he  made  his 
first  appearance  in  Belfast,  Ireland,  in  1881.  For  two  years  he 
"roughed"  it  in  the  English  provinces  and  then  attracted  the 
notice  of  Wilson  Barrett,  with  whom  he  played  juvenile  parts  in 
"Lights  o'  London,"  "Romany  Rye,"  "The  Silver  King,"  etc.  In 
1887  he  made  his  first  appearance  in  London  at  the  Princess 
Theatre,  where  he  remained  for  two  years.  In  December,  1889. 
lie  began  a  long  engagement  at  the  Adelphi  Theatre,  creating 
leading  heavy  roles  in  "The  Silver  Falls,"  "London  Day  by  Day," 
"The  English  Rose,"  "The  Lost  Paradise,"  "The  Fatal  Card," 
"The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me,"  "Flying  Colours,"  and  "Captain 
Kettle."  Leaving  there  he  went  to  the  Shaftesbury  Theatre  for 
the  leading  part  in  "Handfast,"  and  after  this  he  appeared  as 
Laurent  in  the  first  performance  of  "Therese  Raquin,"  and  as 
Hailma  Eckdal  in  "The  Wild  Duck."  After  this  he  played  lead 
ing  roles  in  numerous  farcical  comedies  at  the  Vaudeville  Thea 
tre.  In  1898  he  joined  John  Hare  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  play 
ing  Bertie  Burnside  in  "The  Old  Jew,"  and  Captain  Hawtree  in 
a  revival  of  "Caste."  After  playing  at  His  Majesty's  Theatre 
with  Olga  Nethersole  in  1900  he  starred  at  the  Olympic  Theatre 
as  Apollyon  in  "Pilgrim's  Progress,"  and  as  Lord  Nelson  in  a 
drama  by  Robert  Buchanan.  He  then  was  seen  as  Jim  the  Pen 
man  in  a  revival  of  that  play,  and  as  Ward  Cross  in  "The  Idler" 


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in  1902.  He  created  the  part  of  Lord  Jeffries  in  "Sweet  Nell  of 
Old  Drury,"  and  was  the  Professor  Moriarity  during  the  long 
run  of  "Sherlock  Holmes"  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre.  He  made  his 
first  appearance  in  America  in  1903,  playing  leading  parts  with 
Amelia  Bingham  in  "The  Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson,"  "The  Climbers," 
and  "A  Modern  Magdalen."  Returning  to  London  in  1905,  he 
was  seen  in  support  of  Mrs.  Brown  Potter  at  the  Savoy  Theatre, 
and  afterward  as  a  leading  member  of  Beerbohm  Tree's  com 
pany  at  His  Majesty's  Theatre.  In  1906  he  was  seen  again  in 
New  York,  playing  in  "Gallops"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre.  In  the 
fall  of  1906  he  played  Mark  Tremblett  in  Alfred  Sutro's  "The 
Price  of  Money,"  with  W.  H.  Crane,  at  the  same  theatre.  The 
season  of  1907-8  Mr.  Abingdon  appeared  with  Miss  Amelia  Bing 
ham  in  "A  Modern  Lady  Godiva."  In  May,  1906,  Mr.  Abingdon 
married  Bijou  Fernandez,  daughter  of  Mrs.  E.  L.  Fernandez, 
a  New  York  theatrical  agent.  He  is  an  expert  cricket  player 
and  fond  of  rowing.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs,  New  York. 

ACKERMAN,  Miss  Irene: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  and  educated  at  Rut 
gers  College  there.  She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  as  a 
child  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre  in  1879,  and  for  several  years 
acted  in  stock  companies.  She  was  the  manager  of  the  Or- 
pheum  Theatre,  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  for  two  years.  Her  great 
est  successes  were  made  as  Mercedes  in  "Monte  Cristo,"  and  in 
"The  Gold  Mine,"  written  by  herself.  Miss  Ackerman  is  now 
the  editor  of  The  Union,  and  writes  much  for  magazines  and 
newspapers.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Professional  Woman's 
League,  the  Press  Club,  the  New  Century  Study  Club  and  the 
Actors'  Church  Alliance.  Her  address  is  101  West  Seventy-fifth 
street,  New  York  City. 

ADAMS,  Miss  Suzanne  (Mrs.  Leo  Stern) : 

Prima  donna  soprano,  was  born  at  Cambridge,  Mass.  Her 
voice  gave  such  promise  that  after  studying  with  Boston  and 
New  York  teachers  she  went,  in  1890,  to  Paris,  determined  to 
win  fame  on  the  grand  opera  stage.  M.  Jacques  Bouhey  was  her 
instructor  in  singing,  and  M.  Plugrie  trained  her  in  acting.  She 
made  her  debut  in  January,  1894,  at  the  Grand  Opera,  Paris,  as 
Juliet  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet."  She  remained  at  the  Grand  Opera 
for  the  next  three  years,  appearing  as  Gilda  and  Marguerite 
and  in  other  light  soprano  roles.  In  1879  she  sang  for  two 
seasons  at  Nice,  where  she  was  heard  as  Marguerite  of  Navarre 
in  "Les  Huguenots."  In  1898  she  was  engaged  by  Maurice  Grau 
and  sang  a  season  at  Covent  Garden,  where  she  appeared  as 


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Juliet,  Marguerite,  Micsela,  Eurydice  and  Donna  Elvira  with 
much  success.  She  sang  at  the  first  state  concert  of  that  season 
at  Buckingham  Palace,  and  with  Jean  and  Edouard  de  Reszke 
at  a  private  concert  before  Queen  Victoria  at  Windsor  Castle. 
She  returned  to  her  native  land  with  Mr.  Grau  in  1899  and  sang 
with  his  company  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House  until  he  re 
linquished  its  management  the  various  roles  in  which  she  had 
achieved  success  abroad.  She  left  the  company  when  Mr.  Con- 
ried  became  director  and  began  singing  in  grand  opera  abroad. 
The  sea.son  of  1907-8  she  appeared  in  vaudeville  in  America. 
Miss  Adams  was  married  to  Leo  Stern,  an  English  'cellist,  in 
London  in  1898. 

ADE,  George: 

Author  and  playwright,  was  born  February  9,  1866,  at  Kent- 
land,  Ind.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  Indiana  and  was 
graduated  from  Purdue  University,  Lafayette,  Ind.,  in  1887,  with 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science.  He  engaged  in  newspaper 
work,  first  at  Lafayette  and  later,  for  ten  years  (from  1890  to 
1900),  in  Chicago  as  a  special  writer  on  The  Daily  News  and 
The  Record  (now  The  Record-Herald).  His  first  book,  "Artie," 
a  collection  of  sketches  in  the  Western  vernacular,  appeared  in 
1896,  and  was  followed  in  the  succeeding  ten  years  by  several 
others.  From  1896  to  1898  he  was  dramatic  editor  of  The  Chi 
cago  Record.  His  first  play  was  "The  Sultan  of  Sulu,"  for  which 
the  music  was  written  by  Alfred  G.  Wathall,  of  Chicago.  It  was 
first  produced  March  11,  1902,  at  the  Studebaker  Theatre,  Chi 
cago.  It  ran  for  twenty-six  weeks  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New 
York  City.  "Peggy  from  Paris,"  his  second  play,  also  musical, 
was  produced  at  the  Studebaker  Theatre,  Chicago,  January  24, 
1903.  The  music  was  by  William  Loraine.  This  ran  sixteen 
weeks  in  Chicago,  fifteen  in  Boston  and  eleven  in  New  York 
City.  "The  County  Chairman,"  a  political  comedy  drama  in  four 
acts,  produced  by  Henry  W.  Savage  at  South  Bend,  Ind.,  in  Sep 
tember,  1903,  followed.  After  a  ten  weeks'  season  in  Chicago 
"The  County  Chairman"  was  sent  to  Wallack's  Theatre,  New 
York  City,  in  November,  1903,  where  it  remained  until  the  fol 
lowing  October.  Since  September,  1904,  it  has  been  played  each 
season  by  two  companies.  "The  Sho-Gun,"  a  comic  opera,  with 
music  by  Gustav  Luders,  was  Mr.  Ade's  next  production.  It  was 
produced  at  Milwaukee  in  April,  1904,  by  Henry  W.  Savage.  "The 
College  Widow,"  Mr.  Ade's  next  comedy,  was  produced  at  Wash 
ington,  D.  C.,  by  Henry  W.  Savage  in  September,  1904,  and 
opened  a  week  later  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York,  where 
it  ran  thirty-eight  weeks.  It  was  played  the  second  season  by 


8  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

two  companies,  and  the  third  season  by  three  companies.  "The 
Bad  Samaritan,"  another  comedy,  produced  at  Washington,  D.  C., 
September  5,  1905,  was  withdrawn  as  a  failure.  His  "Just  Out 
of  College,"  a  three-act  farce,  opened  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  Oc 
tober  1,  1905,  and  played  two  seasons.  "Marse  Covington,"  a 
one-act  play,  produced  at  The  Lambs  Club  in  1906,  was  after 
ward  taken  into  the  vaudeville  theatres  by  Edward  J.  Connelly 
and  company  with  success.  Early  in  1907  May  Irwin  produced 
his  one-act  play,  "Mrs.  Peckham's  Carouse."  "Artie  "  a  four-act 
comedy  by  Mr.  Ade,  was  produced  in  Chicago,  and  afterward  at 
the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  October  28,  1907.  Mr.  Ade  is  a 
member  of  The  Lambs.  When  in  New  York  he  lives  at  the  Hol 
land  House.  His  summer  home  is  Hazelden  Farm,  Brook,  Ind. 

AIKEN,  Frank  Eugene: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston,  August  30,  1840.  He  was  edu 
cated  at  the  public  schools  in  that  city,  first  appearing  on  the 
stage  under  the  management  of  George  H.  Wyatt,  his  uncle. 
Later  he  became  leading  man  with  the  Boston  Stock  Company 
and  at  Mrs.  John  Drew's  Arch  Street  Theatre,  Philadelphia. 
Prior  to  the  great  Chicago  fire  of  1871  he  became  manager  of 
Wood's  Museum  and  Hooley's  Theatre  there,  and  in  1873  started 
the  Aiken  Theatre,  starring  his  own  company  for  fifteen  years. 
His  first  marked  success  was  as  the  Earl  in  "Little  Lord  Faunt- 
leroy,"  later  receiving  recognition  as  support  with  Frank 
Mayo  in  "Pudd'nhead  Wilson"  until  Mayo's  death.  He  then  sup 
ported  Maude  Adams  in  "The  Little  Minister."  He  was  in  Mrs. 
Gilbert's  company  until  that  lady's  death.  Recently  he  has  been 
supporting  John  Drew.  His  permanent  address  is  The  Players, 
New  York. 

ALBANI,  Madame  (Mrs.  Marie  Louise  Emma  Cecile  Gye) : 

Grand  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  near  Montreal,  Canada, 
November  1,  1852,  being  the  daughter  of  Joseph  Lajuennesse,  a 
musician.  She  was  educated  at  the  Convent  of  the  Sacred  Heart, 
Montreal,  and  studied  singing  with  Dupret  and  Benoist  in  Paris, 
and  Lamperti  in  Milan.  She  made  her  first  appearance  as  Arlina 
in  "La  Sonnambula"  at  Messina,  Sicily,  in  1871,  since  which  she 
has  ranked  as  one  of  the  foremost  prima  donnas  of  the  world. 
Her  chief  successes  have  been  won  in  "Faust,"  "Lucia  di  Lam- 
mermoor,"  and  "Lohengrin."  Her  home  is  in  London,  England. 

ALBATJGH,  John  W. : 

Actor  and  manager,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  September 
30,  1837,  being  the  son  of  John  W.  and  Elizabeth  (Peters)  Al- 
baugh.  He  made  his  first  stage  appearance  February  1,  1855. 


WHO' 8    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE  9 

at  the  Baltimore  Museum  as  Brutus  in  "Brutus;  or,  The  Fall 
of  Tarquin."  His  first  regular  engagement  followed,  it  being  at 
the  Holliday  Street  Theatre,  Baltimore,  under  the  management 
of  John  T.  Ford.  In  1859  he  became  leading  man  and  manager 
of  the  stock  company  at  the  Gaiety  Theatre,  Albany,  N.  Y.  He 
made  his  first  appearance  in  New  York  City  in  1865  in  support 
of  Charles  Kean  at  the  Broadway  Theatre.  In  1866  he  married 
Miss  Mary  Mitchell,  a  sister  of  Maggie  Mitchell,  the  actress,  and 
starred  for  a  season.  He  became  manager  of  the  Olympic  Thea 
tre,  St.  Louis,  in  1868,  and  of  the  Trimble  Opera  House,  Albany, 
in  1870.  He  was  a  partner  of  Ben  de  Bar  in  the  management 
of  the  St.  Charles  Theatre,  New  Orleans,  in  1870;  manager  of 
the  Leland  Opera  House,  Albany,  1873-81,  and  manager  of  the 
Holliday  Street  Theatre,  Baltimore,  1878-91.  He  was  also  sole 
proprietor  of  the  New  Lyceum,  Baltimore,  which  he  built  in  1890. 
In  1878  he  played  a  star  engagement  under  Edgar  &  Fulton  in 
Daly's  Theatre,  New  York,  appearing  as  Louis  XI.  Mr.  Albaugh 
built,  in  1895,  and  for  three  years  managed  the  Lafayette  Square 
Opera  House,  Washington,  D.  C.,  and  was  sole  lessee  and  man 
ager  of  Albaugh's  Grand  Opera  House,  Washington,  D.  C.,  from 
1884  to  1894.  His  last  appearance  on  the  stage  was  as  Shylock 
at  the  Lyceum,  Baltimore,  in  December,  1899.  His  home  is  at 
Long  Branch,  N.  J. 

ALBAUGH,  John  W.,  Jr.: 

Actor  and  manager,  was  born  in  New  York  City  in  1867, 
being  the  son  of  Mary  Mitchell  and  John  W.  Albaugh.  He 
made  his  first  stage  appearance  in  May,  1877,  when  he  was  ten 
years  old,  at  the  Leland  Opera  House,  Albany,  N.  Y.,  his  per 
formance  consisting  of  a  hornpipe  danced  between  acts.  In  the 
same  year  Mr.  Albaugh  played  child  roles  in  "William  Tell," 
"Nick  o'  the  Woods,"  and  "Black-Eyed  Susan."  He  then  went 
to  school,  and  after  completing  his  education  at  college  joined 
Lawrence  Barrett's  company,  with  which  he  remained  three  sea 
sons.  In  1887  he  went  to  Baltimore  and  became  manager  of  the 
Lyceum  Theatre.  He  remained  in  that  capacity  for  nearly  thir 
teen  years,  for  three  years  conducting  a  stock  company  in  which 
he  was  manager,  stage  manager  and  leading  juvenile.  In  1900 
he  gave  up  the  managerial  end  of  the  theatre  to  devote  himself 
entirely  to  acting.  One  of  his  most  successful  roles  since  then 
has  been  as  Frank  Austin  in  "Colorado."  After  "Colorado"  Mr. 
Albaugh  played  the  juvenile  and  leading  parts  in  several  im 
portant  New  York  productions,  including  "Captain  Molly,"  "The 
Girl  with  the  Green  Eyes"  with  Clara  Bloodgood,  "The  Little 
Gray  Lady,"  etc.  In  Mrs.  Le  Moyne's  revival  of  Browning's 


10  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

"Blot  on  the  'Scutcheon"  he  played  the  Earl  of  Mertoun.  In 
July,  1904,  he  began  a  tour  of  the  vaudeville  houses  with  Miss 
Olive  May  in  Grant  Stewart's  one-act  playette,  "The  Inspector 
from  Kansas."  He  has  also  played  such  characters  as  Pierre 
in  "The  Two  Orphans,"  and  Little  Billee  in  "Trilby."  In  1888 
he  married  Miss  Marie  Castner,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  In  March, 
1904,  they  separated  and  were  divorced  in  1907.  Mr.  Albaugh 
and  Miss  Olive  May  were  married  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  on  July 
9,  1907. 

ALBEE,  Edward  F. : 

Manager,  was  born  in  Boston  in  1860.  His  apprenticeship  in 
show  life  was  passed  beneath  the  circus  tent,  and  from  1876  to 
1883  he  traveled  with  numerous  shows.  In  the  latter  year  he 
was  engaged  by  B.  F.  Keith.  During  the  first  four  years  of  his 
employment  with  this  manager,  Mr.  Albee  passed  his  summers 
with  the  Doris  Circus,  and  in  1887  was  secured  exclusively  by 
Mr.  Keith.  He  has  since  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
B.  F.  Keith  interests,  having  been  made  general  manager  of 
these  enterprises  in  1891,  which  position  he  holds  at  the  present 
time.  Mr.  Albee  is  also  proprietor  of  the  Keith  Theatre  in 
Providence,  which  was  given  him  in  1900  as  a  testimonial  of 
the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  his  employer.  Mr.  Albee's 
New  York  address  is  1193  Broadway. 

ALEXANDER,  George  (George  Samson) : 

Actor  and  English  manager,  was  born  in  Reading,  England, 
June  19,  1858.  He  made  his  first  professional  appearance  at  the 
Theatre  Royal,  Nottingham,  in  September,  1879,  playing  juvenile 
parts.  He  joined  the  company  of  the  late  Sir  Henry  Irving  in 
1881,  and  afterward  was  under  the  management  of  Hare  and 
Kendal  at  the  St.  James  Theatre,  London.  He  came  to  this 
country  with  Irving  in  1884-5,  playing  Faust  and  Macduff.  In 
1889  he  went  into  management  at  the  Avenue  Theatre,  London, 
and  m  1891  he  became  lessee  of  the  St.  James  Theatre,  where 
he  has  produced  many  famous  plays,  among  them  being  "Lady 
Windermere's  Fan,"  "The  Second  Mrs.  Tanqueray,"  "The  Pris 
oner  of  Zenda,"  "The  Importance  of  Being  in  Earnest,"  "If  I 
Were  King,"  and  "His  House  in  Order.''  His  address  is  57 
Bond  street,  London. 

ALLEN,  Charles  Leslie: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  in  1830.  His  father  was 
Samuel  Alfred  Allen,  who  held  a  government  position  in  Wash 
ington,  D.  C.,  and  Boston,  Mass.,  and  his  mother  Abigail  Gates 


WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE  11 

Burbeck.  As  a  member  of  the  Aurora  Dramatic  Club,  of  Bos 
ton,  and  before  he  was  twenty-one,  Mr.  Allen  played  many  im 
portant  parts,  and  as  an  amateur  he  spoke  the  last  words  on 
the  stage  of  Old  Drury,  as  the  Federal  Street  Theatre,  of  Boston, 
was  last  called,  they  being  at  the  end  of  "A  Nabob  for  an  Hour," 
in  which  he  enacted  Sam  Hobbs.  This  was  in  May,  1852,  at  a 
benefit  given  for  the  members  of  the  National  Theatre  company, 
of  Boston.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  Mr.  Allen  adopted  the  stage 
as  a  profession,  making  his  first  appearance  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  in 
1852,  as  a  servant  in  "Simpson  &  Co.,"  under  the  management 
of  George  C.  Howard.  His  character  delineations  attracted  the 
attention  of  Edmon  S.  Conner,  who  engaged  him  in  1853  for 
the  Green  Street  Theatre,  Albany.  Here  he  first  enacted  Bailie 
Nicol  Jarvie  in  "Rob  Roy."  After  playing  such  roles  as  Mon 
sieur  Tourbillon  in  "Pet  of  the  Petticoats"  with  Miss  Maggie 
Mitchell,  and  Peter  in  "The  Octoroon"  with  Miss  Kimberly,  he 
went  to  the  Boston  Theatre,  where  he  remained  many  years  as 
the  principal  old  man  and  character  actor  in  the  stock  company, 
supporting  Edwin  Booth,  Forrest,  Jefferson  and  the  stars  of  the 
70's  and  80's.  He  was  the  original  Derrick  there  in  "Rip  Van 
Winkle,"  and  was  the  creator  of  the  Judge  in  "Kit,  the  Arkan- 
saw  Traveler."  Mr.  Allen  was  in  the  company  of  the  National 
Theatre,  Washington,  D.  C.,  in  the  seasons  of  1864,  1865  and 
1866,  being  the  original  Burleigh  in  Mrs.  Lander's  "Elizabeth," 
Moneypenny  in  "The  Long  Strike,"  and  Old  Eccles  in  "Caste." 
Here  he  also  played  Polonius  to  Edwin  Forrest's  Hamlet  and 
Kent  in  "King  Lear."  His  first  pronounced  success  in  New 
York  was  as  Old  Rogers  in  "Esmeralda"  at  the  Madison  Square 
Theatre,  when  his  daughter,  Miss  Viola  Allen,  made  her  initial 
appearance  in  the  title  role.  Mr.  Allen  was  for  four  seasons 
in  the  support  of  John  Drew,  and  has  also  played  Sir  Toby 
Belch  with  Modjeska  and  Miss  Marlowe.  Mr.  Allen  played  David 
Chapin  in  "The  Stepsister,"  by  Charles  Klein,  produced  at  the 
Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  October  14,  1907. 

ALLEN,  Miss  Louise  (Mrs.  William  Collier)  : 

Was  born  in  i\ew  York  and  made  her  first  appearance  at 
Niblo's  Garden  as  Bessie  in  "Around  the  World  in  Eighty  Days" 
in  1885.  She  also  played  Pepita  in  "Matthias  Sandorf"  at  the 
same  theatre.  She  was  seen  in  "Mazulnm;  or,  The  Night  Owl" 
at  the  Academy  of  Music,  New  York,  and  in  1889  was  in  "The 
Spider  and  the  Fly"  at  the  Windsor  Theatre.  The  season  of 
1890  she  was  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York,  in  "Dr.  Bill." 
She  was  married  to  William  Collier,  the  comedian,  and  for  four 
years  appeared  with  him  in  a  variety  of  plays.  For  a  time  she 


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was  with  the  Weber  and  Fields  company,  and  the  season  of 
1906-7  she  was  with  Lew  Fields  in  "About  Town."  She  has 
recently  done  specialties  in  the  vaudeville  houses. 

ALLEN,  Miss  Viola  (Mrs.  Peter  Duryea) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Huntsville,  Ala.,  October  27,  1869,  her 
father  being  C.  Leslie  Allen,  the  actor.  Miss  Allen  was  educated 
in  the  schools  of  Boston,  at  Wyckham  Hall  in  Toronto,  and 
finally  in  New  York  City.  Although  it  was  not  the  purpose  of 
her  parents  that  she  should  adopt  the  stage  as  a  profession,  she 
had  early  been  schooled  by  her  father.  When  she  was  fifteen 
years  old  her  debut  came  about  unexpectedly.  Miss  Allen'a 
father  was  appearing  in  "Esmeralda,"  with  Miss  Annie  Russell 
in  the  title  role,  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre.  Owing  to  ill 
ness  Miss  Russell  left  the  cast,  and  William  Seymour,  the  stage 
manager,  suggested  that  Miss  Viola  Allen  should  be  able  to  fill 
the  role.  While  appearing  as  Esmeralda  Miss  Allen  attracted 
the  attention  of  John  McCullough,  who  engaged  her  for  such 
rOles  as  Virginia  in  "Virginius,"  Desdemona  in  "Othello,"  Par- 
thenia  in  "Ingomar,"  and  Julia  in  "The  Gladiator."  Her  next 
engagement  was  with  Tommaso  Salvini,  with  whom  she  played 
most  of  the  Shakespearian  and  other  classic  heroines,  including 
Desdemona,  Cordelia,  Juliet  and  the  wife  in  "La  Morte  Civile." 
Later  she  was  selected  by  Lawrence  Barrett  for  the  role  of  Mil 
dred  for  his  production  of  Browning's  "Blot  on  the  'Scutcheon." 
Then  followed  an  engagement  as  leading  lady  at  the  Boston  Mu 
seum,  where  she  created  the  parts,  in  America,  of  Mrs.  Brrol  in 
"Little  Lord  Fauntleroy,"  and  Gertrude  Ellingham  in  Bronson 
Howard's  "Shenandoah."  At  this  time,  too,  she  played  in  "Sweet 
Lavender"  and  in  a  revival  of  old  comedies  and  other  plays.  For 
the  joint  starring  tour  of  Joseph  Jefferson  and  William  Florence 
in  "The  Rivals"  and  "The  Heir  at  Law,"  Miss  Allen  was  engaged 
for  the  roles  of  Lydia  Languish  and  Cicely  Homespun.  In  1892 
she  appeared  with  a  special  company  in  Bronson  Howard's  "Aris 
tocracy,"  and  the  following  season  became  leading  lady  of  the 
Empire  Theatre  company,  New  York  City,  where  she  was  espe 
cially  successful  in  "Liberty  Hall,"  "The  Masqueraders,"  "Sow 
ing  the  Wind,"  "The  Conquerors,"  and  "Under  the  Red  Robe." 
In  1898  Miss  Allen  withdrew  from  the  Empire  company  to  star 
as  Glory  Quayle  in  "The  Christian,"  by  Hall  Caine,  under  the 
management  of  Liebler  &  Co.  In  1900  she  played  Dolores  in  "In 
the  Palace  of  the  King."  In  1900  also  Miss  Allen  appeared  for 
a  few  special  performances  as  Julia  in  "The  Hunchback."  Then 
followed  Hall  Caine's  "The  Eternal  City,"  in  which  Miss  Allen 
appeared  as  Roma.  Under  the  management  of  her  brother,  C.  W. 


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Allen,  a  series  of  Shakespearian  revivals  was  projected  by  Miss 
Allen  in  1903,  beginning  with  "Twelfth  Night,"  in  which  she 
was  seen  as  Viola,  and  this  was  followed  the  next  season  by  an 
elaborate  presentation  of  "The  Winter's  Tale,"  in  which  she  as 
sumed  the  roles  of  Hermione  and  Perdita.  The  series  was  in 
terrupted  in  1905  by  Clyde  Fitch's  play,  "The  Toast  of  the 
Town."  The  season  of  1907-8  she  starred  in  "Irene  Wycher- 
ley."  Miss  Allen  was  married  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  on  August 
16,  1905,  to  Peter  E.  C.  Duryea,  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  and  New 
York.  Her  residence  is  46  West  Forty-sixth  street. 

ALTER,  Miss  Lottie: 

Actress,  the  daughter  of  Frederick  Pernal  Alter,  was  born 
in  La  Crosse,  Wis.  She  was  educated  at  St.  Mary's  Institute, 
Milwaukee,  and  afterward  studied  at  the  Chicago  Conservatory. 
She  made  her  first  appearance  in  a  juvenile  opera  company  at 
Langham's  Opera  House,  Englewood,  111.,  April,  1886,  playing 
Yum-Yum  in  "The  Mikado,"  to  the  Nanld-Poo  of  Miss  Virginia 
Earle.  While  at  the  Chicago  Conservatory  Miss  Alter  had  ap 
peared  as  an  "extra  lady"  in  many  of  the  Booth,  Barrett,  Mod- 
jeska,  and  Robson  and  Crane  productions,  and  on  leaving  the 
convent  in  1888  she  obtained  her  first  professional  engagement, 
appearing  with  Miss  Vernona  Jarbeau  in  "Starlight"  on  August 
18,  1888,  in  Minneapolis.  The  next  two  years  she  played  Jennia 
Wilson,  the  waif,  in  "Lost  in  New  York."  Beginning  October 
22,  1891,  Miss  Alter  played  Savilla  in  Klaw  &  Erlanger's  first 
production  of  "The  Country  Circus"  at  the  Academy  of  Music, 
New  York  City,  and  remained  with  the  organization  two  years. 
In  1903  she  played  Wilbur's  Ann  at  the  Schiller  Theatre,  Chi 
cago,  in  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me."  Then,  with  Charles  Froh- 
man's  Empire  Theatre  company,  she  played  in  "Poor  Girls"  and 
"The  Rival  Candidates."  For  two  years,  1895-6,  Miss  Alter  was 
leading  lady  with  the  Late  Joseph  Jefferson,  playing  Dot  in  "The 
Cricket  on  the  Hearth,"  and  Meenie  in  "Rip  Van  Winkle."  She 
was  also  the  Flora  Campbell  in  the  first  production  of  "The 
Bonnie  Brier  Bush"  in  Chicago.  Miss  Alter  has  also  played  in 
"Red,  White  and  Blue,"  and  with  Rose  Coghlan  in  a  vaudeville 
sketch.  She  was  leading  woman  with  the  late  Roland  Reed  for 
two  seasons.  Other  engagements  were  in  "Hearts  Are  Trumps," 
"To  Have  and  to  Hold,"  a  year  with  Miss  Henrietta  Crosman 
as  Mollie  in  "Mistress  Nell,"  and  Audrey  in  "As  You  Like  It"" 
at  the  Belasco  Theatre,  New  York  City,  in  February,  1902.  Then 
followed  two  seasons  with  Ezra  Kendall  in  "The  Vinegar  Buyer/' 
In  the  spring  of  1906  she  played  Ella  Delahay  in  the  revival  of 
"Charley's  Aunt"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York. 


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ALVAREZ,  Signer  (Albert  Raymond  Gouron)  : 

Grand  opera  singer,  was  born  in  Bordeaux,  France.  He  made 
his  first  appearance  in  Lyons  in  1892  and  has  since  been  recog 
nized  as  a  leading  tenor  in  grand  opera,  having  sung  important 
r<31es  for  several  seasons  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New 
York.  His  home  is  83  Boulevard  Berthier,  Paris,  France. 

ANDERSON,  Miss  Mary  (Mrs.  Antonio  F.  de  Navarro) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Sacramento,  Cal.,  July  28,  1859.  The 
following  spring  her  parents  moved  to  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  her 
father  joined  the  Confederate  Army.  He  died  at  Mobile,  Ala., 
in  1863,  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine,  when  Mary  was  only  four 
years  old.  Besides  the  girl,  he  left  one  son,  Joseph  Anderson, 
six  years  her  senior.  When  Mary  was  eight  years  old  her  mother 
married  Dr.  Hamilton  Griffin,  of  Louisville,  who  had  been  a  Con 
federate  Army  surgeon.  The  girl  was  educated  at  the  Ursuline 
Convent  and  the  Academy  of  the  Presentation,  at  Louisville. 
Her  stepfather,  who  was  a  Shakespearian  student,  fostered  her 
natural  histrionic  ambition,  and  at  the  age  of  ten  Mary  began 
to  read  Shakespeare.  She  was  taken  to  see  Edwin  Booth  act, 
and  when  only  just  in  her  'teens  announced  her  determination 
to  become  an  actress.  To  encourage  her  talent  Dr.  Griffin  let  her 
give  recitals  at  his  home  and  obtained  for  her  instruction  from 
Charlotte  Cushman.  Father  Anthony  Miller,  a  Franciscan  priest, 
taught  her  elocution,  and  she  had  ten  lessons  from  Vandenhoff, 
the  public  reader,  to  fit  her  for  a  stage  career.  Miss  Anderson's 
first  public  appearance  was  as  Juliet  at  the  Louisville  Theatre, 
in  November,  1875,  at  a  trial  matinee.  She  was  then  only  sixteen 
years  old,  but  her  performance  attracted  much  attention.  In 
January,  1876,  she  appeared  for  a  week  at  the  Louisville  Thea 
tre,  supported  by  Macauley's  stock  company,  playing  Evadne, 
Juliet  and  in  "The  Hunchback."  Engagements  with  stock  com 
panies  in  St.  Louis  and  other  cities  followed.  Then  John  Mc- 
Cullough  gave  her  leading  parts  in  San  Francisco  and  she  made 
a  tour  of  the  South  under  the  management  of  John  T.  Ford,  of 
Baltimore.  In  the  fall  of  1876  she  first  appeared  at  the  head  of 
her  own  company.  She  made  her  debut  in  New  York  on  No 
vember  12,  1877,  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  and  played  Par- 
thenia,  Juliet,  Evadne,  Meg  Merrilies  and  Bianca.  She  was  then 
eighteen  years  old.  The  following  year  she  played  another  sea 
son  at  the  Fifth  Avenue,  after  which  she  made  her  first  trip  to 
Europe,  her  chief  desire  being  to  visit  Stratford-on-Avon  and 
Verona.  She  played  Galatea,  one  of  her  favorite  parts,  for  the 
first  time  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  September  26,  1881,  and  the  next  year 
was  at  Booth's  Theatre,  New  York.  In  1883  Miss  Anderson 


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went  abroad,  and  on  September  18  made  her  first  stage  appear 
ance  in  England  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  London,  as  Parthenia. 
She  played  a  continuous  season  of  ten  months,  and  her  success 
both  professionally  and  socially  was  unprecedented.  She  did 
not  again  play  in  her  native  country  until  1888,  when  she  pro 
duced,  in  November,  "A  Winter's  Tale"  at  Palmer's  Theatre, 
New  York.  She  previously  played  it  one  hundred  consecutive 
nights  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  London.  Miss  Anderson  suffered 
a  severe  illness  in  March,  1889,  and  was  compelled  to  cancel  all 
her  American  engagements  and  disband  her  company.  In  April 
she  sailed  for  Europe,  being  ordered  to  take  a  prolonged  rest. 
She  then  abandoned  the  stage  and  resisted  every  inducement  to 
return.  Miss  Anderson  was  married  to  Antonio  P.  de  Navarro 
at  St.  Mary's  Chapel,  Holly  Place,  Hempstead,  England,  June 
17,  1890.  She  has  two  sons.  Her  home  is  at  Court  Farm, 
Broadway,  Warwickshire,  England. 

ANGELES,  Miss  Aimee  (Mrs.  George  Considine) : 

Actress  and  dancer,  born  February  6, 1880,  is  the  daughter  of 
Alex.  Zanfretta,  once  a  well-known  circus  clown.  When  merely  a 
child  Miss  Angeles  made  her  first  stage  appearance  with  the  com 
panies  managed  by  the  late  Chas.  Hoyt  and  playing  his  comedies. 
She  was  a  clever  dancer,  and  principally  did  dancing  specialties. 
She  then  became  prominent  in  musical  comedies,  making  con 
spicuous  successes  in  a  dance  with  James  T.  Powers  in  "A  Run 
away  Girl"  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York;  in  "The  Man  from 
China"  and  in  "The  Rollicking  Girl."  She  was  also  in  Joseph 
Weber's  company  for  a  season.  Miss  Angeles  became  the  wife 
of  George  Considine,  a  well-known  sporting  man  and  proprietor 
of  the  Hotel  Metropole,  New  York,  September  30,  1906. 

ANGLIN,  Miss  Margaret: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Ottawa,  Canada,  April  3, 1876,  her  father 
being  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons  at  the  time  and  her 
birth  occurring  in  the  Speaker's  Chamber  of  the  House  of  Par 
liament.  She  was  educated  in  a  French  convent  school  and, 
having  met  with  success  as  an  amateur  reader,  when  she  was 
seventeen  years  old,  against  the  wishes  of  her  parents,  she  went 
to  New  York  City  and  entered  Nelson  Wheatcroft's  Dramatic 
School,  being  one  of  the  first  pupils.  Charles  Frohman  had 
promised  that  he  would  engage  for  the  Empire  Theatre  stock 
company  the  four  pupils  who  acquitted  themselves  most  credita 
bly  at  the  public  performance  of  the  school,  and  Miss  Anglin 
determined  to  be  one  of  the  four.  Her  acting,  when  the  time 
came,  so  pleased  Mr.  Frohman  that  he  at  once  engaged  her  for 


WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE  17 

the  part  of  Madeline  West  in  "Shenandoah,"  in  which  she  made 
her  first  professional  appearance  at  the  Academy  of  Music,  New 
York,  in  the  fall  of  1894.  After  a  year  on  the  road  Miss  Anglin 
became  a  member  of  James  O'Neill's  company,  1896-7,  playing 
Ophelia  in  "Hamlet,"  Virginia  in  "Virginius,"  Julie  de  Morte- 
mar  in  "Richelieu,"  and  Mercedes  in  "Monte  Cristo."  The  fol 
lowing  season  she  played  the  part  of  Meg  in  "Lord  Chumley" 
with  E.  H.  Sothern,  and  organized  a  company  for  a  tour  of 
Lower  Canada,  playing  Rosalind  in  "As  You  Like  It,"  and  in 
"Christopher,  Jr.,"  and  "The  Mysterious  Mr.  Bugle."  In  the  fall 
of  1898  Miss  Anglin  was  engaged  by  Richard  Mansfield  as  his 
leading  woman  in  his  production  of  "Cyrano  de  Bergerac."  Her 
playing  of  Roxane  established  her  as  one  of  the  foremost  emo 
tional  actresses  of  the  day,  and  Charles  Frohman  at  once  en 
gaged  her  as  leading  woman  of  the  Empire  Theatre  stock  com 
pany,  New  York.  In  that  company  the  leading  roles  in  "Mrs. 
Dane's  Defence,"  "Brother  Officers,"  "Lady  Ursula,"  "The  Liars," 
"Lord  and  Lady  Algy,"  and  Ophelia  in  "Hamlet,"  served  to  win 
further  laurels  for  her.  For  four  seasons  she  played  in  San 
Francisco  with  Mr.  Miller's  stock  company.  The  season  of  1905-6 
Miss  Anglin  was  starred  under  the  management  of  the  Shuberts  in 
a  dramatization  of  Wilkie  Collins's  "The  New  Magdalen,"  called 
"Zira,"  which  ran  at  the  Princess  Theatre,  New  York  City,  from 
September  to  the  middle  of  January,  and  in  Boston  until  June. 
The  fall  of  1906  she  co-starred  with  Henry  Miller  in  William 
Vaughn  Moody's  "The  Great  Divide,"  which  opened  at  the  Prin 
cess  Theatre,  New  York,  on  October  3.  The  play  ran  through  the 
seasons  of  1906-7-8. 

ANSPACHER,  Louis  Kaufman : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  March  1,  1878.  He 
was  educated  at  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  the  Post- 
Graduate  School  of  Philosophy,  and  at  Columbia  University. 
He  received  the  degree  of  A.B.  in  1897,  and  that  of  A.M.  three 
years  later.  In  1904  his  tragedy  in  blank  verse,  "Tristan  and 
Isolde,"  was  published.  Giving  up  writing  for  the  time,  he 
devoted  himself  to  lecturing,  addressing  numerous  clubs  in  New 
York  on  philosophy  and  literature.  In  1906  "The  Embarrass 
ment  of  Riches,"  a  three-act  problem  play,  in  which  his  wife, 
Kathryn  Kidder,  was  seen  in  the  leading  role,  was  produced  at 
Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York.  Mr.  Anspacher  married  Kathryn 
Kidder,  the  actress,  in  1905.  His  home  is  at  Tuckahoe,  N.  Y. 

ARBTJCKLE,  Maclyn: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Texas  in  1867.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  Bowie  County  when  he  was  twenty  years  old,  and  on  ae- 


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count  of  his  minority  he  had  to  take  an  examination  in  open 
court,  which  he  passed.  Finding  the  practice  of  law  unprofita 
ble,  Mr.  Arbuckle  spent  his  time,  while  waiting  for  clients,  in 
the  study  of  Shakespeare.  His  first  appearance  on  the  stage, 
however,  was  in  a  German  dialect  part  with  Peter  Baker  at  a 
Christmas  matinee  in  Shreveport,  La.,  in  1888.  He  there  made 
his  first,  and  probably  his  last,  conspicuous  failure.  Mr.  Ar 
buckle  then  played  heavy  parts  with  R.  D.  MacLean  and  Marie 
Prescott  for  three  seasons  and  then,  accepting  an  offer  from 
Charles  Frohman,  appeared  in  "The  Man  from  Mexico"  and 
several  other  productions.  A  period  with  T.  Daniel  Frawley's 
stock  company  in  San  Francisco  followed,  Mr.  Arbuckle  making 
pronounced  successes  as  Zouroff  in  "Moths,"  Jack  Dudley  in 
"The  Ensign,"  and  the  title  part  in  "The  Senator."  He  also 
played  in  "Why  Smith  Left  Home"  one  season  in  London.  Mr. 
Arbuckle  appeared  as  a  star  at  the  head  of  his  own  company 
in  the  season  of  1900-1  in  a  dramatization  of  Molly  Elliot  Sea- 
well's  story,  "The  Sprightly  Romance  of  Marsac,"  produced  at 
Washington,  D.  C.,  and  the  same  season  he  appeared  in  "Under 
Two  Flags."  When  Nat  Goodwin  produced  "The  Merchant  of 
Venice"  in  the  spring  of  1901  Mr.  Arbuckle  was  the  Antonio. 
He  appeared  as  the  O'Grady  in  the  revival  of  "Arrah-na-Pogue," 
and  played  Dumas  in  the  all-star  cast  of  Bellew  and  Miss  Man- 
nering's  "Lady  of  Lyons."  He  created  the  title  part  of  George 
Ade's  "The  County  Chairman,"  afterward  purchased  the  rights 
and  starred  for  two  seasons.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  played 
Sheriff  "Slim"  Hoover  in  "The  Round  Up." 

AKDEN,  Edwin  Hunter  Pendleton: 

Actor  and  playwright,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  on  Feb 
ruary  13,  1864.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  there 
until  he  was  sixteen  years  old,  when,  stirred  by  a  longing  for 
adventure,  he  went  to  the  West.  He  found  the  excitement  he 
sought,  for  he  was  by  turns  cowboy,  clerk,  politician,  newspaper 
reporter  and  theatrical  manager.  The  last  venture  struck  a  re 
sponsive  chord,  and  the  footlights  soon  lured  him  from  the  box 
office.  His  first  appearance  as  an  actor  was  made  in  Chicago  in 
1882  in  a  minor  part  with  the  Thomas  W.  Keene  company.  He 
played  in  stock  until  1885,  part  of  the  time  with  the  Boston 
Museum  company  and  with  the  Madison  Square  Theatre  com 
pany,  New  York.  While  acting  he  had  tried  his  hand  at  play 
writing,  and  in  1886  he  began  starring  in  melodramas  of  which 
he  was  the  part  or  sole  author.  "Eagle's  Nest,"  "Barred  Out," 
and  "Raglan's  Way"  were  among  the  most  successful  of  these. 
In  1895  he  was  a  member  of  William  H.  Crane's  company,  and 


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in  1896  he  created  the  part  of  Mason  Hix  in  "The  Governor  of 
Kentucky."  He  played  Oliver  West  in  the  original  production 
of  "Because  She  Loved  Him  So"  on  October  28,  1898,  at  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  and  in  August,  1899,  returned  to  starring  in 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  in  a  melodrama  called  "Zorah."  His  next 
important  engagement  was  with  Maude  Adams  in  Charles  Froh- 
man's  production  of  "L'Aiglon,"  in  which  he  played  Metternich 
and  won  the  commendation  of  the  critics.  The  season  of  1901-2 
he  was  seen  with  Sadie  Martinet  in  "The  Marriage  Game,"  and 
with  the  Bellew-Mannering  revival  of  "The  Lady  of  Lyons." 
The  season  of  1902-3  he  appeared  in  the  star  cast  of  "Romeo 
and  Juliet"  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New  York,  and  dur 
ing  the  summer  months  he  joined  the  Jane  Oaker  Stock  Com 
pany  in  Denver,  Colo.  That  of  1904-5  he  was  with  Bertha  Kalish 
in  "Fedora,"  playing  the  role  of  Louis,  and  the  following  year  ap 
peared  in  both  "The  House  of  Silence"  with  James  K.  Hackett, 
and  "The  Redskin,"  produced  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York. 
Mr.  Arden  entered  vaudeville  and  was  seen  in  his  one-act  sketch, 
"Captain  Velvet,"  during  1906-7-8.  On  June  24,  1906,  he  opened 
as  a  star  at  Power's  Theatre,  Chicago,  in  the  drama,  "Told  in 
the  Hills,"  then  produced  for  the  first  time.  He  is  a  member  of 
The  Lambs,  New  York. 

ARLISS,  George: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England,  where,  after  long  experience  in 
the  provinces,  he  first  attracted  attention  in  the  company  of 
Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell,  with  whom  he  appeared  in  this  country 
the  season  of  1901-2,  playing  Cayley  Drummey  in  "The  Second 
Mrs.  Tanqueray,"  and  the  Duke  of  St.  Olpherts  in  "The  Notori 
ous  Mrs.  Ebbsmith."  He  was  next  engaged  by  David  Belasco  to 
create  the  part  of  Zakkuri  in  "The  Darling  of  the  Gods,"  sup 
porting  Miss  Blanche  Bates.  The  season  of  1904-5  Mr.  Arliss 
joined  Mrs.  Fiske's  company,  playing  the  Baron  Steyme  in 
"Becky  Sharp,"  Raoul  Berton  in  "Leah  Kleshna,"  Count  Cho- 
teau  de  Rohan  in  "The  Rose,"  M.  d'Ancelor  in  "The  Eyes  of  the 
Heart,"  and  Sir  William  Cites-Darby  in  "The  New  York  Idea." 
The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  again  with  Mrs.  Fiske,  playing  Ulric 
Brendel  in  •'Rosmersholm." 

ARMSTRONG,  Paul: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  a  little  village  near  St.  Joseph,  Mo. 
After  trying  numerous  occupations  he  joined  the  staff  of  the 
Chicago  Record-Herald  and  for  some  years  followed  the  jour 
nalistic  profession,  in  the  meantime  turning  out  plays.  The  first 
of  his  work  to  attract  attention  was  a  one-act  sketch,  "Blue 


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Grass,"  tried  out  in  vaudeville  by  Willis  Sweatnam  and  later 
elaborated  into  a  four-act  play  which  was  produced  in  Philadel 
phia,  March,  1906,  by  Frank  Howe,  Jr.  Other  plays  by  Mr.  Arm 
strong  are  "Ann  La  Mont,"  first  produced  in  Virginia  by  a  stock 
company  and  afterward  used  as  a  starring  vehicle  for  Florence 
Roberts  in  the  West;  "The  Superstitions  of  Sue,"  which  was  un 
successful;  "Sierra,"  a  one-act  play,  produced  by  Nat  C.  Good 
win;  "The  Heir  to  the  Hoorah,"  which  toured  for  two  seasons, 
and  "Salomy  Jane,"  starred  in  during  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8 
by  Eleanor  Robson. 

ARMSTRONG,  Sydney  (Mrs.  W.  G.  Smyth) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  where  her  father, 
A.  T.  Wells,  before  the  Civil  War,  was  one  of  the  leading  dry 
goods  merchants  of  the  South.  He  lost  his  wealth  in  that  strug 
gle  and  went  West,  where  he  amassed  another  fortune  only 
to  lose  it.  His  daughter  had  been  so  successful  in  amateur 
theatricals  that  when  it  became  necessary  for  her  to  provide  for 
herself  she  turned  to  the  stage.  She  began  in  a  stock  company 
in  Illinois,  her  first  part  being  Esther  Eccles  in  "Caste."  Her 
next  engagement  was  with  the  stock  company  at  the  Front  Street 
Theatre,  Baltimore,  where  she  played  roles  that  ranged  from 
Lady  Gay  Spanker  to  Iphigenia.  At  this  time  she  attracted  the 
attention  of  Dion  Boucicault,  who  engaged  her  to  play  Arte 
O'Neil  in  "The  Shaughraun."  This  was  followed  by  her  appear 
ance  in  dual  roles  in  "Hoodman  Blind,"  and  the  leading  r61es 
in  "The  Still  Alarm"  and  "The  Burglar."  She  then  joined 
Charles  Frohman's  forces  and  became  the  leading  lady  in  his 
stock  company,  playing  the  leading  roles  in  "Men  and  Women" 
and  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me."  In  1893  she  became  the  lead 
ing  lady  of  the  Empire  Theatre  stock  company.  On  April  19, 
1897,  she  was  married  to  W.  G.  Smyth,  then  manager  of  the 
William  Collier  and  other  companies.  After  her  marriage  she 
retired  from  the  stage.  Her  home  is  240  West  Forty-ninth 
street,  New  York  City. 

ARONSON,  Rudolph: 

Manager  and  composer,  began  his  theatrical  career  as  man 
ager  of  the  Metropolitan  Concert  Hall,  New  York,  which  was  on 
the  site  of  the  present  Broadway  Theatre.  After  successfully 
catering  to  the  amusement  loving  public  there  for  several  years 
he  originated  and  built  the  Casino  Theatre,  Thirty-ninth  street 
and  Broadway,  New  York,  and  became  its  first  manager.  It  was 
this  enterprise  which  brought  him  prominently  to  the  attention 
of  the  public  and  the  theatrical  world  as  a  manager  and  pro- 


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ducer  of  musical  entertainments.  On  this  theatre  he  operated 
the  first  roof  garden  in  America,  and  he  may  justly  be  regarded 
as  the  originator  of  that  popular  summer  institution  in  this 
country.  Under  Mr.  Aronson's  management  the  Casino  became 
the  recognized  home  of  light  and  comic  opera  in  New  York  and 
the  incubator  of  such  entertainments  in  America.  It  was  there, 
under  his  management,  that  the  first  American  production  of 
"Erminie"  was  made  and  the  record  run  for  such  entertainments 
established.  Under  Mr.  Aronson's  management  such  stars  as 
Lillian  Russell,  Francis  Wilson,  De  Wolf  Hopper  and  Jefferson 
de  Angelis  first  attained  popularity.  Mr.  Aronson  has  composed 
many  popular  songs  and  more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  pieces 
for  the  orchestra.  Of  late  years  he  has  spent  much  of  his  time 
in  Europe,  engaged  in  booking  musical  stars  for  this  country. 
His  home  is  227  Riverside  Drive,  New  York. 

ARTHUR,  Miss  Julia  (Mrs.  Benjamin  P.  Cheney,  Jr.) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Hamilton,  Ontario,  Canada,  May  3, 
1869,  and  was  christened  Ida  Lewis.  Her  father  was  Thomas  J. 
Lewis.  Her  mother  was  an  accomplished  Shakespearian  reader, 
and  Ida  Lewis,  at  the  age  of  eleven,  played  Zamora  in  "The 
Honeymoon"  in  private  theatricals  at  her  father's  home.  She 
made  her  first  professional  appearance,  under  the  name  of  Julia 
Arthur,  in  1881,  with  the  Daniel  Bandmann  Shakespeare  reper 
toire  company,  and  a  year  later,  when  only  thirteen  years  old, 
she  was  a  leading  woman,  playing  Juliet,  Portia,  Ophelia,  and 
Lady  Anne  in  "Richard  III."  After  three  years'  hard  work  with 
the  Bandmann  company  Miss  Arthur  went  to  Germany  for  a 
year's  study.  Then  she  joined  a  repertoire  company  in  Califor 
nia  and  played  leading  parts  in  "Jim  the  Penman,"  "Captain 
Swift,"  "The  Colleen  Bawn,"  "Arrah-na-Pogue,"  "The  Silver 
King,"  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin,"  "The  Still  Alarm,"  "Peril,"  "Di 
vorce,"  and  "The  Private  Secretary."  Miss  Arthur  made  her 
first  marked  success  as  the  Queen  in  "The  Black  Masque"  in 
New  York  in  February,  1892.  The  opening  night  made  her 
famous,  and  a  few  weeks  later  she  was  engaged  as  leading 
woman  with  A.  M.  Palmer's  stock  company,  remaining  with  the 
organization  for  one  year  and  playing  Jeanne  in  "The  Broken 
Seal,"  Letty  Fletcher  in  "Saints  and  Sinners,"  Lady  Windermere 
in  "Lady  Windermere's  Fan,"  and  acting  in  "Mercedes,"  a  short 
play  by  Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich.  In  1893  Miss  Arthur  became  a 
member  of  the  late  Sir  Henry  Irving's  company  as  leading 
woman  next  to  Miss  Ellen  Terry,  and  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre, 
London,  she  played  Elaine  in  "King  Arthur,"  Sophia  in  "Olivia," 
Rosamond  in  "Becket,"  and  Imogene  in  "Cymbeline,"  which  was 


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called  her  best  role.  She  returned  to  America  with  the  Irving 
company  in  1896,  but  organized  her  own  company  on  October  14 
of  that  year  and  produced  a  dramatization  of  Mrs.  Frances  Hodg 
son  Burnett's  novel,  "A  Lady  of  Quality,"  taking  the  part  of 
Clorinda  Williams.  She  appeared  as  Parthenia,  in  her  own  pro 
duction  of  "Ingomar"  October  2,  1898,  and  produced  "As  You 
Like  It"  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  on  November  28  of 
the  same  year.  Miss  Arthur  was  married  to  Mr.  Cheney  in 
February,  1898. 

ARTHUR,  Paul: 

Actor,  was  born  in  this  country  and  made  his  first  appear 
ances  in  the  companies  of  Edwin  Booth  and  Lotta.  He  was  in 
"Cinderella  at  School"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New  York, 
in  1883,  and  four  years  later  he  toured  in  "Held  by  the  Enemy." 
He  afterward  played  in  "The  Candidate,"  and  "Jane."  In  1892 
Mr.  Arthur  played  Sheridan  in  "Aristocracy,"  and  the  following 
year  in  "Squirrel  Inn,"  "Shadows,"  and  "Hal  o'  the  Hall."  After 
touring  in  "The  Sleepwalker"  he  joined  the  New  York  Casino 
company  and  appeared  in  "The  Passing  Show,"  and  "The  Little 
Trooper."  The  seasons  of  1896-7  he  acted  in  England  and  then 
played  in  "A  Night  Session"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New 
York.  Returning  to  England  he  played  several  seasons  there, 
becoming  a  member  of  the  Haymarket  Theatre  company  in  1901. 
Since  then,  except  for  an  American  tour  with  Mrs.  Langtry  in 
1903,  he  has  acted  entirely  in  London.  Mr.  Arthur's  address  is 
11  Savoy  Mansions,  Savoy  street,  Strand,  London,  England. 

ASHLEY,  Miss  Minnie  (Mrs.  William  Astor  Chanler) : 

Singer  and  dancer,  was  born  in  Fall  River,  Mass.,  in  1875, 
the  name  of  her  parents  being  Whitehead.  Her  father  and 
mother  separated,  and  her  mother,  going  to  Boston,  took  her 
daughter  with  her.  There  Mrs.  Whitehead  became  Mrs.  Ashley, 
and  her  daughter  took  the  same  name.  Miss  Ashley  made  her 
first  public  appearance  as  an  entertainer  at  a  Washington's 
Birthday  children's  festival  in  the  old  Music  Hall.  She  became 
solo  dancer  at  these  festivals,  which  were  yearly  affairs.  Miss 
Ashley  danced  for  the  entertainment  of  guests  at  summer  re 
sorts  in  the  White  Mountains  until  she  decided  to  become  a 
professional  stage  dancer.  Her  first  engagement  was  in  Bos 
ton  in  1894  in  the  chorus  of  Edward  E.  Rice's  production  of 
"1492."  In  1895  she  made  her  first  Broadway  appearance  in 
Rice's  production  of  "Little  Christopher,"  still  being  in  the 
chorus.  Her  first  engagement  outside  the  chorus  was  in  a  musi 
cal  comedy,  "The  Chorus  Girl,"  in  1898.  She  was  engaged  in 


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1899  by  J.  C.  Duff  to  play  Mollie  Seamore  in  "The  Geisha,"  and 
Dolly  Wemyss  in  "The  Circus  Girl."  In  1899  she  played  Gwen 
dolyn  in  "Prince  Pro  Tern.,"  and  in  the  same  year  Iris  in  "The 
Greek  Slave."  In  following  seasons  she  was  in  "San  Toy"  and 
"The  Country  Girl,"  produced  at  Daly's  Theatre.  In  1901  she 
was  married  to  William  Sheldon,  a  stepbrother  of  Walter  Jones, 
the  comedian.  In  1903  she  obtained  a  divorce  from  him,  and  on 
December  3  of  that  year  was  married  to  William  Astor  Chanler, 
a  great-grandson  of  John  Jacob  Astor.  After  her  marriage  she 
retired  from  the  stage. 

ASHWELL,  Miss  Lena: 

Actress,  was  born  in  1872.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Cap 
tain  Pocock,  of  the  British  Navy,  who  afterward  became  a 
Church  of  England  clergyman.  Miss  Ashwell  was  educated  in 
Toronto,  and  studied  music  in  Switzerland  and  at  the  Royal 
Academy  of  Music,  London.  When  she  was  eighteen  years  old 
her  elocutionary  efforts  attracted  the  attention  of  Ellen  Terry, 
who  advised  the  girl  to  abandon  vocalism  for  the  study  of  dra 
matic  art.  Miss  Ashwell  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  pro 
fessional  stage  at  the  Grand  Theatre,  Islington,  London,  in  1891, 
playing  a  small  part  in  "The  Pharisee."  She  then  appeared  with 
George  Alexander  in  "Lady  Windermere's  Fan,"  and  afterward 
with  the  late  Arthur  Dacre  and  Amy  Roselle  in  "Man  and 
Woman."  In  1903  Miss  Ashwell  played  Elaine  in  "King  Arthur" 
with  Sir  Henry  Irving  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  London,  and 
three  years  later  she  played  in  "Richard  III."  In  1899  she  was 
with  Wilson  Barrett  in  "Man  and  His  Makers,"  and  in  "Wheels 
Within  Wheels"  at  the  Court  Theatre.  Miss  Ashwell  created  the 
title  part  in  Henry  Arthur  Jones's  "Mrs.  Dane's  Defence"  in 
1900,  and  she  was  leading  woman  with  Sir  Henry  Irving  at 
Drury  Lane  when  he  produced  "Dante."  Her  performance  in 
"The  Resurrection,"  by  Tolstoi,  at  Her  Majesty's  Theatre,  Lon 
don,  led  to  her  recognition  as  one  of  the  greatest  of  English 
actresses.  Her  more  recent  successes  have  been  in  "The  Darling 
of  the  Gods,"  "Leah  Kleschna,"  which  she  played  at  Wyndham's 
Theatre,  London,  throughout  the  season  of  1904-5,  and  "The 
Shulamite,"  1905-6.  The  following  season  she  made  a  tour  of 
the  United  States  in  the  same  play.  The  season  of  1907-8  she 
starred  in  London  in  Anthony  P.  Wharton's  "Irene  Wycher- 
ley, "  produced  at  her  theatre,  the  Kingsway.  Miss  Ashwell's 
London  address  is  18  Cowley  street,  Westminster. 

ATWOOD,  Miss  Lorena  E.  (Mrs.  Clarence  F.  Arper) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  and  educated  there. 
She  made   her   first   appearance   on   the   stage   in   1895   in   "His 


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Natural  Life,"  and  subsequently  was  seen  in  repertoire  with 
McKee  Rankin  and  with  Milton  Nobles  on  tour.  For  five  years 
she  appeared  in  stock  in  San  Francisco,  playing  such  roles  as 
Trilby,  Lady  Alice  in  "The  Runaway  Wife,"  Portia  in  "The 
Merchant  of  Venice,"  etc.  The  season  of  1903-4  she  played 
Madge  Larabee  in  "Sherlock  Holmes"  with  Herbert  Kelcey  and 
Effie  Shannon,  and  two  years  later  was  seen  with  Kyrle  Bellew 
in  "Raffles."  Subsequently  she  was  seen  as  Merab  in  "The 
Shepherd  King"  with  Wright  Lorimer,  and  after  a  season  with 
the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre  Stock  Company  appeared  as  Mrs.  Wil- 
oox  in  "The  Talk  of  New  York"  December  3,  1907,  at  the  Knick 
erbocker  Theatre,  New  York.  Miss  Atwood  married  Clarence  F. 
Arper.  Her  address  is  Hotel  Seymour,  Forty-fifth  street,  New 
York  City. 

AUGARDE,  Adrienne: 

Actress,  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  the  chorus 
of  the  J.  W.  Turner  Opera  Company,  rising  gradually  on  tour 
to  prominent  parts.  She  went  to  London  the  following  year, 
joining  George  Edwardes's  "The  Duchess  of  Dantzic"  company, 
playing  the  leading  ingenue  role  at  its  opening  at  the  Lyric 
Theatre,  London,  in  1903.  Following  this  she  created  the  title 
role  in  "Lady  Madcap"  at  the  Prince  of  Wales  Theatre  in  1904. 
She  came  to  New  York,  appearing  in  "The  Duchess  of  Dantzic" 
with  the  original  English  company.  She  remained  in  the  United 
States  only  two  months  and  returned  to  London  to  assume  the 
title  part  in  "Little  Michus,"  produced  at  Daly's  Theatre,  1905. 
She  appeared  in  "See-See"  for  two  months  and  a  half,  and  then 
created  the  r61e  of  the  Princess  in  "The  New  Aladdin,"  pro 
duced  at  the  Gaiety  Theatre. 

BAIRD,  Dorothea  (Mrs.  H.  B.  Irving) : 

Actress,  the  daughter  of  John  Foster  Baird,  barrister-at-law, 
of  London,  England,  was  born  May  20,  1875.  After  experience 
as  an  amateur,  she  was  selected  by  the  late  George  du  Maurier, 
author  of  "Trilby,"  to  create  the  title  part  in  the  play  of  that 
name,  principally  because  she  closely  resembled  his  sketches  of 
the  heroine  of  his  novel.  Thus  she  made  her  first  professional 
appearance  as  Trilby  with  Beerbohm  Tree  at  the  Haymarket 
Theatre,  London,  in  1895,  and  was  at  once  accepted  as  an  ac 
complished  actress.  In  1896  she  was  married  to  Henry  Brodribb 
Irving,  elder  son  of  the  late  Sir  Henry  Irving.  Miss  Baird  has 
since  played  leading  parts  in  many  London  theatres,  the  most 
prominent  being  at  His  Majesty's  in  "A  Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,"  1900;  at  the  Garrick  in  "The  Wedding  Guest,"  1901,  and 


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under  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman,  at  the  Duke  of 
York's  Theatre,  as  Mrs.  Darling  in  "Peter  Pan,"  1904-5;  in 
"Nero"  at  His  Majesty's,  1906;  "Mauricette"  at  the  Lyric,  and 
"Paolo  and  Francisco."  The  season  of  1906-7  she  toured  this 
country  in  repertoire  with  her  husband.  Her  London  address 
is  1  Upper  Woburn  place,  Tavistock  square,  W.  C. 

BANGS,  John  Kendrick: 

Author  and  playwright,  was  born  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  May  27, 
1862,  being  the  son  of  Francis  N.  Bangs.  He  was  graduated  from 
Columbia  College  in  1883;  and  for  a  year  studied  law,  when 
he  became  editor  of  Life,  which  position  he  held  until  1888.  His 
first  book,  "Roger  Camerden,"  was  published  in  1886,  since  which 
he  has  written  many  well-known  humorous  books  and  short  sto 
ries.  Mr.  Bangs  edited  Harper's  Weekly  from  1898  to  1900,  and 
The  Metropolitan  Magazine  from  1902  to  1903.  He  then  edited 
Puck  until  May,  1905.  His  produced  plays  are  "The  Bicyclers," 
a  farce,  1898;  "Lady  Teazle,"  a  musical  version  of  "The  School 
for  Scandal,"  in  which  Miss  Lillian  Russell  starred  in  1905,  and 
"Tomorrowland,"  a  futurity  extravaganza,  produced  in  Balti 
more  early  in  1905  and  afterward  played  for  a  run  in  Boston, 
New  York  and  on  the  road  under  the  title  of  "The  Man  from 
Now."  Mr.  Bangs's  home  is  in  Maine. 

BARKER,  H.  Granville: 

Actor-manager  and  playwright,  was  born  in  London  in  1877 
and  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  1891.  Later  he 
joined  Sarah  Thome's  company  at  Margate,  remaining  with  her 
for  six  months,  and  then  appeared  with  Charles  Hawtrey  at  the 
Comedy  Theatre  and  in  the  provinces.  He  became  associated 
with  Ben  Greet,  touring  with  him  in  repertoire,  and  two  years 
later  joined  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell's  company,  playing  in  "The 
Canary."  In  1900  he  was  seen  in  "English  Nell,"  and  "Becky 
Sharp"  at  the  Prince  of  Wales  Theatre.  For  several  years  he 
was  connected  with  the  Stage  Society,  appearing  in  most  of 
Bernard  Shaw's  plays,  chiefly  "Candida,"  "Captain  Brassbound's 
Conversion,"  and  "Mrs.  Warren's  Profession."  In  1904  he  joined 
J.  E.  Vedrenne,  and  with  him  managed  the  Court  Theatre,  Lon 
don.  Mr.  Barker  is  the  author  of  "The  Voysey  Inheritance"  and 
"The  Marrying  of  Ann  Leete."  In  1906  he  married  Miss  Lillah 
McCarthy.  He  is  a  member  of  the  National  Liberal  Club,  Lon 
don. 

BARNABEE,  Henry  Clay: 

Comic  opera  comedian,  was  born  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  on 
November  14,  1833.  His  father,  Willis  Barnabee,  was  proprietor 


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of  the  leading  hotel  of  Portsmouth.  Henry  Clay  Barnabee  began 
his  career  as  a  clerk  in  a  dry  goods  store  in  that  town,  and  the 
only  way  he  was  able  to  gratify  his  longing  for  a  musical  career 
was  by  singing  in  the  village  church  choir.  At  an  early  age  he 
went  to  Boston  to  engage  in  the  dry  goods  business,  and  there 
he  became  a  member  of  the  Unity  Church  Quartet.  He  continued 
his  musical  training  by  concert  work  and  at  entertainments  of 
the  Mercantile  Library  Association,  an  organization  in  which 
many  prominent  actors  and  entertainers  received  their  early 
training.  His  work  with  this  association  (he  was  a  member  of 
its  amusement  committee)  became  so  marked  that  there  was  a 
large  demand  for  his  services  outside  the  city,  and  he  soon  at 
tained  such  prominence  that  he  devoted  considerable  time  to  con 
cert  and  monologue  performances  in  the  larger  cities  of  the 
Eastern  States,  although  still  maintaining  his  commercial  con 
nections.  A  serious  illness  during  the  Civil  War  prevented  him 
from  continuing  in  business,  and  in  1865  he  became  a  profes 
sional  entertainer.  He  made  his  debut  with  "Patchwork;  or, 
An  Evening  with  Barnabee,"  a  monologue,  which  he  gave  in  a 
tour  through  the  Northern  States  and  Canada.  A  year  later  he 
made  his  first  appearance  on  the  legitimate  stage  at  a  benefit 
performance  at  the  Boston  Museum,  playing  Toby  Twinkle  in 
"All  That  Glitters  Is  Not  Gold,"  Cox  in  "Box  and  Cox,"  and  sing 
ing  the  well-known  song,  "Simon  the  Cellarer."  Thereafter  he 
appeared  at  the  Boston  Theatre  in  such  parts  as  Aminidab  Sleek 
in  "The  Serious  Family,"  and  Henry  Dove  in  "Married  Life," 
and  sang  in  the  operettas,  "The  Two  Cadis"  and  "Sir  Marma- 
duke."  In  1870  he  organized  a  concert  company  and  toured  New 
England  and  the  Middle  and  Western  States.  In  1879  he  became 
a  member  of  the  Boston  Ideal  Opera  Company,  then  just  formed, 
and  became  one  of  the  star  performers  of  that  famous  organiza 
tion.  In  that  company  he  appeared  as  Sir  Joseph  Porter  in 
"Pinafore,"  Pasha  in  "Fatinitza,"  John  Wellington  Wells  in  "The 
Sorcerer,"  Lambertuccio  in  "Boccaccio,"  Florestan  in  "The  Bo 
hemian  Girl,"  Baillie  in  "The  Chimes  of  Normandy,"  the  Duke 
in  "Olivette,"  Abbe  Bridaine  in  "The  Musketeers,"  Lord  Allcash 
in  "Fra  Diavolo,"  Bunthorne  in  "Patience,"  the  Major-General 
in  "The  Pirates  of  Penzance,"  Bolero  in  "Girofle-Girofla,"  King 
Bobeche  in  "Bluebeard,"  Don  Japhet  in  "Giralda,"  Prince  Lo 
renzo  in  "Mascot,"  the  Marquis  in  "Fanchonette,"  and  Bruno  in 
"The  Daughter  of  the  Regiment."  In  1888  the  Boston  Ideal 
Opera  Company  was  dissolved,  and  the  more  famous  Bostonians 
were  organized,  Mr.  Barnabee  being  one  of  the  chief  promoters. 
It  was  as  one  of  the  stars  of  this  company  that  Mr.  Barnabee 
came  to  be  known  the  country  wide  as  the  dean  of  light  opera 


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singers  and  comedians  of  the  American  stage.  His  best  known 
and  most  popular  creation  with  this  company  was  the  Sheriff 
of  Nottingham  in  "Robin  Hood,"  De  Koven's  opera.  Other  parts 
he  played  while  the  Bostonians  were  in  existence  were  Marcas- 
sou  in  "The  Poachers,"  Lurcher  in  "Dorothy,"  Don  in  "Don  Pas- 
quale,"  Don  Quixote  in  "Don  Quixote,"  Chrysos  in  "Pygmalion 
and  Galatea,"  the  Governor  in  "The  Knickerbockers,"  the  Pro 
fessor  in  "The  Ogalallas,"  the  Elder  in  "The  Maid  of  Plymouth," 
La  Fontaine  in  "Prince  Ananias,"  Ezra  Stebbins  in  "In  Mexico," 
the  Duke  in  "The  Serenade,"  and  Rip  in  "Rip  Van  Winkle."  In 
1859  he  married  Miss  Clara  Warner,  daughter  of  Major  Daniel 
George  Warner,  of  Warner,  N.  H.  He  is  one  of  the  original 
members  of  the  Apollo  Club,  of  Boston,  and  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  of  Boston.  In  1905  the 
Bostonians,  which  for  several  years  had  been  going  down  hill, 
broke  up  as  a  company.  Since  then  Mr.  Barnabee  has  done  little 
on  the  stage,  save  for  a  few  vaudeville  performances. 

BARNES,  J.  H.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England  February,  1852,  and  made  his 
first  appearance  with  Sir  Henry  Irving  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre, 
London,  in  a  small  part  in  "The  Bells."  He  filled  many  provin 
cial  engagements  until  1S74,  when  he  came  to  the  United  States 
with  Adelaide  Neilson  as  leading  man  of  her  company.  In  1883 
he  reappeared  at  the  Lyceum,  in  London,  with  Mary  Anderson, 
playing  leading  man  in  "Ingomar"  and  in  all  her  repertoire.  He 
also  accompanied  her  on  her  tour  of  the  United  States.  He  was 
with  the  Kendals  in  1886  and  with  Grace  Hawthorne  in  1887.  In 
recent  years  he  played  with  Sir  Henry  Irving  at  the  London 
Lyceum,  and  accompanied  him  to  the  United  States  on  his  tours. 
In  1905  he  came  to  this  country  under  engagement  to  Charles 
Frohman.  The  fall  season  of  1906  he  was  in  the  cast  of  "The 
Hypocrites,"  by  Henry  Arthur  Jones,  produced  at  the  Hudson 
Theatre,  New  York.  He  has  written  a  quantity  of  verse,  includ 
ing  a  serious  poem,  "The  Mission  of  Judas,"  and  a  lament  on 
the  death  of  Queen  Victoria. 

BARRIE,  James  Matthew: 

Author  and  playwright,  was  born  at  Kirriemuir,  Scotland, 
in  1860  and  educated  at  Dumfries  and  Edinburgh  University.  He 
had  already  made  his  mark  as  a  novelist  when  his  first  play, 
"Walker,  London,"  was  produced  at  Toole's  Theatre,  London,  in 
1890.  The  following  year  he  married  Miss  Mary  Ansell,  an 
actress,  who  was  appearing  in  his  play.  Mr.  Barrie's  fame  as  a 
playwright  rests  largely  on  his  adaptations  of  his  own  novels. 


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Among  his  most  prominent  successes,  all  of  which  have  found 
favor  in  this  country,  are  "The  Professor's  Love  Story,"  written 
for  E.  S.  Willard  and  produced  in  1895;  "The  Little  Minister," 
produced  in  1897,  in  which  Miss  Maude  Adams  starred;  "Quality 
Street,"  in  which  she  starred  in  1902;  "The  Admirable  Crichton," 
presented  here  by  William  Gillette;  "Little  Mary,"  and  "Peter 
Pan,"  produced  in  London  in  1904  with  Miss  Nina  Boucicault 
in  the  title  role,  and  in  which  Miss  Adams  starred  here.  His 
latest  plays  are  "Pantaloon,"  and  "Alice  Sit-by-the-Fire,"  both 
played  by  Miss  Ethel  Barrymore  in  this  country;  "Josephine,"  a 
revue,  and  "Punch."  Mr.  Barrie's  principal  recreation  is  play 
ing  cricket. 

BARROWS,  James  0.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Copperopolis,  Cal.,  and  made  his  first  ap 
pearance  on  the  stage  as  a  "super"  at  the  California  Theatre,. 
San  Francisco.  He  afterward  played  small  parts  in  stock  com 
panies  in  that  city.  Coming  East  he  joined  the  Frohman  forces, 
remaining  with  the  same  management  over  ten  years,  during 
which  he  played  in  "Esmeralda,"  "The  Wife,"  "Shenandoah," 
"Men  and  Women,"  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me,"  "The  Coun 
cilor's  Wife,"  "The  Fatal  Card,"  etc.  He  was  with  the  late 
Richard  Mansfield  in  "Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde,"  and  with  Mrs. 
Fiske  in  "Featherbrain."  For  two  years  he  supported  W.  H. 
Crane,  and  in  1897  he  created  the  part  of  Squire  Bartlett  in 
"  'Way  Down  East."  He  was  seen  with  John  Drew  in  "On  a 
Summer's  Day,"  and  after  a  season  with  the  Castle  Square  Stock 
Company,  Boston,  he  played  in  "Brown's  in  Town,"  then  formed 
a  partnership  with  John  Lancaster,  with  whom  he  has  since 
played  in  vaudeville  houses. 

BARRYMORE,  Miss  Ethel: 

Actress,  on  both  her  father's  and  mother's  side  is  descended 
from  families  whose  names  are  noted  on  the  stages  of  two  con 
tinents.  The  daughter  of  the  late  Maurice  Barrymore  and  Geor- 
gina  Drew,  the  niece  of  John  Drew  and  the  sister  of  John  and 
Lionel  Barrymore,  she  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1878. 
The  first  recorded  appearance  on  the  stage  of  Miss  Ethel 
Barrymore  was  at  the  Empire  Theatre  on  September  23,  1895, 
when  she  played  the  role  of  Katherine  in  Henry  Guy  Carle- 
ton's  comedy,  "That  Independent  Young  Person,"  Miss  Maude 
Adams  and  John  Drew  also  being  in  the  cast.  The  following 
year  Miss  Barrymore  became  a  member  of  the  Empire  Theatre 
stock  company,  her  uncle,  John  Drew,  being  its  leading  man. 
Her  first  role  in  this  company  was  that  of  the  serving  maid  in 


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"Rosemary."  Following  this  she  played  Priscilla  in  "Secret 
Service,"  going  to  London  with  the  company  and  meeting  with 
such  favor  that  she  soon  became  as  well  known  at  the  recep 
tions  in  society  drawing-rooms  as  she  was  on  the  stage.  In  the 
fall  of  1897  she  was  engaged  by  Sir  Henry  Irving  and  played 
several  important  roles  in  his  productions,  her  work  in  "Peter 
the  Great"  calling  forth  especial  commendation.  At  this  time 
her  engagement  was  announced  to  Gerald  du  Maurier,  the  son 
of  the  author  of  "Trilby,"  who  had  played  in  the  American  tour 
of  Beerbohm  Tree's  company  in  1896.  This  engagement,  how 
ever,  like  a  previously  rumored  one  to  Laurence  Irving,  the  son 
of  Sir  Henry  Irving,  proved  to  be  without  foundation.  In  1900 
she  returned  to  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman  and  became 
a  star,  her  first  appearance  as  such  being  in  "Captain  Jinks." 
Her  success  in  this  stamped  her  as  a  worthy  successor  to  the 
honors  of  her  mother,  and  her  accomplishments,  aside  from  those 
displayed  on  the  stage,  opened  to  her  the  doors  of  the  homes  of 
many  of  the  best  known  New  York  City  families,  where  she  was 
received  as  a  social  equal.  "Captain  Jinks"  was  followed  by 
"Cousin  Kate"  at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New  York,  in  which  Miss 
Barrymore  made  another  personal  triumph.  At  the  beginning 
of  the  season  of  1905  she  appeared  in  "Sunday,"  which  had  a 
short  run.  In  May  Charles  Frohman  made  a  special  production 
of  Ibsen's  "A  Doll's  House"  for  her  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New 
York,  she  playing  the  role  of  Nora.  In  December  following  she 
opened  for  a  short  run  in  J.  M.  Barrie's  "Alice  Sit-by-the-Fire" 
at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New  York;  and  in  the  spring  of  1907 
was  seen  as  Mrs.  Jones  in  "The  Silver  Box"  at  the  Empire 
Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  appeared  in  "Her 
Sister." 

BARTON,  Miss  Grace: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  and  was  educated  at 
Syracuse  and  Utica.  She  made  her  first  appearance  in  "In  the 
Palace  of  the  King"  in  1900,  and  afterward  attracted  attention 
in  the  company  of  Miss  Amelia  Bingham,  who  introduced  her  to 
New  York  audiences.  The  following  season  she  was  with  Miss 
Rose  Coghlan,  with  whom  she  went  to  Europe.  Returning  to 
this  country,  she  made  a  success  as  Miss  Merriam  in  "Captain 
Jinks  of  the  Horse  Marines,"  and  also  as  Prossy  in  "Candida." 
The  season  of  1906  Miss  Barton  supported  William  J.  Kelley  in 
his  stock  company  at  the  Harlem  Opera  House,  New  York. 

BATEMAN,  Miss  Victory: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Philadelphia.  She  made  her  first  ap 
pearance  as  an  amateur  when  a  child,  with  the  Wheatly  Dra- 


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matic  Association  in  that  city,  in  "Rosedale."  Her  first  profes 
sional  appearance  was  as  Gertie  Hacket  in  "Romany  Rye,"  which 
she  played  for  three  seasons,  in  support  of  the  late  William  Ter- 
riss.  She  afterward  played  leading  parts  with  Louis  James  and 
Frederick  Warde.  In  1892  Miss  Bateman  supported  the  late  B.  J. 
Henley  and  Aubrey  Boucicault  in  "The  Favorite"  at  Stockwell's 
Theatre,  San  Francisco.  For  a  season  she  was  leading  woman 
at  the  Imperial  Theatre,  St.  Louis,  playing  Carmen,  Camille, 
Vera  in  "Moths";  Young  Mrs.  Winthrop,  Juliet,  Portia,  and 
Mercy  Baxter  in  "Caprice,"  in  which  she  made  her  greatest  suc 
cess.  She  created  the  part  of  Nora  Hanlon  in  the  English  melo 
drama  "Burmah  "  produced  in  Boston  in  1895,  and  she  was  also 
the  original  Dearest  in  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy."  In  the  sum 
mer  of  1906  Miss  Bateman  was  leading  woman  in  the  Bush 
Temple  Stock  Company  in  Chicago.  She  has  since  been  seen 
chiefly  in  stock  companies. 

BATES,  Miss  Blanche  (Mrs.  Milton  F.  Davis) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Portland,  Ore.,  in  1873.  Her  father  and 
mother,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  M.  Bates,  were  well  known  as  actors 
in  the  West  and  in  Australia,  her  father  being  manager  of  the 
Oro  Fino  Theatre  in  Portland  at  the  time  of  her  birth.  When 
she  was  three  years  old  the  family  moved  to  San  Francisco, 
where  she  was  educated.  Miss  Bates  made  her  first  appearance 
on  the  stage  at  a  benefit  for  L.  R.  Stockwell,  manager  of  Stock- 
well's  Theatre,  later  known  as  the  Columbia,  in  San  Francisco 
in  1894,  in  a  one-act  play,  by  Brander  Matthews,  called  "This 
Picture  and  That."  She  next  played  general  utility  parts  in  the 
company  of  T.  Daniel  Frawley  at  a  salary  of  about  twenty  dol 
lars  a  week.  Going  with  him  to  New  York,  they  were  engaged 
by  James  Neill  for  the  Giffin  and  Neill  company,  then  playing  in 
Denver,  Salt  Lake  City  and  Portland.  Miss  Bates's  salary  was 
thirty-five  dollars  a  week.  Mr.  Frawley  becoming  proprietor  of 
the  company,  Miss  Bates  was  advanced  first  to  leading  woman 
and  afterward  to  joint  star,  making  her  first  marked  success  in 
1895  as  Mrs.  Hillary  in  "The  Senator."  She  played  the  leading 
comedy  parts  in  "The  Railroad  of  Love,"  "Nancy  &  Co.,"  "The 
Last  Word,"  "The  International  Match,"  "The  Transit  of  Leo," 
"Sweet  Lavender,"  and  "Captain  Swift,"  As  Phyllis  in  "The 
Charity  Ball"  she  proved  herself  an  able  emotional  actress,  and 
after  playing  in  "The  Wife,"  "In  Spite  of  All,"  "The  Dancing 
Girl,"  and  "An  Enemy  of  the  King,"  she  won  a  success  as  Nora 
in  Ibsen's  "A  Doll's  House."  Miss  Bates  was  first  engaged  by 
Augustin  Daly  in  1898  and  played  Shakespearian  parts  with  his 
company.  After  another  short  starring  tour  with  Frawley  she 


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created  the  part  of  the  Countess  Mirtza  in  "The  Great  Ruby"  at 
Daly's  Theatre,  New  York,  but  resigned  from  the  company  after 
playing  the  part  only  twice.  Her  withdrawal  caused  much  news 
paper  comment.  Her  acting  in  this,  however,  obtained  for  her 
an  engagement  to  play  Miladi  in  Liebler  &  Co.'s  production  of 
"The  Musketeers,"  in  which  she  was  again  conspicuously  suc 
cessful.  She  first  appeared  under  the  management  of  David 
Belasco  at  his  New  York  Theatre  in  the  Japanese  one-act  play, 
"Madame  Butterfly."  Miss  Bates's  next  success  was  as  Cigarette 
in  Belasco's  production  of  "Under  Two  Flags."  Then  came  the 
Princess  Yo-San  in  "The  Darling  of  the  Gods,"  by  David  Belasco 
and  John  Luther  Long,  which  ran  through  two  seasons.  Her 
most  recent  success  is  in  the  star  part  of  The  Girl,  in  Belasco's 
drama  of  early  California  life,  "The  Girl  of  the  Golden  West," 
produced  in  the  fall  of  1905  at  the  Belasco  Theatre,  New  York. 
Miss  Bates  is  the  wife  of  Milton  F.  Davis,  a  Minnesota  man, 
first  lieutenant  in  the  First  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  who  was  gradu 
ated  from  West  Point.  She  lives  with  her  mother. 

BATIM,  Lyman  Frank: 

Playwright,  was  born  at  Chittenango,  N.  Y.,  May  15,  1856. 
He  was  educated  at  Syracuse  and  began  newspaper  work  in 
South  Dakota  in  1880.  He  is  the  author  of  many  books  for 
children.  His  produced  plays  are:  "Maid  of  Arran,"  New  York, 
1881;  "Matches,"  New  York,  1882;  "Kilmore,"  Syracuse,  1884; 
"Queen  of  Killarney,"  Rochester,  1885;  "The  Wizard  of  Oz,"  Chi 
cago,  1902,  and  "The  Woggle  Bug,"  Chicago,  1905.  Mr.  Baum 
married  at  Fayetteville,  N.  Y.,  Maud,  daughter  of  Matilda  Jos- 
lyn  Gage.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Press  Club,  the  New 
York  Athletic  Club  and  The  Players.  His  home  is  in  Chicago  in 
the  winter  and  at  Macatawa,  Mich.,  in  the  summer. 

BELASCO,  David: 

Playwright  and  manager,  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Cal., 
July  25,  1859.  He  was  graduated  from  Lincoln  College,  Califor 
nia,  in  1875.  His  first  play,  written  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  and 
acted  by  himself  and  his  friends,  was  entitled  "Jim  Black;  or. 
The  Regulator's  Revenge."  Mr.  Belasco  started  his  career  as  a 
call  boy  at  Baldwin's  Theatre,  San  Francisco,  and  in  1878  he  had 
become  its  stage  manager.  He  also  held  the  same  place  at  the 
Grand  Opera  House  and  the  Metropolitan  Theatre,  San  Fran 
cisco.  While  he  was  directing  stage  work  he  was  also  dramatiz 
ing  novels,  adapting  foreign  plays  and  doing  original  work. 
Something  like  a  hundred  plays  of  this  nature  were  produced 
with  varying  success.  In  1880  the  Mallory  Brothers  engaged 


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Mr.  Belasco  to  take  charge  of  their  productions  at  the  Madison 
Square  Theatre,  New  York.  It  was  there  that  he  gained  his 
first  pronounced  success  as  an  author  with  "May  Blossom"  in 
1884.  "La  Belle  Russe,"  "Valerie,"  and  "Hearts  of  Oak"  had 
already  had  prosperous  runs  in  New  York.  Mr.  Belasco  next 
went  with  Daniel  Frohman  to  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  taking  charge 
of  his  productions  in  1887.  Here  he  wrote  "Lord  Chumley," 
with  Henry  C.  De  Mille,  which  started  E.  H.  Sothern  on  his 
prosperous  career.  "The  Wife"  and  "The  Charity  Ball,"  written 
in  conjunction  with  Mr.  De  Mille,  followed  at  the  Lyceum  Thea 
tre,  and  "Men  and  Women,"  written  for  Charles  Frohman,  was 
produced  by  him  at  Proctor's  Twenty-third  Street  Theatre.  Fol 
lowing  this,  in  collaboration  with  Franklin  Fyles,  Mr.  Belasco 
wrote  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me,"  which  opened  the  Empire 
Theatre,  New  York.  "The  Heart  of  Maryland,"  written  by  Mr. 
Belasco,  was  produced  in  1895  and  was  the  means  of  starting 
Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  on  the  road  to  stardom.  In  1897  Mr.  Belasco 
produced  "The  First  Born,"  by  Francis  Powers,  and  the  follow 
ing  season  he  starred  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  in  his  own  version  of 
Berton  and  Simon's  "Zaza."  In  1899  he  produced  a  farcical 
comedy  entitled  "Naughty  Anthony,"  with  Miss  Blanche  Bates 
in  the  leading  role,  and  later  his  dramatization  of  John  Luther 
Long's  Japanese  story,  "Madame  Butterfly,"  in  which  Miss  Bates 
was  again  the  principal  figure.  On  April  16,  1900,  at  the  Gar- 
rick  Theatre,  London,  he  presented  Mrs.  Carter  in  "Zaza"  with 
great  success,  and  "Madame  Butterfly"  was  also  produced  at  the 
Duke  of  York's  Theatre,  repeating  its  American  success.  "Ma 
dame  Du  Barry,"  written  by  Mr.  Belasco,  was  produced  at  the 
New  National  Theatre,  Washington,  D.  C.,  December  12,  1901, 
and  on  December  25  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New  York.  "The 
Darling  of  the  Gods,"  a  drama  of  old  Japan,  written  by  Mr. 
Belasco  in  collaboration  with  John  Luther  Long,  was  produced 
at  the  Belasco  Theatre,  New  York,  in  the  following  year,  1902, 
with  Miss  Blanche  Bates  as  the  Princess  Yo-San.  "Sweet  Kitty 
Bellairs,"  written  by  Mr.  Belasco  and  founded  on  Egerton  Cas 
tle's  novel,  "The  Bath  Comedy,"  was  produced  at  the  Belasco 
Theatre,  New  York,  in  1903,  with  Miss  Henrietta  Crosman  in 
the  title  role.  Mr.  Belasco's  next  play,  produced  in  1905,  at  the 
Belasco  Theatre,  New  York,  was  "Adrea,"  a  classic  tragedy  of 
the  Byzantine  period,  written  in  collaboration  with  John  Luther 
Long.  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  played  the  principal  role.  In  Septem 
ber,  1904,  Mr.  Belasco  produced  "The  Music  Master,"  with  David 
Warfield  in  the  character  of  Herr  von  Barwig,  at  the  Belasco 
Theatre,  New  York,  and  "The  Girl  of  the  Golden  West,"  a  drama 
of  the  days  of  '49  in  California,  with  Miss  Blanche  Bates  in  the 


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title  role,  opened  at  the  Belasco  Theatre  November  14,  1905.  The 
fall  of  1906  he  produced  "The  Rose  of  the  Rancho"  at  the  Belasco 
Theatre.  He  opened  his  new  Stuyvesant  Theatre,  New  York, 
October  16,  1907,  with  David  Warfield  in  "The  Grand  Army 
Man." 

BELDON,  Edwin: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Princeton,  111.,  and  after  graduating  at 
the  public  schools  in  that  city  he  entered  the  Chicago  Conser 
vatory,  which  was  then  under  Hart  Conway's  direction,  and  from 
which  institution  he  was  graduated  in  1899.  Coming  to  New 
York,  he  was  engaged  by  A.  M.  Palmer  for  Richard  Mansfield's 
production  of  "Cyrano  de  Bergerac,"  and  remained  with  that 
actor  for  three  years.  During  this  time  he  appeared  in  every 
play  then  in  Mr.  Mansfield's  repertoire.  He  then  played  for  one 
season  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  in  stock  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre  in  such 
roles  as  Pierre  in  the  "Two  Orphans,"  the  Marquis  in  "The 
Nancy  Hanks,"  and  Sam  Gerridge  in  "Caste."  The  next  season 
Mr.  Beldon  played  the  Imp  in  "When  We  Were  Twenty-one," 
after  which  he  was  engaged  by  Daniel  Sully  to  create  the  light 
comedy  role  in  his  play,  "The  Matchmaker."  Mr.  Beldon  con 
tinued  with  Mr.  Sully  for  two  years,  and  last  season  was  seen 
in  the  part  of  Tom  Ripley  in  "The  Woman  Hater"  with  Harry 
Beresford.  Mr.  Beldon's  permanent  address  is  the  Green  Room 
Club,  New  York  City. 

BELL,  Digby  Valentine: 

Comic  opera  singer  and  comedian,  was  born  in  Milwaukee, 
Wis.,  in  1849,  being  the  son  of  William  J.  Bell,  a  banker.  When 
he  was  five  years  old  the  family  moved  to  New  York,  where  he 
received  his  education.  After  being  graduated  from  college  he 
became  a  member  of  the  Stock  Exchange.  He  had  found  time 
to  pursue  an  early  bent  for  singing,  and  his  success  as  a  bari 
tone  at  concerts  soon  led  him  to  forsake  business  and  go  to 
Italy  to  study  music.  He  studied  there  for  five  years,  and  in 
1876  made  his  debut  in  grand  opera  at  Malta,  his  first  roles  be 
ing  those  of  the  Count  in  "La  Sonnambula,"  and  Valentine  in 
"Faust."  He  next  appeared  at  the  Teatro  Fondo,  in  Naples, 
singing  the  leading  baritone  roles  in  "Faust,"  "II  Trovatore," 
"Linda,"  "La  Sonnambula"  and  "Traviata."  He  left  Italy  to 
sing  in  oratorios  in  Boston,  Chicago  and  Detroit.  At  the  end 
of  his  concert  tour  he  became  a  member  of  the  Martinez  Eng 
lish  Opera  Company,  in  which  he  sang  all  the  well-known  bari 
tone  roles.  This  company  finally  became  stranded  in  Montreal, 
and  to  enable  it  to  get  to  New  York  it  was  decided  to  put  on 


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"Pinafore,"  which  had  never  been  played  in  Canada.  Its  suc 
cess  was  instantaneous,  and  Mr.  Bell's  personal  achievement  as 
the  Admiral  was  so  marked  in  a  subsequent  tour  of  the  United 
States  that  he  decided  to  devote  himself  to  comic  opera.  He  ac 
cordingly  appeared  next  in  "The  Sorcerer,"  "Trial  by  Jury"  and 
the  one-act  musical  comedies,  "Ages  Ago."  "The  Spectre  Knight" 
and  "Charity  Begins  at  Home,"  all  written  by  W.  S.  Gilbert. 
His  next  engagement  was  with  the  Comley-Barton  company, 
with  which  he  created  the  role  in  this  country  of  Coliquot  in 
"Olivette."  For  the  next  three  years  he  was  under  contract  with 
Augustin  Daly.  At  this  time  he  created  the  part  of  Jack  Polo  in 
"Cinderella  at  School,"  and  appeared  in  "Zanina,"  "Needles  and 
Pins,"  "The  Passing  Regiment"  and  "Americans  Abroad."  After 
another  season  with  the  Comley-Barton  company  he  rejoined  the 
McCaull  Opera  Company  and  appeared  in  "Nell  Gwynne,"  "The 
Princess  of  Trebizonde,"  "The  Pirates  of  Penzance,"  "Don 
Caesar,"  "The  Black  Hussar,"  "The  Mikado,"  "Boccaccio,"  "Fati- 
nitza,"  "Indiana"  and  "Ruddygore."  He  married  Laura  Joyce 
while  they  were  playing  in  Mr.  Daly's  company.  After  starring 
in  "The  Tar  and  the  Tartar"  and  "Jupiter"  in  New  York,  he 
became  the  leading  comedian  of  the  Lillian  Russell  Opera  Com 
pany,  appearing  with  Miss  Russell  in  "The  Princess  Nicotine," 
"Girofle-Girofla,"  "The  Grand  Duchess,"  "The  Queen  of  Bril 
liants"  and  "La  Perichole."  Despite  his  success  as  a  comic 
opera  star  Mr.  Bell  aspired  to  legitimate  comedy,  and  after  a 
starring  tour  in  "Nancy  Lee"  he,  with  his  wife  as  co-star,  made 
a  tour  in  Hoyt's  'A  Midnight  Bell."  His  next  appearance  was 
in  "The  Hoosier  Doctor,"  written  by  Augustus  Thomas.  The 
seasons  of  1905-6-7  he  starred  as  Mr.  Pipp  in  "The  Education  of 
Mr.  Pipp,"  the  comedy  built  around  the  drawings  of  Charles 
Dana  Gibson  by  Augustus  Thomas.  The  season  of  1907-8  he 
played  in  "Shore  Acres."  Mr.  Bell's  address  is  1476  Lexington 
avenue,  New  York. 

BELL,  Gaston: 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  and  was  graduated  from  a  school 
of  dramatic  art  in  1902.  The  same  year  he  played  a  small  part 
in  one  of  Charles  Frohman's  companies  and  in  1903  he  appeared 
as  Horatio  Drake  in  "The  Christian"  with  a  traveling  company 
headed  by  Lionel  Adams  and  Bianca  West.  In  1904  he  played 
a  juvenile  part  in  "Our  New  Man,"  supporting  Harry  Beresford, 
and  in  the  spring  of  1905  he  succeeded  William  Courtenay  as 
Little  Billee  in  "Trilby"  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New 
York.  The  season  of  1906  he  was  with  Miss  Clara  Lipman  in 
"Julie  Bonbon." 


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BELLEW,  Kyrle  (Harold  Kyrle  Bellew) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Prescot,  England,  March  28,  1855,  being 
the  son  of  the  late  Rev.  J.  C.  M.  Bellew,  who  was  well  known 
as  a  public  reader.  After  a  time  in  a  ship  broker's  office,  when 
sixteen  years  old,  he  went  to  Australia,  where  he  prospected  for 
gold  and  for  a  time  did  newspaper  work.  He  made  his  first 
stage  appearance  at  Solfermo,  Australia,  in  1874,  playing  a  small 
part  in  the  one-act  farce,  "Turn  Him  Out."  He  made  his  first 
appearance  in  England  the  following  year  at  the  Theatre  Royal, 
Brighton,  as  Lord  Woodstock  in  "Clancarty."  His  first  London 
appearance  was  at  the  Park  Theatre  October  16,  1875,  again  in 
"Turn  Him  Out."  He  was  then  with  the  Haymarket  Company 
for  three  years,  and  in  1878  joined  the  company  of  the  late  Sir 
Henry  Irving.  He  first  visited  this  country  in  1882,  but  did 
not  act  here.  His  American  debut  was  made  at  Wallack's  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  as  Hubert  in  "In  His  Power"  October  26,  1885. 
He  remained  here  two  years,  playing  many  parts.  While  appear 
ing  in  "Loyal  Love"  in  London  he  met  Mrs.  James  Brown  Pot 
ter  and  they  formed  a  partnership  in  1888  and  went  on  a  star 
ring  tour  in  Australia,  India,  etc.,  which  lasted  three  years.  Mr. 
Bellew  and  Mrs.  Potter  remained  together  until  1898.  The  fol 
lowing  year  Mr.  Bellew  returned  to  Australia  and  went  into 
mining  ventures.  In  1901  he  reappeared  at  Wallack's,  in  New 
York,  in  "A  Gentleman  of  France."  He  played  Romeo  in  an  all- 
star  cast  and  October  27,  1903,  first  appeared  as  Raffles.  He 
was  seen  as  Brigadier  Gerard  in  the  play  of  the  same  name  Oc 
tober  1,  1906,  playing  it  throughout  the  season.  As  joint  star 
with  Miss  Margaret  Illington  he  appeared  in  "The  Thief"  at  the 
Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York,  September  9,  1907.  Mr.  Bellew  is 
a  member  of  The  Lambs.  His  New  York  address  is  the  Hotel 
Earlington,  55  West  Twenty-seventh  street. 

BENTLEY,  Miss  Irene  (Mrs.  Harry  B.  Smith) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  where  her  father  was  a 
wealthy  merchant.  While  still  in  her  'teens  Miss  Bentley  was 
married  to  J.  Thomas  Sothoron,  a  lawyer,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 
A  divorce  followed  and,  her  father  having  met  with  financial 
disaster,  Miss  Bentley  found  herself  compelled  to  earn  her  own 
living.  Choosing  the  theatrical  profession,  she  went  to 
New  York  and  obtained  an  engagement  with  E.  E.  Rice  and 
the  late  A.  M.  Palmer  to  appear  as  one  of  the  Captain's  daugh 
ters  in  "Little  Christopher"  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre. 
Thus  she  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  1895.  Miss 
Bentley  then  became  a  member  of  the  Casino  chorus,  appearing 
in  "The  Merry  World,"  where  she  attracted  the  attention  of 


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George  W.  Lederer,  who  pushed  her  forward  until  she  assumed 
prima  donna  parts  and  eventually  became  a  star,  her  first  stellar 
part  being  in  the  musical  comedy,  "The  Wild  Rose."  Since  then 
Miss  Bentley  has  been  the  star  of  several  light  musical  pieces. 
She  has  also  appeared  as  a  ballad  singer  in  vaudeville  houses. 
Early  in  1907  Miss  Bentley  became  the  wife  of  Harry  B.  Smith, 
the  playwright. 

BENNETT,  Richard: 

Actor,  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Indiana  and  educated  at 
Logansport,  Ind.  He  studied  engineering  before  making  his 
first  professional  stage  appearance  in  "The  Limited  Mail"  at 
the  old  Standard  Theatre,  Chicago.  He  was  with  touring  com 
panies  for  several  years,  and  then  came  near  joining  the  Au- 
gustin  Daly  company,  but  was  prevented  by  a  previous  verbal 
contract  and  threatened  injunction.  He  played  a  summer  en 
gagement  in  "The  Round  of  Pleasure"  at  the  New  Amsterdam 
Theatre,  New  York.  He  then  made  his  first  appearance  with 
Charles  Frohman  in  "The  Proper  Caper"  at  the  Madison  Square 
Theatre,  New  York,  playing  Achille.  He  has  remained  under 
the  Frohman  management  for  more  than  ten  years,  having 
played  the  following  original  parts:  In  1896,  Dick  Beach  in 
"The  White  Heather";  1897,  Charles  Le  Roy,  "Her  Atonement"; 
Fred  Sinden,  "White  Horse  Tavern";  1898,  Captain  Rivers,  "His 
Excellency";  Father  Anselm,  "The  Royal  Family";  1900,  heavy 
part  in  "Sweet  and  Twenty";  1901,  heavy  part  in  "Jim  Bludso": 
1902,  Jimmy  Greaves  in  "Imprudence";  1903,  Boer  Boy  in  "Best 
oi  Friends";  1904,  Taylor  in  "The  Other  Girl";  1905,  Young 
American  in  "Man  and  Superman";  1905-6,  Jefferson  Ryder  in 
"The  Lion  and  the  Mouse"  in  New  York  and  London;  1906,  Len- 
nard  Wilmore  in  "The  Hypocrites";  1907,  Dick  Livingston  in 
"Strongheart"  in  London,  and  Adamar  in  "Divorgons,"  also  in 
London.  The  same  year  he  also  played  the  Rev.  Edgar  Linnell 
in  "The  Hypocrites."  Mr.  Bennett  married  Miss  Mabel  Morri 
son,  actress,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Lewis  Morrison.  He  is  a 
member  of  The  Lambs,  The  Players,  the  Elks  and  the  Bulldog 
Club.  His  principal  recreations  he  finds  in  golf,  tennis,  horses 
and  dogs. 

BERKELEY,  Miss  Gertrude  (Mrs.  Wilson  Enos) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  of  Scotch  and  Eng 
lish  parents  and  educated  at  the  Potsdam  (N.  Y.)  Normal  School. 
At  the  age  of  seventeen  she  appeared  in  an  old  character  part 
with  Thomas  Herndon  in  "The  Colleen  Bawn,"  after  which  fol 
lowed  several  seasons  in  repertoire  companies  in  such  roles  as 


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Andre,  Lady  Macbeth,  etc.  She  made  her  first  marked  success 
in  Charles  Frohman's  production  of  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind 
Me,"  succeeding  Miss  Blanche  Walsh  in  the  leading  role  of 
Kate  Reunion  when  the  play  closed  at  the  Empire  Theatre  in 
1S95  and  went  on  tour.  Miss  Berkeley  left  the  company  in  San 
Francisco  to  join  the  Daniel  Frawley  Stock  Company  in  that 
city,  with  which  organization  she  remained  three  years.  She 
continued  in  stock,  going  to  Woodward,  S.  C.,  and  then  opening 
her  own  playhouse  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  on  the  lines  of  Mrs. 
Osborne's  company  in  New  York.  She  gave  up  this  enterprise 
to  go  to  Washington,  where  she  appeared  in  John  T.  Sullivan's 
company.  Miss  Berkeley  attracted  the  attention  of  New  York 
managers  in  1904  while  she  was  appearing  with  the  Proctor 
Fifth  Avenue  Stock  Company  in  a  production  of  "Anna  Kare- 
nina."  Subsequently  she  was  seen  in  Louis  K.  Anspacher's  "The 
Embarrassment  of  Riches,"  produced  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New 
York,  in  1906.  The  season  of  1906-7  she  appeared  as  Gina  in 
Ibsen's  "The  Wild  Duck"  with  Wright  Lorimer,  and  early  in  the 
season  of  1907-8  as  Aline  Solness  in  "The  Master  Builder"  with 
Alia  Nazimova.  Miss  Berkeley  was  married  to  the  late  Wilson 
Enos  June  17,  1891.  She  has  one  son.  Her  nome  is  at  the  Wood 
stock  Hotel,  New  York. 

BERGEtf,  Miss  Nella  (Mrs.  De  Wolf  Hopper) : 

Light  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  her  father 
being  Captain  John  Riordan,  of  the  Police  Department.  When 
she  was  eighteen  years  eld  her  singing  attracted  the  attention 
of  the  famous  bandmaster,  Patrick  Sarsfield  Gilmore,  and  he 
engaged  her  as  soprano  soloist  for  his  band  concerts  on  tour  and 
in  New  York.  After  several  seasons  with  him  she  retired  from 
public  view,  save  for  amateur  performances  of  the  operas  of 
Gilbert  and  Sullivan  and  solo  singing  in  Brooklyn  church  choirs, 
to  engage  in  further  musical  study.  In  1895  she  returned  to 
the  professional  ranks  and  toured  the  country  under  the  man 
agement  of  Fred  C.  Whitney  in  Smith  and  De  Koven's  "The 
Fencing  Master."  She  soon  again  left  the  stage,  this  time  to 
become  the  wife  of  James  D.  Bergen,  a  wealthy  cut-glass  manu 
facturer  of  Meriden  and  Hartford,  Conn.  As  Mrs.  Bergen  she 
was  one  of  the  most  noted  church  choir  singers  of  Meriden  and 
Hartford.  The  old  love  for  the  stage,  however,  reasserted  it 
self,  and  in  1897  she  left  the  Centre  Church  choir,  of  Hartford, 
to  play  the  leading  soprano  role  with  De  Wolf  Hopper  in  "El 
Capitan."  In  1899  she  was  again  with  Mr.  Hopper  in  "The  Charla 
tan."  Mr.  Hopper  had  obtained  a  divorce  from  Mrs.  Edna  Wallace 
Hopper  in  the  summer  of  1898,  and  when  Mrs.  Bergen  left  the 


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cast  of  "The  Charlatan,"  to  go  to  South  Dakota,  it  was  rumored 
that  she  and  Mr.  Hopper  would  be  married  as  soon  as  she  had 
obtained  a  divorce.  Rumor  proved  truth  and  they  were  mar 
ried.  She  played  thereafter  with  him  in  the  leading  soprano 
roles  in  all  of  his  comic  operas  until  the  last  season,  when  they 
appeared  in  different  companies.  She  was  the  star  of  the  Sousa 
opera,  "The  Free  Lance,"  which  ended  the  1906  season  at  the 
New  Amsterdam  Theatre.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  seen  as 
Grace  Palmer  in  George  Cohan's  "The  Talk  of  New  York." 

BERGERE,  Miss  Valerie: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Metz,  France.  With  her  sister  Leona, 
who  was  a  member  of  the  Conried  Opera  Company,  she  came  to 
this  country  when  a  girl  and  studied  the  English  language.  She 
made  her  first  appearance  as  Dora  Vane  in  "Harbor  Lights"  at 
Oakland,  Cal.,  in  1892,  and  the  following  season  played  ingenue 
parts  with  Maud  Granger  in  California  and  the  Northwest.  The 
same  year  she  created  the  part  of  Mrs.  Russell  Ritchie  in  "The 
Journalist"  with  marked  success.  She  next  appeared  in  New 
York  in  "A  Piece  of  Steel."  In  1895  Miss  Bergere  did  excellent 
work  as  Jen,  a  tough  girl,  in  "A  White  Rat,"  and  as  Marie 
Vernet,  a  French  adventuress,  in  "On  the  Mississippi."  Three 
years  later  she  was  a  member  of  the  Girard  Avenue  Stock  Com 
pany  at  Philadelphia,  appearing  in  such  parts  as  Henriette  in 
"The  Two  Orphans,"  Mrs.  Rawlston  in  "Jim  the  Penman,"  Su 
zanne  in  "The  Masked  Ball,"  Miriam  in  "The  Butterflies,"  and 
as  Carmen.  Miss  Bergere  has  recently  been  seen  in  vaudeville 
in  the  one-act  sketch,  "A  Bowery  Camille." 

BERNARD,  Sam  (Barnett) : 

Comedian,  was  born  in  Birmingham,  England,  on  June  3, 
1863.  When  he  was  four  years  old  his  parents  moved  to  the 
United  States.  He  and  his  brother  Dick  were  imbued  with 
"show"  ambitions  when  they  were  youngsters,  and  gave  their 
first  appearance  in  their  father's  woodshed.  They  made  their 
first  stage  appearance  in  New  York  in  1876  at  the  old  Grand 
Duke  Theatre,  Baxter  and  Worth  streets.  The  theatre  was  in  a 
basement,  and  the  admission  fee  was  five  cents.  The  Bernards 
used  to  perform  there  after  school  hours,  billed  as  the  Bernard 
Brothers,  and  did  one  of  the  knockabout  comedian  singing  and 
dancing  acts  so  popular  at  that  time.  As  a  team  they  played 
this  sketch  in  vaudeville  and  variety  houses  until  1884,  when 
Sam  Bernard  joined  the  stock  company  at  B.  F.  Keith's  Provi 
dence  (R.  I.)  theatre  to  play  comedy  roles.  In  1885  he  went  to 
England  and  appeared  in  character  sketches  in  the  leading 


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music  halls  and  variety  theatres.  He  returned  to  the  United 
States  in  1886,  created  the  role  of  the  Bad  Boy  in  "The  Corner 
Grocery,"  and  for  two  seasons  played  the  principal  comedy  role 
in  "Lost  in  London."  He  next  gave  his  attention  to  burlesque, 
and  from  1888  to  1891  played  the  principal  comedy  parts  with 
the  Night  Owls.  Later  he  became  part  proprietor,  with  Mr. 
Manchester,  of  the  French  Folly  Company,  also  a  burlesque  com 
pany,  in  which  he  again  played  the  leading  comedy  parts.  It 
was  at  this  period  that  he  became  popular  as  a  German  dialect 
comedian,  and  it  was  the  laughs  which  greeted  his  language 
nonsense  which  led  to  his  being  engaged  by  Weber  &  Fields 
to  tour  with  the  Russell  Brothers.  When  Weber  &  Fields  or 
ganized  the  burlesque  company,  the  Vaudeville  Club,  they  placed 
Mr.  Bernard  in  charge  of  it.  When  that  company  was  retired 
he  became  a  member  of  the  Weber  &  Fields  Broadway  Music 
Hall  Company  in  New  York,  with  which  he  remained  until  1901. 
In  1904  he  was  engaged  by  Charles  Frohman  to  star  with  Miss 
Hattie  Williams  in  "The  Girl  from  Kay's,"  which  ran  for  a 
season  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York.  In  this  Mr. 
Bernard  made  the  chief  success  of  his  career.  He  continued 
this  success,  still  as  a  co-star  with  Miss  Williams,  in  "The 
Rollicking  Girl,"  also  produced  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre 
by  Charles  Frohman  in  the  season  of  1905-6.  The  seasons  of 
1906-7-8  he  starred  in  "The  Rich  Mr.  Hoggenheimer." 

BERNHARDT,  Madame  Sarah  (Rosina  Sarah  Damala) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Paris  October  22,  1844,  and  educated  at 
the  Convent  de  Grandchamps,  Versailles.  She  made  her  first  ap 
pearance  on  the  stage  at  the  Comedie  Frangaise  when  she  was 
eighteen  years  old  as  Iphigenie.  After  appearing  at  the  Gym- 
nase,  Porte  St.  Martin  and  Odeon  theatres  she  returned  to  the 
Comedie  Frangaise  in  1872  and  was  nominated  a  "societaire"  in 
1875.  When  she  left  the  Comedie  to  make  her  first  visit  to 
America  and  England  she  was  fined  $20,000.  She  made  her 
first  appearance  in  America  in  1880.  Returning  to  Paris  the 
following  year,  she  became  director  of  the  Theatre  Ambigu.  In 
1882  she  was  married  to  M.  Damala.  She  bought  the  Porte  St. 
Martin  in  1883  and  made  many  noted  productions  there.  Her 
next  visit  to  America  was  in  1886.  From  1887  to  1893  she 
played  at  the  Porte  St.  Martin,  and  then  assumed  directorship 
of  the  Renaissance,  where  many  of  her  greatest  successes  were 
made.  In  1898  she  bought  the  old  Theatre  des  Nations,  which 
she  renamed  the  Theacre  Sarah  Bernhardt.  Her  most  recent 
visit  to  this  country  was  in  the  season  of  1905-6,  when  she 
toured  under  the  management  of  the  Shuberts,  after  a  brilliant 


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engagement  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New  York.  She  played  fare 
well  performances  there  June  12  and  13,  1906,  appearing  in 
"Hamlet,"  "Frou-Frou,"  "Camille"  and  "L'Aiglon."  During  her 
tour  Madame  Bernhardt  frequently  played  under  a  huge  tent 
on  account  of  the  war  between  rival  managerial  organizations. 
Madame  Bernhardt,  besides  being  a  painter  and  sculptor  of  rec 
ognized  ability,  has  written  many  books  and  magazine  articles 
and  produced  a  play,  "L'Aveu,"  written  by  herself,  at  the 
Odeon  Theatre,  Paris,  in  1888.  Her  home  address  is  Boulevard 
Pe"reire,  5,  Paris. 

BERTRAM,  Miss  Helen  (Mrs.  E.  J.  Morgan) : 

Comic  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  Lulu  May  Burt  in  Tus- 
cola,  111.,  in  1869.  She  made  her  first  histrionic  effort  when  a 
child  of  four,  being  held  on  a  table  to  speak  a  piece  in  the 
arms  of  Mrs.  Joseph  G.  Cannon,  wife  of  the  present  Speaker 
of  the  House  of  Representatives.  She  was  educated  in  Indian 
apolis,  and  studied  music  there  and  at  the  Cincinnati  College 
of  Music.  Miss  Bertram  made  her  first  New  York  appearance 
at  the  old  Madison  Square  Garden  as  Josephine  in  "Pinafore," 
a  part  she  played  "one  consecutive  week."  She  was  then  en 
gaged  by  the  Emma  Abbott  Opera  Company  and  played  Filina 
in  "Mignon"  in  1888.  She  then  went  under  the  management  of 
J.  C.  Duff,  appearing  in  a  large  repertoire  of  light  operas.  Dur 
ing  this  engagement  she  was  married  to  Signer  Tommasi,  the 
musical  director  of  the  company.  A  divorce  followed  a  few  years 
later.  After  singing  many  prima  donna  parts  with  the  McCaull 
Opera  Company,  Miss  Bertram  became  a  member  of  Henry  E. 
Abbey's  English  Opera  Company.  In  1893  she  was  married  to 
the  late  E.  J.  Henley,  a  well-known  actor.  She  had  one  child 
by  him,  Rosina  Henley,  born  in  1894.  Mr.  Henley  died  a  few 
years  after  the  marriage.  After  being  prima  donna  with  the  Bos- 
tonians,  Miss  Bertram  joined  the  Carl  Rosa  Opera  Company, 
and  at  the  Covent  Garden  Theatre,  London,  sang  Santuzza  in 
"CavaJleria  Rusticana,"  Arline  in  "The  Bohemian  Girl"  and 
Nedda  in  "I  Pagliacci."  Miss  Bertram  was  in  the  original 
casts  of  "The  Tar  and  the  Tartar,"  "Foxy  Quiller,"  "Peggy  from 
Paris,"  "A  War  Time  Wedding"  and  "La  Basoche"  (in  this  coun 
try).  She  has  also  played  prima  donna  roles  in  "Clover,"  "The 
Black  Hussar,"  "Amorita,"  "Miss  Helyett,"  "The  Prince  of  Pil- 
sen,"  "The  Serenade,"  "Robin  Hood"  and  "Prince  Ananias."  She 
has  since  played  in  stock  companies  and  in  vaudeville.  At  the 
death  of  Mr.  Henley  Miss  Bertram  became  the  wife  of  E.  J. 
Morgan,  a  popular  actor,  who  died  early  in  1906. 


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BEVERIDGE,  J.  D. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Dublin  in  1844,  his  father  being  a  civil 
engineer.  A  clerkship  in  his  father's  firm  not  suiting  him  he 
ran  away  at  the  age  of  sixteen  and  joined  a  traveling  theatrical 
company,  making  his  first  appearance  at  Oldham,  in  Lancashire, 
England.  After  a  few  years  of  "barnstorming"  he  obtained  an 
engagement  at  the  Adelphi  Theatre,  making  his  first  London  ap 
pearance  in  "Lost  at  Sea"  in  1869.  For  years  he  played  leads 
in  English  provincial  companies,  principally  in  the  Robertson 
comedies.  His  Pygmalion  in  "Pygmalion  and  Galatea"  attracted 
attention  at  this  time.  Again  returning  to  the  Adelphi  for  the 
production  of  "Taken  from  Life,"  in  1881,  he  remained  there 
under  the  management  of  the  Galtis  until  1897,  playing  heavies 
in  the  long  series  of  Adelphi  melodramas,  and  becoming  the  lead 
ing  exponent  of  stage  villainy  on  the  English  stage.  Afterward 
Mr.  Beveridge  created  the  part  of  the  Professor  in  "Old  Heidel 
berg"  at  the  St.  James's  Theatre  and  appeared  in  "The  Country 
House"  at  the  Prince  of  Wales's  in  1903.  Mr.  Beveridge  came  to 
this  country  under  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman  in  1904. 
The  seasons  of  1905-6-7  he  played  in  "Man  and  Superman,"  sup 
porting  Robert  Loraine.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  acting 
in  London. 

BIGELOW,  Charles  A. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  0.,  December  12,  1862,  being  the 
son  of  Henry  A.  and  Matilda  Bigelow.  His  first  stage  appearance 
was  made  at  the  age  of  fourteen  in  Boston,  Mass.,  where  he  ap 
peared  in  a  production  of  "The  Crystal  Slipper."  Later  he  joined 
the  Carleton  Opera  Company,  where  his  ability  as  a  comedian  was 
discovered.  He  rose  rapidly  after  this  engagement,  subsequently 
coming  to  New  York  with  Lillian  Russell  and  making  his  first 
marked  success  as  Novo  Mund  in  "The  Princess  Nicotine,"  pro 
duced  at  the  Casino  Theatre.  The  season  of  1894-5  he  was  seen 
in  "Little  Christopher,"  and  the  following  year  in  "Excelsior, 
Jr."  The  season  of  1897-8  he  appeared  in  "Evangeline,"  "The 
Girl  from  Paris"  and  "The  French  Maid,"  the  latter  lasting  two 
seasons.  For  three  years  he  was  Anna  Held's  principal  come 
dian,  playing  in  "Papa's  Wife"  and  "The  Little  Duchess,"  and 
then  joined  Weber  and  Fields's  forces,  appearing  during  the  sea 
sons  of  1902-3-4  in  "Twirly  Whirly,"  "An  English  Daisy"  and 
"The  Man  from  China."  He  was  with  Joe  Weber  for  two  years 
in  "Higgledy  Piggledy"  and  "Twiddle  Twaddle,"  and  the  season 
of  1906-7  appeared  in  the  "Parisian  Model"  with  Anna  Held.  He 
then  went  into  vaudeville. 


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BINGHAM,  Miss  Amelia  (Mrs.  Lloyd  Bingham)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Hicksville,  Ohio,  in  1869,  her  maiden 
name  being  Smiley.  She  was  educated  at  the  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University.  Her  first  stage  appearance  was  with  McKee  Rankin 
in  a  tour  of  the  Pacific  Coast.  She  made  her  first  appearance  in 
New  York  at  the  People's  Theatre,  on  the  Bowery,  in  a  melo 
drama,  "The  Struggle  of  Life."  Her  next  engagement  was  at 
Niblo's  Garden,  New  York,  in  "The  Power  of  Gold,"  another 
melodrama.  After  playing  in  "The  Village  Postmaster,"  at  the 
Fourteenth  Street  Theatre,  and  in  "Captain  Impudence"  and  re 
vivals  of  the  Boucicault  dramas,  at  the  American  Theatre,  she 
was  engaged  by  Charles  Frohman  for  his  production  of  "The 
White  Heather,"  at  the  Academy  of  Music.  She  afterward  ap 
peared  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre  in  "On  and  Off"  and  "The 
Proper  Caper,"  and  at  Wallack's  in  "At  the  White  Horse  Tav 
ern"  and  "The  Cuckoo."  She  succeeded  Jessie  Millward  as  lead 
ing  woman  in  "His  Excellency  the  Governor"  at  the  Empire 
Theatre.  The  season  of  1899-1900  she  appeared  in  the  melo 
drama  "Hearts  Are  Trumps,"  played  with  the  George  Holland 
Stock  Company  at  the  Girard  Avenue  Theatre,  Philadelphia;  in 
"Nature"  at  the  Academy  of  Music,  New  York;  in  "The  Capitol" 
at  the  Standard,  New  York,  in  1895,  and  at  the  Herald  Square, 
New  York,  with  the  Mordaunt  and  Block  Stock  Company  in 
1898.  In  1900  Miss  Bingham  went  to  London,  and  there  saw 
women  acting  in  and  managing  their  own  companies.  She  re 
turned  to  New  York  determined  to  emulate  them,  organized  her 
own  company,  accepted  a  play  from  Clyde  Fitch,  and  on  January 
15,  1901,  gave  the  first  performance  of  her  stock  company  at  the 
Bijou  Theatre,  New  York,  with  "The  Climbers,"  she  herself  be 
ing  in  one  of  the  principal  roles.  The  play  proved  a  great  suc 
cess.  Since  then  she  has  produced  a  number  of  plays,  chief 
among  them  being  "A  Modern  Magdalen"  and  "The  Frisky  Mrs. 
Johnson."  The  season  of  1907-8  she  starred  in  "A  Modern  Lady 
Godiva."  Miss  Bingham's  home  is  at  41  East  Thirty-first  street. 
New  York. 

BISPHAM,  David  S. : 

Grand  opera  baritone,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on  January 
5,  1S57.  His  parents  were  of  Quaker  stock.  Mr.  Bispham's 
father  was  a  well-known  lawyer  and  music  lover  who  played  the 
flute,  and  his  son  very  naturally  inherited  his  taste  for  music, 
one  of  the  pleasures  of  his  early  boyhood  days  being  to  accom 
pany  his  father's  flute  on  the  guitar.  On  leaving  Haverford  Col 
lege,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1876  and  where  ho  had 
been  the  leader  of  the  Glee  Club,  David  Bispham  entered  busi- 


44  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

ness  as  a  wool  merchant.  He  still  studied  music,  however,  and 
as  a  member  of  the  Orpheus  Club  and  the  Oratorio  Society  be 
came  well  known  in  the  amateur  musical  life  of  his  native  city. 
He  was  also  the  solo  basso  and  leader  of  the  choir  of  St.  Mark's 
Church.  In  1885  he  married  Miss  Caroline  Russell,  the  daugh 
ter  of  General  Charles  Russell  and  went  abroad.  He  had  long 
cherished  an  ambition  to  become  a  professional  singer,  and 
when  he  reached  Italy  he  at  once  began  to  fit  himself  for  such 
a  career.  He  studied  under  Vannuccini  in  Florence,  and  the 
elder  Lamperti  in  Milan,  meanwhile  singing  at  concerts  in  Flor 
ence,  Bologna  and  elsewhere.  In  1889  he  went  to  London,  where 
for  two  years  he  continued  concert  singing  and  appeared  in 
amateur  operatic  performances.  He  made  his  stage  d6but  on 
November  3,  1891,  at  the  Royal  English  Opera,  appearing  as  the 
Due  de  Longueville  in  Messager's  "Basoche."  At  the  end  of 
this  engagement  he  was  at  once  taken  into  the  Covent  Garden 
company  by  the  famous  impresario,  Sir  Augustus  Harris,  un 
der  whom  in  the  summer  of  1892  he  first  appeared  as  Kurwenal 
in  "Tristan  und  Isolde."  He  sang  at  Covent  Garden  for  the  next 
ten  years,  appearing  in  some  twenty-five  roles  in  French,  Ger 
man  and  Italian  opera.  In  1897  he  was  engaged  by  Maurice 
Grau  to  sing  in  New  York  with  the  Metropolitan  Opera  Com 
pany,  which  included  the  De  Reszkes,  Plangon,  Melba,  Eames 
and  Schumann-Heinck.  Mr.  Bispham  has  won  his  greatest  laurels 
in  his  native  land  in  Wagnerian  roles,  his  Kurwenal,  Telramund 
and  Beckmesser  especially  calling  forth  the  admiration  of  the 
public  and  the  critics.  Of  late  years  he  has  lived  principally 
abroad  and  devoted  himself  to  concerts  and  song  recitals  through 
out  America  and  England  where,  on  December  12,  1906,  he  pro 
duced  most  successfully  in  London  the  romantic  opera,  "The 
Vicar  of  Wakefield,"  the  music  of  which  was  written  by  Liza 
Lehmann,  Mr.  Bispham  playing  the  title  role. 

BLAKELEY,  James: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Hull,  England,  in  1873,  being  the  son  of 
the  late  William  Blakeley,  a  well-known  English  comedian  for 
many  years  associated  with  Sir  Charles  Wyndham's  Criterion 
Theatre,  London,  where  Mr.  Blakeley  started  his  stage  career 
as  call  boy  in  1889.  He  afterwards  appeared  in  pantomimes  at 
Brighton  and  Manchester.  For  some  years  he  was  with  a  com 
pany  appearing  on  piers  and  beaches  at  summer  resorts  in  Eng 
land,  and  afterward  was  with  a  concert  party  in  the  vaudeville 
houses.  In  1903  he  played  Tubby  Bedford  in  "The  Schoolgirl" 
at  the  Prince  of  Wales  Theatre,  London.  The  following  season 
he  was  at  Daly's  London  Theatre  in  "The  Cingalee,"  and  in  1904 


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he  nrst  came  to  this  country  with  "The  Schoolgirl."  The  sea 
sons  of  1906-7-8  he  appeared  in  "The  Little  Cherub"  at  the  Cri 
terion  Theatre,  New  York,  and  on  tour. 

BLANEY,  Harry  Clay: 

Actor,  chiefly  in  melodrama,  was  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio, 
December,  1874.  At  the  age  of  ten  he  had  gained  a  local  repu 
tation  as  a  boy  actor,  mimic  and  gymnast,  and  had  appeared  at 
many  entertainments,  his  gains  from  which  helped  to  support 
himself,  his  mother  and  his  brother,  who  had  been  left  almost 
penniless  at  the  death  of  Mr.  Blaney  at  one  time  a  wealthy  mer 
chant  of  Cincinnati  and  Columbus.  Harry  Blaney  always  dates 
his  career  from  the  Sunday  morning  on  which  he  entertained 
the  prisoners  of  the  Ohio  State  Penitentiary  in  the  chapel  of 
the  prison.  Thereafter  he  entertained  them  frequently  and  so 
endeared  himself  to  them  that  on  Christmas  morning,  1886,  they 
gave  him  a  gold  watch  and  forty  dollars,  this  sum  becoming  his 
first  bank  account.  His  first  stage  engagement  was  with  Elmer 
Vance  in  "The  Limited  Mail."  For  several  seasons  afterward 
Mr.  Blaney  played  in  musical  comedies  and  extravaganzas. 
"Across  the  Pacific"  and  "The  Boy  Behind  the  Gun,"  in  which 
he  has  increased  his  reputation  as  one  of  the  most  popular  gal 
lery  favorites,  are  representative  melodramas  of  the  kind  he 
plays,  most  of  which  have  been  written  by  his  brother,  Charles 
E.  Blaney.  Harry  Blaney  married,  in  November,  1903,  Miss 
Kitty  Wolfe.  His  summer  home  is  at  Centre  Moriches,  Long 
Island. 

BLAUVELT,  Miss  Lillian  Evans  (Mrs.  Wm.  F.  Pendleton) : 

Grand  and  light  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  in  Brooklyn 
March  16,  1873,  her  ancestors  being  Welsh  and  Dutch.  She  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  and  began  the  study  of  music 
when  she  was  five  years  old.  She  played  the  violin  in  public  at 
the  age  of  seven,  and  at  fifteen  years  began  to  study  singing  at 
the  National  Conservatory  of  Music,  New  York,  under  Jacques 
Bouhy.  While  still  very  young  Miss  Blauvelt  was  married  to 
Royal  Stone  Smith,  son  of  Judge  Fayette  Smith,  of  Ohio.  Mr. 
Smith  was  a  church  choir  singer,  and  when  M.  Bouhy  went  to 
Europe  the  Smiths  followed,  so  that  Mrs.  Smith  might  continue 
her  studies  with  him  in  Paris.  Miss  Blauvelt  sang  at  concerts 
in  Paris  and  Belgium,  and  later  in  Moscow  where  she  studied 
under  Rubinstein  for  the  lyric  stage.  She  made  her  first  ap 
pearance  in  opera  in  the  Theatre  de  la  Monnaie,  Brussels,  as 
Mirelle.  Returning  to  this  country,  Miss  Blauvelt  sang  at  con 
certs  under  Seidl,  Thomas  and  Damrosch.  In  1897  Miss  Blau- 


46  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

velt  obtained  a  divorce  from  her  husband.  In  1898  she  sang 
before  Queen  Margherita  of  Italy,  and  the  following  year  before 
Queen  Victoria.  In  February,  1899,  she  was  married  to  William 
F.  Pendleton,  of  New  York.  In  1901  she  received  the  decoration 
of  the  Order  of  St.  Cecilia  at  Rome,  being  the  only  woman  to  be 
so  honored.  In  1902  she  sang  at  Covent  Garden,  London,  mak 
ing  successes  as  Marguerite,  Micccla,  Juliet  and  Zerlina.  The 
season  of  1905  she  went  into  light  opera,  appearing  as  star  in 
"The  Rose  of  the  Alhambra"  under  the  management  of  F.  C. 
Whitney.  Later  she  was  a  member  of  Joseph  Weber's  company. 
Miss  Blauvelt's  home  is  at  632  Kenmore  place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

BLANCHE,  Miss  Belle  (Blanche  Minzesheimer)  : 

Actress  and  mimic,  was  born  in  New  York  June  2,  1891,  and 
educated  at  the  public  schools  in  Brooklyn.  At  the  age  of  ten 
she  made  her  debut  on  the  stage,  appearing  at  a  Sunday  night 
concert  at  the  New  York  Theatre,  giving  imitations  of  well- 
known  actors  and  actresses.  So  successful  was  she  that  she 
was  engaged  the  season  of  1901-2  for  a  similar  act  on  the  New 
York  Theatre  roof,  at  that  time  known  as  Cherrie  Garden  Grove. 
She  toured  in  vaudeville  at  the  close  of  this  engagement  for  a 
short  time,  and  the  seasons  of  1902-3-4  appeared  in  various  Shu- 
bert  musical  comedies,  playing  leading  roles.  She  left  the  stage 
for  a  year  for  the  purpose  of  training  her  voice,  and  devoted 
her  time  chiefly  to  drawing-room  concerts.  On  May  13,  1907. 
Miss  Blanche  made  her  reappearance  in  vaudeville  at  Hammer- 
stein's  Victoria  Theatre,  New  York,  and  again  made  such  a  pro 
nounced  hit  that  she  was  engaged  for  the  entire  summer  as  a 
feautre  on  the  Victoria  Roof  Garden.  The  season  of  1907-8  she 
starred  in  vaudeville  giving  imitations,  the  most  successful  of 
which  were  those  of  Anna  Held,  Geo.  M.  Cohan  and  Fritzi  Scheff. 
Miss  Blanche  has  sung  for  Caruso  and  Ancona,  of  the  Metropoli 
tan  Opera  Company,  and,  acting  under  their  directions,  will  study 
for  grand  opera  in  Europe  within  a  year  or  so.  Miss  Blanche  has 
been  compelled  to  decline  several  offers  to  star  in  musical  com 
edies,  owing  to  her  vaudeville  contracts.  Her  address  is  348  Jef 
ferson  avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

BLINN,  Holbrook: 

Actor,  was  born  in  California  January  23,  1872,  his  father  be 
ing  Col.  Chas.  H.  Blinn,  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War  and  now  Spe 
cial  Deputy  Surveyor  of  the  Port  of  San  Francisco.  His  mother 
was  Nellie  Holbrook,  a  well-known  actress.  Mr.  Blinn  left  Leland 
Stanford  University  in  his  sophomore  year.  As  a  child  of  six 
he  appeared  on  the  stage  with  Frank  Mayo  in  "The  Streets  of 


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48  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

New  York."  His  first  speaking  part  was  Gratiano  in  "The  Mer 
chant  of  Venice"  at  a  benefit  to  R.  M.  Eberle  in  San  Francisco. 
In  1902  he  was  engaged  by  Joseph  Grismer  to  play  Corporal 
Ferry  in  the  original  production  of  "The  New  South"  at  Stock- 
well's  Theatre,  San  Francisco,  and  later  at  the  Broadway  Thea 
tre,  New  York.  He  remained  with  the  company  a  year  and  a 
half,  playing  various  parts  and  acting  as  stage  manager.  He 
afterward  took  the  first  dramatic  company  to  Alaska.  During 
the  illness  of  Louis  James,  Mr.  Blinn  played  Marc  Antony  with 
Frederick  Warde  at  the  Baldwin  Theatre,  San  Francisco.  In 
August,  1895,  he  joined  Miss  Effie  Ellsler  as  leading  man.  Hi3 
next  engagement  was  with  the  late  Roland  Reed  for  one  season, 
then  he  produced  "The  Cat  and  the  Cherub"  in  New  York  in 
1897,  and  later  in  London.  After  an  engagement  with  Martin 
Harvey  he  appeared  in  "Ib  and  Little  Christina"  in  London, 
which  he  produced  in  connection  with  Basil  Hood's  "The  Great 
Silence,"  in  which  he  played  Rain-in-the-Face.  He  then  ap 
peared  as  Ib  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York.  He 
was  next  seen  in  "The  Battle  of  the  Strong"  and  "To  Have  and 
to  Hold"  in  New  York,  and  in  London  he  played  in  "Sweet  and 
Twenty";  as  Jaques  in  a  revival  of  "As  You  Like  It"  and  in 
"Scrooge,"  during  the  run  of  which  he  played  before  King  Ed 
ward  VII  and  was  the  first  American  actor  to  be  presented  to 
His  Majesty,  spending  the  night  at  Sandringham,  the  King's 
residence.  Mr.  Blinn  then  played  Napoleon  in  "The  Duchess  of 
Tantzic."  In  January,  1907,  Mr.  Blinn  played  Jack  Marbury  in 
"Salomy  Jane"  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York,  and  then  cre 
ated  the  part  of  the  Mayor  in  "The  Man  of  the  Hour"  at  the 
Savoy  Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1907-8  Mr.  Blinn  was 
with  Arnold  Daly  at  the  Berkeley  Theatre,  New  York.  He  mar 
ried  Miss  Ruth  Benson,  an  actress  and  the  daughter  of  Major 
H.  McKinley  Benson,  U.  S.  Army,  in  1896.  His  address  is  The 
Lambs,  New  York. 

BLOCK,  Sheridan: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston,  and  was  graduated  from  Boston 
University.  His  first  engagement  as  an  actor  was  with  Daniel 
Frohman  in  the  role  of  Dave  Hardy  in  "Esmeralda."  Since  then 
he  has  played  many  leading  parts,  such  as  Colonel  Prescott  in 
"Held  by  the  Enemy,"  Count  Musso  Danella  in  "Mr.  Barnes  of 
New  York,"  George  Deshamel  in  "Article  47"  with  Maud  Gran 
ger,  Sartorys  in  "Frou  Frou"  and  Armand  in  "Camille."  He 
was  jointly  featured  with  Emily  Rigl  and  Joseph  Haworth  in 
"The  Crust  of  Society"  at  the  Union  Square  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  appeared  with  the  late  E.  J.  Henley  in  "Captain  Paul"  at 


WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE  49 

the  opening  of  the  Castle  Square  Theatre,  Boston.  He  was  in 
the  original  production  of  "Darkest  Russia,"  and  for  some  time 
played  leading  parts  with  the  Boston  Museum  Stock  Company. 

BLOCK,  Will  J.: 

Manager,  was  born  in  Springfield,  111.,  and  before  becoming 
associated  with  the  theatrical  profession  was  manager  of  the 
Centropolis  Hotel  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.  He  then  became  advance 
agent  for  a  repertoire  company  and  in  1891  joined  Evans  and 
Hoey  in  "The  Parlor  Match."  Two  years  later  he  succeeded 
Harry  D.  Mann  as  manager  of  those  entertainers.  At  the  dis 
solution  of  the  firm  Mr.  Block  managed  the  Herald  Square  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  for  Mr.  Evans,  and  under  his  regime  Frank  Mayo 
scored  his  hit  in  "Pudd'nhead  Wilson."  In  1897  Mr.  Block  or 
ganized  a  stock  company,  playing  the  Herald  Square  and  the 
Columbus  theatres,  New  York  and  Harlem,  employing  such  peo 
ple  as  Blanche  Walsh,  Amelia  Bingham,  Edwin  Arden  and  Frank 
Mordaunt.  He  then  took  May  Yokes  on  tour  with  "My  Friend 
from  India"  and  managed  a  company  playing  "The  Messenger 
Boy."  Beginning  1902  Mr.  Block  managed  the  Park  Theatre, 
Boston,  and  after  that  leased  the  La  Salle  Theatre,  Chicago.  He 
then  organized  the  Will  J.  Block  Amusement  Company  which 
has  successfully  exploited  "The  Land  of  Nod,"  "Comin'  Thro' 
the  Rye,"  "Told  in  the  Hills"  and  other  productions. 

BLOSSOM,  Henry  Martyn,  Jr. : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  St.  Louis  May  10,  1866,  and  was 
educated  at  the  Stoddard  School.  Before  taking  to  literary  pur 
suits  Mr.  Blossom  was  in  the  insurance  business.  His  first  con 
spicuous  success  was  his  unique  story,  "The  Documents  of  Evi 
dence."  His  second  was  the  novel  "Checkers,"  which  he  drama 
tized  and  produced  with  remarkable  success  under  the  manage 
ment  of  the  late  Kirke  La  Shelle.  Scarcely  less  successful  was 
Mr.  Blossom's  book  of  "The  Yankee  Consul,"  a  musical  comedy 
produced  by  H.  W.  Savage,  with  Raymond  Hitchcock  in  the  prin 
cipal  part.  He  is  also  the  author  of  "Mile.  Modiste,"  Miss  Fritzi 
Scheff's  successful  comic  opera,  and  "The  Red  Mill,"  in  which 
C.  B.  Dillingham  starred  Montgomery  and  Stone  in  the  1906-7-8 
seasons.  Mr.  Blossom  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs  and  The  Play 
ers.  His  New  York  address  is  23  West  Thirtieth  street. 

BOGART,  Andrew: 

Actor,  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  September  20,  1874, 
and  was  educated  in  his  native  city  and  in  Europe.  He  was  a 
concert  singer  before  going  on  the  stage,  and  made  his  first 


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appearance  at  the  Tivoli  Opera  House,  San  Francisco,  in  May, 
1904,  as  Lopez  in  "The  Serenade."  The  season  of  1905-6  he  was 
seen  as  Edgar  Verney  in  "The  Schoolgirl"  in  London,  and  as 
Gaston  Regault  in  "The  Little  Michus."  The  season  of  1906-7 
he  appeared  as  Pedrillo  in  "The  Girl  and  the  Governor."  Mr. 
Bogart  married  Miss  Lorene  M.  Killer  November  2,  1904.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  B.  P.  O.  Elks  No.  3.  His  address  is  350 
Buchanan  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.  His  summer  home  is  at 
Lynnfield,  Essex  County,  Mass. 

BOND,  Frederick: 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  September  12,  1861,  and 
began  his  career  as  a  call  boy  at  Wallack's  old  theatre, 
Thirteenth  street  and  Broadway,  New  York,  in  1878.  He 
afterward  occupied  a  similar  place  with  the  stock  company  at 
Abbey's  Park  Theatre.  After  a  time  he  was  intrusted  with  util 
ity  parts  and  after  a  season  or  two  of  barnstorming  he  joined 
Sol  Smith  Russell's  company,  playing  the  role  of  the  Tramp  in 
"Edgeworth  Folks."  It  was  during  an  engagement  in  San  Fran 
cisco  with  this  play  in  1884  that  Mr.  Bond  attracted  the  at 
tention  of  the  late  Augustin  Daly,  who  engaged  him  for  his 
stock  company,  with  which  Mr.  Bond  remained  seven  years.  In 
1891  Mr.  Bond  created  the  part  of  Henry  Dickerson  in  "Mr.  Wil 
kinson's  Widows,"  and  he  was  also  seen  later  in  "Thermidor/* 
"Men  and  Women,"  "Gloriana,"  and  "Aristocracy."  The  season 
of  1904-5  he  was  with  Miss  Marie  Jansen  in  "Miss  Dynamite," 
and  succeeding  seasons  was  seen  in  "The  Great  Diamond  Rob 
bery,"  "My  Friend  from  India,"  "The  Old  Coat,"  and  "The 
Cuckoo."  For  more  than  two  seasons  he  played  in  "At  the 
White  Horse  Tavern,"  then  was  with  the  Proctor  Stock  Com 
pany  for  three  years.  He  then  went  into  vaudeville,  following 
this  by  appearances  in  "The  Social  Whirl,"  and  "Fascinating 
Flora"  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1907-3 
he  played  "Handkerchief  No.  15"  in  vaudeville. 

BONITA  (Miss  Pauline  L.  Des  Landes)  : 

Actress,  singer  and  dancer,  was  born  in  Mennan,  Ga.,  De 
cember  2,  1886.  Her  sister  is  known  on  the  stage  as  Miss  Artie 
Hall.  She  was  educated  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  when  she  was  only 
twelve  years  old  she  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage, 
doing  a  dancing  specialty  at  a  vaudeville  house  in  St.  Louis. 
Making  her  first  conspicuous  success  at  Koster  and  Bial's,  New 
York,  she  continued  to  appear  in  vaudeville  until  January  7, 
1901,  when  she  joined  Mortimer  M.  Theise's  "Wine,  Woman  and 
Song"  company,  a  well-known  organization  playing  burlesques. 


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For  four  seasons  Bonita  was  featured,  and  the  season  of  1905-6 
Mr.  Theise  made  her  a  star.  She  appeared  with  the  company 
at  the  New  Circle  Theatre,  New  York,  October  22,  1906,  being  the 
first  attraction  at  that  theatre,  and  achieved  such  notable  suc 
cess  that  she  continued  to  play  there  until  July  of  the  following 
year.  In  addition  to  playing  Genevieve  de  Astorbilt  and  the 
Gibson  Girl  in  tne  satire,  "Going  into  Vaudeville,"  she  imper 
sonated  Miss  Lillian  Russell  and  also  took  the  star  part  in  the 
musical  farce,  "Millinery  Maids."  The  summer  of  1907  she 
signed  a  contract  to  remain  as  a  star  under  the  management  of 
Mr.  Theise  for  five  years. 

BOOTH,  Miss  Hope  (Mrs.  Rennold  Wolf) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Toronto,  Can.,  in  1872,  being  the  daugh 
ter  of  Dr.  W.  Beresford  Hope,  M.P.  She  was  educated  at  the  Con 
vent  of  the  Sacred  Heart,  Montreal,  and  made  her  first  appear 
ance  as  Little  Miss  Cute  at  the  Royalty  Theatre,  London,  under 
her  own  management  when  she  was  only  eighteen  years  old.  She 
also  played  in  "That  Terrible  Girl,"  and  then  appeared  in  this 
country  under  Blaney's  management.  Going  into  vaudeville  she 
toured  this  country  and  Europe  for  several  years.  She  made  her 
most  pronounced  success  in  a  one-act  play  by  George  M.  Cohan, 
entitled  "The  Little  Blonde  Lady,"  playing  this  two  seasons  un 
der  the  management  of  Klaw  and  Erlanger.  Miss  Booth  is  the 
wife  of  Rennold  Wolf,  a  well-known  New  York  newspaper  man. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Actors'  Society  of  America,  the  Actors' 
Church  Alliance,  Professional  Woman's  League,  and  the  Twelfth 
Night  Club.  Her  home  is  342  West  Fifty-sixth  street,  New  York 
City,  and  her  summer  home  is  Little  Blonde  Lady  Island,  Ganau- 
aqua,  Canada. 

BOUCICAULT,  Aubrey: 

Actor,  was  born  in  London  June  23,  1868,  being  the  second 
son  of  the  late  Dion  Boucicault.  He  made  his  first  appearance 
on  the  stage  at  Toole's  Theatre,  London,  in  1888,  and  the  follow 
ing  year  was  at  the  Criterion  Theatre  under  the  management  of 
Charles  Wyndham,  where  he  played  in  the  original  production 
of  "Betsy."  He  was  in  the  cast  of  "Caprice"  at  the  Globe  Thea 
tre  in  1889  and  in  a  revival  of  Bronson  Howard's  "Truth"  at 
the  Criterion  in  1890.  The  same  year  he  came  to  this  country 
and  made  his  first  New  York  appearance  in  "The  English  Rose" 
at  Proctor's  Twenty-third  Street  Theatre.  Several  engagements 
in  comedy  parts  followed  the  one  which  attracted  the  most  at 
tention  being  that  in  support  of  Miss  Camille  D'Arville  in  Stange 
and  Edwards's  "Madeline;  or,  The  Magic  Kiss."  Mr.  Boucicault 


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has  also  starred  in  the  parts  played  by  his  father  in  his  own 
famous  Irish  plays,  and  supported  Otis  Skinner  in  "Francesca 
Di  Rimini."  The  season  of  1905-6  Mr.  Boucicault  appeared  in 
"The  Prodigal  Son,"  "The  Vanderbilt  Cup,"  and  "Arms  and  the 
Man,"  in  which  he  played  Major  Sergius  Saranoff  with  Arnold 
Daly  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1906-7  he 
starred  in  "The  Greater  Love,"  and  then  appeared  with  Joseph 
and  William  W.  Jefferson  in  "Playing  the  Game."  He  has  since 
been  seen  in  vaudeville  in  Byron  Ongley's  one-act  sketch,  "She 
Loves  Me,  She  Loves  Me  Not."  Soon  after  his  arrival  in  Amer 
ica  Mr.  Boucicault  married  Miss  Amy  Busby,  an  actress,  from 
whom  he  was  divorced  in  1895.  He  married  Miss  Ruth  Holt,  an 
actress,  early  in  1907. 

BOWLEY,  Miss  Flora  Juliet: 

Actress,  was  born  in  San  Francisco.  She  is  a  sister  of  Cap 
tain  Bowley,  of  the  United  States  Army,  who  is  now  an  inspector 
at  West  Point.  Miss  Bowley  was  educated  at  Smith  College, 
Northampton,  Mass.,  and  there  her  elocutionary  work  attracted 
the  attention  of  James  K.  Hackett,  who  gave  her  her  first  pro 
fessional  engagement  to  speak  a  few  lines  in  "The  Fortunes  of 
the  King."  She  also  understudied  Mary  Mannering,  and  even 
tually  succeeded  to  the  leading  woman's  part.  The  season  of 
1905-6  Miss  Bowley  played  Kate  Roberts  in  the  No.  2  "The  Lion 
and  the  Mouse"  company  so  successfully  that  in  the  fall  of  1906 
she  was  selected  to  play  Shirley  Rossmore,  the  leading  woman's 
part,  succeeding  Grace  Elliston  in  the  New  York  company  at  the 
Lyceum  Theatre.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  played  Sylvia  Ran- 
dolph  in  "Classmates"  at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New  York. 

BRADY,  W.  A. : 

Manager  was  born  in  San  Francisco  in  1865.  His  father 
was  Terence  A.  Brady,  who  in  1869  joined  the  editorial  staff  of 
the  New  York  Herald.  Finding  himself  penniless  in  Omaha  in 
1882,  after  his  father's  death,  Mr.  Brady  became  a  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad  train  boy.  While  in  San  Francisco  one  day  he 
went  to  the  California  Theatre  and,  telling  Bartley  Campbell 
that  he  was  an  actor,  got  a  place  in  "The  White  Slave."  Max 
Freeman,  the  stage  manager,  recognized  him  as  the  train  boy 
and  discharged  him  as  an  actor,  to  hire  him  as  a  call  boy  at 
seven  dollars  a  week.  Two  weeks  later  Brady  on  the  illness  of 
William  H.  Thompson,  took  his  place  as  Natchez  Jim  in  the 
play.  Brady  sent  out  his  first  company  in  1888  in  a  repertoire 
of  fifteen  plays,  some  pirated,  including  "She,"  dramatized  from 
the  novel  by  Brady  himself.  He  bought  "After  Dark"  from  Dion 


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Boucicault  in  1890  and  starred  in  it  as  Old  Tom.  Then  he  put 
James  J.  Corbett  in  the  cast  before  the  latter  wrested  the  prize 
ring  championship  from  John  L.  Sullivan.  He  produced  "The 
Cotton  King,"  "Humanity,"  and  "Old  Glory,"  and  obtained  the 
rights  to  "Trilby"  outside  of  New  York  and  Chicago,  and  sent 
it  to  Australia.  He  also  produced  "Nero"  with  Wilton  Lackaye 
at  this  time.  He  leased  the  Standard  Theatre,  New  York,  in 
1896,  called  it  the  Manhattan  and  produced  there  "The  Turtle," 
"Mile.  Fifi,"  "The  Manicure,"  "The  Weather  Hen,"  "Women  and 
Wine,"  and  "  'Way  Down  East."  In  1899  he  married  Grace 
George,  an  actress.  In  1901  he  made  an  all-star  revival  of 
"Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"  at  the  Academy  of  Music,  New  York,  with 
Wilton  Lackaye,  Mrs.  Annie  Yeamans  and  John  E.  Kellard  in 
the  company.  The  same  year  he  produced  Clyde  Fitch's  "Lov 
ers'  Lane"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York,  and  "Foxy 
Grandpa,"  which  ran  three  years.  He  helped  stage  an  all-star 
revival  of  "The  Two  Orphans"  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre, 
New  York,  in  1904,  with  Miss  George  as  Louise,  and  staged  an 
original-cast  revival  of  "Trilby"  at  the  same  theatre  in  1905. 
In  1903  he  starred  Wilton  Lackaye  in  a  dramatization  of  Frank 
Norris's  novel,  "The  Pit,"  and  in  1904  he  produced  the  first 
American  performance  of  Ibsen's  "Pillars  of  Society"  in  New 
York  with  Wilton  Lackaye  as  the  star.  In  1901  he  also  pro 
duced  H.  A.  Du  Souchet's  "Betsy  Ross"  in  Philadelphia.  Wil 
ton  Lackaye's  "The  Law  and  the  Man,"  from  Victor  Hugo's  "Les 
Miserables,"  and  Rupert  Hughes's  "The  Richest  Girl  in  the 
World"  were  two  of  his  productions  in  1906.  He  assumed  the 
management  of  Robert  Mantell  in  1905.  He  produced  the  Rev. 
John  Snyder's  "As  Ye  Sow"  in  Boston  in  1905.  Mr.  Brady's  ac 
tivities  are  not  limited  10  the  theatre.  He  has  been  one  of  the 
chief  figures  in  the  development  of  the  new  Coney  Island,  has 
been  the  promoter  of  many  big  sporting  events  at  Madison 
Square  Garden  and  has  managed  many  champion  pugilists. 

BBATTON,  John  Walter: 

Composer,  was  born  in  Wilmington,  Del.,  January  21,  1867, 
being  the  son  of  John  F.  and  Emma  Bratton.  He  was  educated 
at  the  public  schools  of  Wilmington,  and  then  became  a  student 
at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Music.  Mr.  Bratton  has  supplied 
the  music  to  several  musical  comedies,  including  "The  Man  from 
China,"  book  by  Paul  West,  which  was  produced  in  Chicago  in 
1904  and  had  a  run  at  the  Majestic  Theatre,  New  York.  He  has 
also  more  than  two  hundred  popular  songs  to  his  credit,  the 
best  known  of  which  are  "The  Sunshine  of  Paradise  Alley," 
"Henrietta,  Have  You  Met  Her?"  "The  Same  Old  Way,"  "Isa- 


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bella,"  and  "In  a  Cozy  Corner."  Mr.  Bratton  married  Miss 
Dorothy  Zimmerman,  an  actress,  in  1907.  His  home  is  at  103 
West  Fifty-fourth  street,  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Green  Room  Club  of  New  York. 

BREESE,  Edmund: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Brooklyn  June  18,  1870.  He  made  his  first 
stage  appearance  as  the  leading  man  of  a  repertoire  company  in 
the  West  in  1892.  In  1896  he  was  engaged  by  Madame  Rhea  to 
play  the  heavy  parts  in  the  romantic  dramas  in  which  she 
made  so  many  successful  tours  and  soon  became  her  leading 
man.  While  in  her  company  he  played  the  roles  of  Napoleon 
in  "Josephine,"  Lord  Lester  in  "Mary  Stuart,"  Sartorys  in  "Frou 
Frou,"  Benedick  in  "Much  Ado  About  Nothing,"  Chysos  in 
''Pygmalion  and  Galatea,"  and  Shylock  in  "The  Merchant  of 
Venice."  In  1898  he  joined  James  O'Neill's  company,  supporting 
him  in  such  roles  as  Albert  and  Nortier  in  "The  Count  of  Monte 
Cristo,"  Appius  in  "Virginus,"  and  Grebauval  in  "When  Greek 
Meets  Greek."  He  was  next  engaged  by  Liebler  &  Co.  to  play 
Rochefort  in  "The  Three  Musketeers,"  in  which  he  earned  hearty 
commendation.  In  1906  he  made  one  of  the  chief  successes  of 
his  career  as  John  Burkett  Ryder  in  Charles  Klein's  "The  Lion 
and  the  Mouse,"  which  ran  more  than  three  hundred  nights  at 
the  Lyceum  Theatre,  and  was  taken  to  London,  where  it  failed. 
Mr.  Breese  also  appeared  in  "Strongheart"  at  the  Aldwych  Thea 
tre,  London,  and  in  June,  1907,  returned  to  play  in  "The  Lion 
and  the  Mouse"  at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New  York,  and  on  tour. 

BRIAN,  Donald: 

Actor  and  singer,  was  born  in  St.  Johns,  Newfoundland,  be 
ing  the  son  of  the  late  D.  F.  Brian,  formerly  superintendent  of 
the  Street  and  Bridge  Department  of  St.  Johns.  He  made  his 
first  stage  appearance  at  the  age  of  frve  at  a  benefit  given  by 
the  Irish  Society  of  St.  Johns,  held  in  St.  Patrick's  Hall  in  that 
city,  singing  several  songs.  Upon  the  death  of  his  father  he 
went  to  Boston,  Mass..  and  entered  Boston  College,  subsequently 
joining  the  Old  Ivy  Glee  Club,  a  musical  society  of  that  school. 
He  toured  with  the  Glee  Club  in  "Shannon  of  the  Sixth,"  be 
came  stranded  in  Michigan  and,  to  secure  money  for  fare  to 
New  York,  was  forced  to  join  a  medicine  show,  with  a  salary  of 
five  dollars  a  week  and  board.  In  three  months  he  was  able  to 
return  to  New  York,  where  he  appeared  in  "The  Wabash"  with 
Joseph  Arthur.  The  year  following  he  played  the  role  of  the 
Bully  in  "The  New  Boy"  with  Bert  Coote,  and  then  in  "The 
Battle-scarred  Hero."  For  a  season  he  toured  with  "The  Man 


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from  Mexico,"  and  then  became  a  member  of  the  Giffen  Stock 
Company  in  Richmond,  Va.  He  sang  the  baritone  parts  in  road 
companies  of  "The  Belle  of  Broadway,"  "The  Chaperones,"  etc., 
and  later  was  Captain  Donagal  in  "Florodora"  on  the  New  York 
Theatre  roof.  Subsequently  he  succeeded  Cyril  Scott  in  the 
original  "Florodora"  company,  and  in  "The  Silver  Slipper."  Fol 
lowing  a  season  in  "Myles  Aroon,"  on  the  Keith  and  Proctor  cir 
cuit,  he  created  the  role  of  Tom  Bennett  in  "Forty-five  Minutes 
from  Broadway."  In  1907  he  was  leading  man  in  George  Cohan's 
"Fifty  Miles  from  Boston."  The  season  of  1907-8  he  appeared  as 
Prince  Danilo  in  "The  Merry  Widow"  at  the  New  Amsterdam 
Theatre,  New  York. 

BRJTTON,  Miss  Lilian  (Mrs.  Jefferson  Egan) : 

Grand  opera  soprano,  was  born  in  New  York  being  the  only 
daughter  of  the  late  Major  John  Britton  a  veteran  of  the  Civil 
War.  She  received  a  thorough  musical  education  her  voice  being 
developed  by  competent  masters  at  an  early  age.  Like  many 
leading  American  singers,  her  first  work  was  in  a  church  choir. 
As  a  very  young  girl  she  sang  at  St.  Thomas's  Episcopal  Church, 
then  went  to  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  Fifth  avenue,  New  York. 
After  considerable  experience  in  oratorios,  after  a  course  in  the 
American  School  of  Opera,  for  practical  stage  training  she  be 
came  associated  with  several  light  opera  organizations.  The  sea 
son  of  1903-4  she  was  with  Fritzi  Scheff  in  "Babette,"  the  follow 
ing  season  with  Madame  Schumann-Heink  in  "Love's  Lottery," 
and  the  season  of  1905-6  with  Lulu  Glaser  in  "Dolly  Dollars.'' 
She  then  played  the  parts  of  the  late  Caroline  Miskell  Hoyt  in 
the  Hoyt  comedies.  Early  in  1907  when  the  National  Opera 
Company,  composed  of  Italian  and  American  singers,  was  organ 
ized  by  Signer  C.  De  Macchi  to  invade  Italy  she  was  engaged 
for  Santuzza,  Aida  and  similar  parts.  The  season  of  1907-8 
Miss  Britton  was  prima  donna  at  the  Teatro  Nazionale  in  Rome, 
Italy,  singing  all  the  leading  Italian  roles  and  perfecting  her 
study  of  Wagnerian  characters.  Miss  Britton  is  the  wife  of 
Jefferson  Egan,  the  lyric  tenor  singer. 

BROWNE,  Walter: 

Actor,  singer,  and  playwright,  was  born  in  Hull,  Yorkshire, 
England,  May  7,  1856,  being  the  only  son  of  the  late  Dr.  George 
Browne,  who  was  twice  Lord  Mayor  of  York.  He  was  graduated 
from  St.  Peter's  College  and  took  the  degree  of  L.D.S.,  Royal 
College  of  Physicians.  As  an  amateur  Mr.  Browne  founded  the 
York  Garrick  Club.  He  studied  music  in  London  and  in  Italy, 
and  for  some  time  toured  England  giving  pianoforte  and  vocal 


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recitals.  He  made  his  first  professional  appearance  on  the  stage 
at  the  Opera  Comique,  London,  early  in  1881,  creating  the  part 
of  the  Colonel  in  Gilbert  and  Sullivan's  opera,  "Patience,"  which 
he  continued  to  play  throughout  the  run  at  the  Savoy  Theatre, 
London.  He  also  played  Strephon  in  "lolanthe"  at  the  Savoy 
Theatre.  He  sang  many  of  the  principal  baritone  parts  during 
seasons  of  grand  opera  at  Covent  Garden  Theatre  and  the  Crys 
tal  Palace.  Meantime  Mr.  Browne  did  much  magazine  and  dra 
matic  writing.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  The  Yorshireman, 
a  weekly  satirical  paper,  and  for  three  years  was  dramatic 
critic  of  the  London  Evening  Echo.  In  1883  Mr.  Browne  created 
the  principal  role  in  "Gilette  de  Narbonne,"  Audran's  opera, 
with  Miss  Kate  Santley  at  the  Royalty  Theatre,  London.  He  then 
joined  the  company  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  German  Reed's  entertain 
ment,  appearing  with  it  at  St.  George's  Hall,  London,  for  four 
consecutive  years,  during  which  he  wrote  several  of  the  musi 
cal  plays  produced  there.  Mr.  Browne's  first  play,  "Hearts  and 
Homes,"  was  produced  at  the  Theatre  Royal,  York,  England,  in 
1879.  The  same  year  Remington  &  Co.,  of  London,  published  a 
volume  of  poems  by  Mr.  Browne.  He  is  the  author  of  "A  King 
of  Shreds  and  Patches,"  produced  at  the  Theatre  Royal,  Mar 
gate,  in  1880;  "Ripples,"  Theatre  Royal,  York,  1880;  "The 
Miser's  Bride,"  produced  in  1880;  "A  Love  Game,"  played  over 
nine  hundred  times  at  Toole's  Theatre,  London;  "A  Wet  Day," 
produced  at  the  Vaudeville  Theatre  in  1884,  and  played  at  the 
Gaiety  Theatre,  London,  three  hundred  and  thirty-eight  times; 
"Fits  and  Starts,"  and  "Blue  Ribbons,"  both  produced  at  the 
Gaiety,  London;  "Clarice,"  produced  by  Lewis  Waller  at  the 
Strand  Theatre,  1885;  "Wedded,"  Imperial  Theatre,  London. 
1886;  "Helter  Skelter,"  Theatre  Royal,  Sheffield,  1887;  "Once 
Again,"  Court  Theatre,  1888;  "The  Bo'sun's  Mate,"  "In  Posses 
sion,"  and  "Mates,"  all  produced  at  St.  George's  Hall;  "Hearts," 
produced  by  Miss  Maude  Branscombe,  1889;  "Photographic  Fun," 
and  many  other  plays  produced  in  London  and  the  English 
provinces.  He  also  wrote  "The  Next  Day,"  produced  in  this 
country  by  Harry  Lacy.  He  compiled  and  edited  "The  Dramatic 
and  Musical  Directory  of  the  United  Kingdom,"  published  in 
London,  and  "Who's  Who  on  the  Stage,"  published  in  this  coun 
try.  He  is  the  author  of  two  novels,  "Joe  Buskin,  Comedian," 
published  in  London,  and  "The  Fossil  Man,"  published  by  Dil- 
lingham,  New  York.  In  1889  Mr.  Browne  went  to  South  Amer 
ica  as  principal  baritone  of  the  first  English  opera  company  to 
visit  Argentina,  Uruguay  and  Brazil.  Returning  to  London  he 
appeared  in  a  vaudeville  sketch  of  his  own  at  all  the  leading 
music  halls,  then  went  to  South  Africa,  where  he  was  for  some 


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time  a  member  of  the  Johannesburg  Stock  Exchange.  There 
he  organized  the  Standard  Opera  Company  and  played  all  the 
principal  cities.  From  Africa  he  came  to  this  country,  making 
his  first  appearance  as  Grosvenor  in  "Patience"  with  Harry 
Dixey  at  Palmer's  Theatre,  New  York,  September,  1892.  He 
played  in  a  round  of  operas  there,  then  became  leading  baritone 
with  Miss  Marie  Tempest  in  De  Koven's  "The  Algerian"  at 
Daly's  Theatre,  New  York,  and  on  tour.  In  1894  Mr.  Browne 
joined  the  editorial  staff  of  the  New  York  World,  and  has  since 
been  known  as  a  newspaper  man  and  writer  of  short  stories,  and 
on  dramatic  subjects.  Mr.  Browne  married  in  1878  Ellen  Phillis 
Wilberforce,  of  York,  England.  A  divorce  followed,  and  in  Feb 
ruary,  1896,  he  married  Miss  Clarissa  Elizabeth  Thome,  of  Long 
Branch,  N.  J. 

BUCKLEY,  Miss  Annie : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  being  the  daughter  of 
the  late  E.  J.  Buckley  who,  for  a  number  of  years,  supported 
Mary  Anderson.  Miss  Buckley  made  her  first  stage  appearance 
in  the  middle  90's  as  Phyllis  in  "The  Lady  Slavey"  and  then 
joined  E.  E.  Rice's  company,  playing  the  part  of  Ruth  in  "The 
Girl  from  Paris,"  after  which  she  was  seen  as  Louisa  Jupp  in 
the  revival  of  "The  Great  Ruby."  The  season  of  1900-1  Miss 
Buckley  was  engaged  for  the  American  Theatre  Stock  Company, 
and  the  one  following  she  went  on  the  road  with  "At  Cripple 
Creek."  The  season  of  1902-3  she  appeared  with  the  Harry 
Davis  Stock  Company  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  then  supported  Miss 
Marie  Cahill  in  "Nancy  Brown."  She  was  seen  in  George  Ade's 
"The  County  Chairman,"  remaining  with  that  play  three  years, 
and  during  the  season  of  1906-7  she  played  the  role  of  Flourette 
in  "Marrying  Mary,"  also  with  Miss  Cahill. 

BUCKLEY,  Miss  May: 

Actress,  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  December  15, 
1880,  while  her  parents  were  visiting  in  that  city.  Her  mother, 
who  died  at  her  daughter's  birth,  was  of  English  and  her  father 
ol'  German  descent.  Miss  Buckley  spent  her  childhood  in  New 
York,  where  she  received  her  education.  Her  first  appearance 
on  the  stage  was  as  a  child  in  "May  Blossom"  in  San  Fran 
cisco  prior  to  her  coming  to  New  York.  The  late  Dion  Bouci- 
cault,  who  was  a  friend  of  Miss  Buckley's  father,  was  instru 
mental  in  getting  for  her  her  first  engagement  on  the  profes 
sional  stage.  After  playing  in  Booth  and  Barrett's  company  for 
two  years  Miss  Buckley  appeared  in  "The  Burglar"  and  then 
joined  the  stock  company  of  the  Alcazar  Theatre,  San  Francisco. 


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She  there,  in  1897,  so  impressed  David  Belasco  by  her  playing 
of  the  leading  role  in  "The  First  Born"  that  he  bought  the  play 
and  engaged  Miss  Buckley  to  star  in  it  in  New  York.  Roles  in 
support  of  John  Drew  and  Annie  Russell,  parts  in  "On  and  Off," 
"Hearts  Are  Trumps,"  "Caleb  West,"  "The  Price  of  Peace,"  and 
engagements  with  James  O'Neill,  "A  Japanese  Nightingale"  com 
pany,  Wright  Lorimer's  "The  Shepherd  King"  company,  and 
William  Collier's  "On  the  Quiet"  company  occupied  the  ensuing 
seasons  until  the  fall  of  1905  when  Miss  Buckley  went  to  Lon 
don.  In  the  season  of  3906  she  played  with  Raymond  Hitch 
cock  in  "The  Galloper"  until  the  summer  when  she  went  to 
Denver,  Colo.,  to  fill  a  stock  engagement  at  Elitch's  Gardens. 
The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  seen  as  Rosalie  in  "The  Right  of 
Way,"  produced  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  November  3, 
1907.  Her  home  in  New  York  is  at  2  West  Thirty-ninth  street. 

BUCKSTONE,  Eowland: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Sydenham,  near  London,  England,  in 
1861,  being  a  son  of  the  late  John  Baldwin  Buckstone,  for  thirty 
years  lessee  and  manager  of  the  Theatre  Royal,  Haymarket, 
London,  one  of  the  most  prolific  dramatic  authors  and  consid 
ered  the  most  popular  comedian  of  the  Victorian  era.  As  an 
amateur  Rowland  Buckstone  made  his  first  appearance  at  the 
age  of  nine  as  Anna  Maria,  a  maid-servant,  in  the  farce,  "Ici 
on  Parle  Franchise."  His  first  professional  appearance  was  with 
his  father  in  the  latter's  farewell  of  the  English  provinces  in 
1877,  he  playing  character  parts  in  the  old  comedies.  He  after 
ward  was  with  the  Chippendales  from  1878  to  1880,  playing  Tony 
Lumpkin,  Bob  Acres,  Henry  Dove,  Benjamin  Bunter,  Cousin  Joe, 
Toby  Twinkle,  and  Sir  Benjamin  Backbite.  His  first  appearance 
in  London  was  in  the  melodrama,  "The  New  Babylon,"  at  the 
Duke's  Theatre,  which  was  destroyed  by  fire  at  the  height  of 
the  drama's  successful  run.  After  a  season  at  Sadler's  Wells. 
Theatre  with  the  late  Mrs.  Bateman,  appearing  as  Dibbles  in 
his  father's  drama,  "The  Good  for  Nothing";  Box  in  "Box  and 
Cox,"  Peter  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet,"  etc.,  he  went  to  the  old 
Prince  of  Wales's  Theatre,  and  for  two  consecutive  years,  from. 
1880  to  1882,  played  Basil  Girgione  in  "The  Colonel"  without 
being  once  out  of  the  cast.  This  was  considered  a  record  at 
that  time.  Mr.  Buckstone  then  supported  Fanny  Davenport  in 
"Pique,"  the  late  Dion  Boucicault  in  "The  Colleen  Bawn,"  and 
Mary  Anderson,  appearing  with  her  in  "Pygmalion  and  Gala 
tea,"  "Ingomar,"  "The  Lady  of  Lyons,"  and  "Comedy  and 
Tragedy."  His  next  appearance  was  as  Knickerbocker  with  the 
late  Fred  Leslie  in  the  comic  opera,  "Rip  Van  Winkle."  He  then. 


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with  his  sister  Lucy,  produced  "She  Stoops  to  Conquer."  Mr. 
Buckstone  came  to  America  in  1884,  appearing  as  Amminabad 
Streyke  in  "The  Colonel"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New 
York.  He  then  made  a  long  tour  under  the  management  of 
Charles  Frohman,  playing  principal  comedy  parts  in  "Lady 
Clare,"  "Victor  Durand,"  "The  World,"  "The  Two  Orphans," 
and  "Esmeralda."  Returning  to  New  York,  Mr.  Buckstone  ap 
peared  in  "The  Enchantress,"  and  with  the  McKee  Rankin  Stock 
Company.  In  1887  he  supported  Clara  Morris,  and  the  same 
year  appeared  with  Helen  Dauvray  as  Anatole  in  a  revival  of 
"The  Scrap  of  Paper."  Mr.  Buckstone  joined  E.  H.  Sothern  in 
1887,  and  has  been  with  him  ever  since,  a  period  of  nineteen 
years,  which  is  probably  the  longest  engagement  on  record. 
He  created  the  parts  of  Col.  Sapt  in  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda," 
Col.  Jack  Dexter  in  "The  Master  of  Woodbarrow,"  Tommy  Tucker 
in  "Lord  Chumley,"  Daniel  Graham  in  "The  Trap  to  Win  a 
Woman,"  101  in  "  'Change  Alley,"  Jorkins  in  "Captain  Lettar- 
blair,"  the  Mikelmann  in  "The  Sunken  Bell,"  the  Executioner 
in  "The  Proud  Prince,"  Guy  Lambert  in  "If  I  Were  King,"  La- 
porte  in  "The  Song  of  the  Sword,"  and  Michael  Kelly  in  "Sheri 
dan."  In  the  Sothern-Marlowe  company  Mr.  Buckstone  plays 
Dogberry,  Sir  Toby  Belch,  Launcelot  Gobbo,  Peter,  the  First 
Gravedigger  and  other  Shakespearian  comedy  parts.  Mr.  Buck- 
stcne  is  a  member  of  The  Players. 

BURGESS,  Neil: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  June  29,  1846.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  school  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  made 
his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  1865  with  Spalding's  Bell 
Ringers,  a  series  of  vaudeville  acts,  in  which  he  played  a  minor 
part.  He  was  forced  one  evening  to  assume  a  female  part,  ow 
ing  to  the  illness  of  one  of  the  company.  He  made  a  hit  and 
has  been  a  delineator  of  female  characters  ever  since.  His  first 
marked  success  in  this  line  was  in  "Vim,"  in  which  he  appeared 
as  Betsy  Puffy.  Then  followed  "The  Widow  Bedott,"  which 
served  him  for  over  ten  years.  Mr.  Burgess  afterward  pro 
duced  his  famous  "The  County  Fair,"  in  which  he  played  Abigail 
Prue.  He  has  also  been  seen  in  "The  Year  One,"  and  "The  Odd 
Miss  Podd."  Mr.  Burgess  has  temporarily  retired  from  the 
stage. 

BURKE,  Miss  Billie  (Ethel  Burke) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  August  7,  1886,  her 
father  and  mother,  William  E.  and  Blanche  Burke,  having  been 
on  the  stage.  She  was  educated  in  France,  where  she  studied 


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singing  and  languages.  She  first  attracted  attention  while  sing 
ing  at  the  Pavilion,  London,  England.  Her  first  appearance  on 
the  legitimate  stage  was  in  the  pantomime,  "Beauty  and  the 
Beast,"  at  Glasgow,  Scotland.  After  a  season  or  two  in  the  Eng 
lish  provinces  she  was  engaged  by  George  Edwardes  for  the 
part  of  Mamie  Rockefeller  in  "The  Schoolgirl."  During  this 
engagement  she  became  popular  by  her  singing  of  "My  Little 
Canoe."  She  played  Lizette  in  "The  Duchess  of  Dantzic"  at  the 
Lyric  Theatre,  London,  and  Renee  in  the  touring  company.  In 
the  season  of  1905  she  appeared  in  "The  Blue  Moon"  at  the  Lyric 
Theatre,  London.  After  that  she  was  seen  in  a  revue  at  the 
Coliseum,  London,  and  then  went  back  to  vaudeville.  The  sea 
son  of  1906  she  played  the  title  role  in  "The  Belle  of  Mayfair" 
in  London,  and  at  Easter  appeared  as  leading  woman  to  Charles 
Hawtrey  in  "Mr.  George"  at  the  Vaudeville  Theatre,  London. 
At  the  same  theatre  she  played  Stella,  the  principal  part  in 
"Mrs.  Ponderbury's  Past,"  making  such  a  success  that  she  was 
engaged  by  Charles  Frohman  for  the  part  of  Beatrice  Dupre, 
the  leading  role  in  "My  Wife,"  opening  with  John  Drew  at  the 
Empire  Theatre,  New  York,  September  7,  1907.  Miss  Burke's 
principal  hobbies  are  automobiling  and  horseback  riding.  Her 
home  is  at  34  Queen's  road,  London,  N.  W. 

BURNETT,   Mrs.   Frances    Hodgson    (Mrs.    Stephen   Town- 
send)  : 

Playwright,  was  born  Frances  Eliza  Hodgson  at  Manches 
ter,  England,  November  24,  1849.  When  she  was  sixteen  years 
old  her  family  came  to  the  United  States  and  settled  in  Knox- 
ville,  Tenn.  Two  years  later,  in  1867,  she  began  writing  for 
magazines.  Miss  Hodgson  was  married  to  Dr.  L.  M.  Burnett 
in  1873,  and  they  made  their  home  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  in 
1875.  In  1898  Mrs.  Burnett  obtained  a  divorce  and  in  1900  she 
married  Stephen  Townsend,  an  English  author.  Mrs.  Burnett's 
first  novel  was  "That  Lass  o'  Lowrie's,"  published  in  1877.  The 
same  year  she  produced  "Dolly,  a  Love  Story,"  "Kathleen,"  and 
"Surly  Tim."  "Haworth's"  was  published  in  1879,  "Louisiana" 
in  1880,  "A  Fair  Barbarian"  in  1881,  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy" 
in  1886,  and  "Editha's  Burglar"  in  1888.  Her  most  popular 
plays  have  been  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy,"  "The  Showman's 
Daughter,"  "Esmeralda,"  "The  First  Gentleman  of  Europe,'" 
"Editha's  Burglar,"  "Nixie,"  and  "A  Lady  of  Quality,"  written 
in  collaboration  with  Mr.  Townsend.  Some  of  Mrs.  Burnett's 
most  recent  novels  are  "In  Connection  with  the  Willoughby 
Claim,"  1899;  "The  Making  of  a  Marchioness,"  1901,  and  "The 
Little  Unfairy  Princess,"  1902.  She  is  the  editor  of  The  Chil- 


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dren's  Magazine.  Her  address  in  this  country  is  1770  Massachu 
setts  avenue,  Washington,  D.  C.  Her  home  in  England  is  May- 
tham  Hall,  Rolvenden,  Kent. 

BURROUGHS,  Miss  Marie  (Mrs.  R.  B.  Macpherson) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  CaL,  in  1866,  her  maiden 
name  being  Lillie  Arrington.  When  only  seventeen  years  old 
Miss  Arrington  had  won  success  in  readings  and  recitals  at 
private  gatherings  in  San  Francisco,  and  at  one  of  these  Law 
rence  Barrett  was  so  impressed  with  her  ability  that  he  tele 
graphed  A.  M.  Palmer  and  obtained  an  engagement  for  the  girl 
in  "The  Rajah,"  which  was  being  played  at  the  Madison  Square 
Theatre,  New  York.  On  the  arrival  of  Miss  Burroughs  the  leading 
woman  having  been  taken  suddenly  ill,  the  novice  was  entrusted 
with  the  part  of  Gladys  and  thus,  in  1884,  Miss  Burroughs  made 
her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  an  important  emotional  role. 
Her  next  part  was  Irma  in  "Alpine  Roses."  After  that  she  was 
entrusted  with  leading  parts  in  "Hazel  Kirke,"  "Esmeralda," 
"After  the  Ball,"  and  "Mrs.  Winthrop."  While  in  New  Orleans 
Miss  Burroughs  played  Zicka  in  "Diplomacy"  with  Wallack's 
company  at  forty-eight  hours'  notice.  Miss  Burroughs  then 
played  Pauline  March  in  "Called  Back"  with  Robert  Mantell  in 
New  York,  and  with  A.  M.  Palmer's  company  at  the  Madison 
Square  Theatre  created  the  part  of  Queen  Guinevere  in  "Elaine" 
with  Alexander  Salvini.  She  also  played  Lettie  in  "Saints  and 
Sinners"  during  this  engagement.  Miss  Burroughs  went  to 
London  in  1890  and  was  engaged  to  support  E.  S.  Willard  on 
his  American  tour,  opening  in  "The  Middleman"  as  Mary  Blen- 
karn.  Miss  Burroughs  subsequently  supported  Mr.  Willard  sev 
eral  seasons,  playing  Vashti  Dethic  in  "Judah,"  Edith  Ruddock 
in  "Wealth,"  Kate  Norbury  in  "John  Needham's  Double,"  Lucy 
in  "The  Professor's  Love  Story,"  and  Ophelia  in  "Hamlet."  In 
1890  Miss  Burroughs  became  the  wife  of  Louis  F.  Massen.  In 
1894  she  starred  in  Pinero's  "The  Profligate"  and  produced  "Ro 
meo  and  Juliet,"  and  "Leah."  In  1899  she  appeared  with  Stuart 
Robson  in  "The  Meddler,"  and  she  was  also  his  leading  woman 
in  "The  Gadfly."  She  also  starred  in  "The  Battle  of  the  Strong" 
in  1901.  In  1901  Miss  Burroughs  was  married  to  Robert  Bar 
clay  Macpherson  of  New  York.  Her  home  is  at  261  West  Ninety- 
third  street,  New  York. 

BURT,  Miss  Laura  (Mrs.  Henry  Stanford) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Ramsey,  Isle  of  Man,  near  England, 
in  1882.  Her  father,  Captain  Brown  Burt,  was  an  Englishman, 
born  in  Bristol,  and  her  mother,  Ann  Lloyd  Burt,  was  Welsh, 


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having  been  born  in  Carnarvon.  Miss  Burt's  first  pronounced 
success  in  this  country  was  in  the  part  of  June  in  Paul  Arthur's 
play,  "Blue  Jeans."  She  then  appeared  as  Madge  in  "In  Old 
Kentucky,"  a  part  which  she  played  several  seasons  through 
out  the  United  States  and  Canada,  and  also  for  a  season  in 
England.  On  March  2,  1902,  Miss  Burt  became  the  wife  of  Henry 
Stanford  an  actor  in  Sir  Henry  Irving's  company.  The  marriage 
took  place  in  New  York,  and  Miss  Burt,  joining  Sir  Henry's 
company,  played  Helen  of  Swabia  in  "Dante"  throughout  the 
run  at  the  Drury  Lane  Theatre,  London,  and  during  the  last 
tour  of  the  famous  English  actor  in  this  country.  Among  many 
parts  played  by  Miss  Burt  she  has  made  her  most  pronounced 
successes  as  Dolores  in  "In  the  Palace  of  the  King,"  as  Glory 
Quayle  in  "The  Christian,"  as  Juliet,  as  Portia  in  "The  Mer 
chant  of  Venice,"  as  Rosalind  in  "As  You  Like  It,"  and  as 
Camille.  The  season  of  1906-7  Miss  Burt,  jointly  with  her  hus 
band,  starred  in  "Dorothy  Vernon  of  Haddon  Hall"  under  the 
management  of  Ernest  Shipman.  She  starred  in  "The  Walls  of 
Jericho"  the  season  of  1907-8.  Miss  Burt's  address  is  301  St. 
Nicholas  avenue,  New  York.  She  is  a  life  member  of  the  Pro 
fessional  Woman's  League. 

BURT,  Miss  Harriet: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  October  15,  1885,  her 
parents  being  William  J.  and  Marguerite  Welsh.  She  was  edu 
cated  at  the  public  schools  of  Troy  and  made  her  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  as  a  show  girl  in  "The  Jewel  of  Asia"  at  the 
Criterion  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1903.  After  six  weeks  in  that 
company  she  was  chosen  to  create  the  part  of  the  New  York 
Girl  in  "The  Prince  of  Pilsen,"  which  she  played  for  six  months. 
After  a  time  with  George  Lederer's  "Jersey  Lily,"  Miss  Burt 
played  the  title  role  in  "Louisiana"  for  six  months.  She  was 
then  seen  in  "All  Round  Chicago  in  Eighty  Minutes."  The  sea 
son  of  1905-6  she  was  with  "The  Gingerbread  Man"  company. 
The  following  season  she  was  with  Lew  Fields  in  "It  Happened 
in  Nordland,"  taking  the  part  originally  played  by  Miss  Helen 
Bertram.  After  six  months  in  this  company  she  joined  "His 
Honor  the  Mayor"  company,  playing  the  part  created  by  Miss 
Blanche  Ring  the  season  of  1906-7.  The  early  part  of  1907  she 
created  the  parts  of  Mrs.  Telcott  in  "The  Time,  The  Place  and 
The  Girl,"  playing  it  throughout  a  long  run  in  Chicago;  four 
weeks,  commencing  August  4,  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  the  balance  of  the  season  of  1907-8  on  tour.  Miss  Burt's 
favorite  recreations  are  motoring  and  all  outdoor  sports.  Her 


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permanent   address   is   Troy,    N.    Y.     Her    summer    home    is    at 
Saratoga,  N.  Y. 

SUTLER,,  Miss  Alice  (Mrs.  Charles  W.  Butler) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  London,  England,  November  4,  1868, 
being  the  daughter  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  Augarde  and  the 
sister  of  Amy  and  Adrienne  Augarde,  well-known  English  ac 
tresses.  She  made  her  first  appearance  with  the  Yokes  com 
pany  in  September,  1891,  and  for  successive  seasons  was  with 
Richard  Mansfield  in  second  leading  roles;  the  Pittsburg  Stock 
Company;  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell,  playing  Afrida  in  "The  Sor 
ceress";  with  Mme.  Kalich  playing  Countess  Olga  in  "Fedora"; 
Miss  Crosman  in  "Mary,  Mary  Quite  Contrary,"  and  Miss  Man- 
nering  in  "Glorious  Betsy."  The  spring  of  1907  she  was  in 
stock  company  at  the  Belasco  Theatre,  Washington,  D.  C.,  play 
ing  the  Duchess  of  Strood  in  "The  Gay  Lord  Quex."  She  was 
married  to  Charles  W.  Butler  in  1893.  Miss  Butler's  favorite 
recreation  is  music.  Her  home  is  at  2731  Broadway,  New  York 
City. 

BUTLER,  Fred.  J.  (Alfred  Joline  Butler) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  San  Francisco  October  22,  1867,  and 
was  graduated  from  the  University  of  California.  He  made  his 
first  appearance  at  Oakland,  Cal.,  January  3,  1887,  in  "A  Cele 
brated  Case."  The  following  year  he  appeared  with  William 
Gillette  in  "Held  by  the  Enemy."  For  several  seasons  he  was 
character  actor  with  James  O'Neill,  and  then  became  a  mem 
ber  of  David  Hunt's  stock  company  in  Cincinnati.  In  1901  he 
became  stage  director  of  the  stock  company  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House,  San  Francisco,  and  two  years  later  took  a  similar  posi 
tion  with  Belasco  and  Mayer's  Alcazar  Stock.  Mr.  Butler  mar 
ried  Miss  Adele  Belgarde,  an  actress. 

BYRNE,  Francis: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Newport,  R.  I.,  August  3,  1875,  and  made 
his  first  stage  appearance  with  Modjeska,  playing  such  roles  as 
Gaston  in  "Camille,"  Sebastian  in  "The  Twelfth  Night,"  Lucio 
in  "Measure  for  Measure,"  etc.  He  then  joined  Daniel  Frawley's 
stock  company  in  San  Francisco  as  leading  juvenile.  The  sea 
son  of  1901-2  he  appeared  with  Ethel  Barrymore  in  "Captain 
Jinks,"  and  that  of  1902-3  in  "Sky  Farm."  The  seasons  of 
1903-4-5  he  was  seen  with  Maude  Adams  in  "The  Pretty  Sister 
of  Jose,"  and  as  the  Reporter  in  "The  Other  Girl."  The  season 
of  1905-6  he  was  a  member  of  the  Empire  Stock  Company,  Bos 
ton,  Mass.  He  appeared  as  Dick  Crawford  in  "The  Chorus  Lady" 


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with  Rose  Stahl  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York,  September  1, 
1906,  and  played  the  same  part  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8. 

BYRON,  Arthur  William: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Brooklyn  April  3,  1872,  being  the  son  of 
Oliver,  a  well-known  actor,  and  Mary  Kate  (Crehan)  Byron, 
and  a  nephew  of  Ada  Rehan,  the  well-known  actress.  He  was 
educated  at  St.  Pauls  School,  Garden  City,  Long  Island,  and 
made  his  first  appearance  as  an  actor  November  24,  1889.  After 
a  long  and  varied  experience  in  stock  and  other  companies,  Mr. 
Byron  gradually  climbed  the  ladder  until,  as  leading  man,  he 
became  associated  with  the  companies  of  John  Drew,  Mary  Man- 
nering,  Amelia  Bingham,  Sol  Smith  Russell,  Maxine  Elliott  and 
Maude  Adams.  The  season  of  1905-6  Mr.  Byron  played  John 
Burkett  Ryder  in  the  Western  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse"  com 
pany,  impersonating  throughout  a  long  run  in  Chicago  the  char 
acter  created  by  Edmund  Breese  in  New  York  a  part  in  which 
Oliver  Byron  replaced  his  son  in  the  fall  season  of  1906.  On 
Septemb  26,  1907,  he  appeared  as  Mind  in  "The  Struggle  Ever 
lasting"  at  the  Hackett  Theatre,  New  York.  The  balance  of  the 
season  of  1907-8  he  supported  Miss  Ethel  Barrymore  in  "Her 
Sister."  Mr.  Byron  is  a  member  of  the  New  York  Athletic  Club, 
The  Lambs,  and  The  Players.  His  home  is  at  Monmouth  Beach, 
N.  J. 

BYRON,  Oliver  Doud : 

Was  born  in  Maryland  November  14,  1842.  He  first  ap 
peared  on  the  stage  as  a  schoolboy  in  "Nicholas  Nickleby"  with 
Joseph  Jefferson  at  the  Holliday  Street  Theatre,  Baltimore,  un 
der  the  management  of  John  T.  Ford  on  January  21,  1856.  He 
played  boy  parts  with  Charlotte  Cushman  and  other  stars,  and 
was  for  two  seasons  with  the  old  Richmond  Theatre  Company, 
Richmond,  Va.,  with  Edwin  Adams  and  John  Wilkes  Booth. 
After  five  years  of  hard  study  he  became  a  leading  man,  sup 
porting  Edwin  Booth  and  acting  lago  and  Othello  alternately. 
He  supported  Charles  Dillon,  J.  H.  Hackett,  Laura  Keene  and 
Mrs.  Scott  Siddons  as  Romeo,  Macbeth,  Ingomar  and  other  char 
acters.  He  starred  in  1870  in  "Across  the  Continent,"  and  in 
the  next  thirty  years  played  leading  roles  in  all  the  well-known 
romantic  dramas.  To  Mr.  Byron  the  stage  owes  the  first  ap 
pearance  of  Ada  Rehan.  It  was  in  1874  that,  a  member  of  his 
"Across  the  Continent"  company  falling  ill  while  playing  in 
Newark,  N.  J.,  he  called  her  in  to  play  the  part  of  the  absent 
one.  She  was  then  fourteen  years  old.  He  subsequently  sub- 
starred  her  at  Wood's  Museum  in  "The  Thoroughbred"  and  in 


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"The  Rebel."  It  was  her  acting  in  these  plays  that  first  at 
tracted  the  attention  of  Augustin  Daly.  At  her  last  appearance 
in  New  York  Mr.  Byron  was  one  of  her  leading  supports.  The 
season  of  1905-6  he  was  with  Henry  E.  Dixey  in  "The  Man  on 
the  Box."  The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  he  played  John  Burkett 
Ryder  in  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse"  under  the  management  of 
Henry  B.  Harris.  Mr.  Byron  married  in  1868  Mary  Kate  Cre- 
han,  a  sister  of  Ada  Rehan,  the  actress. 

CAHILL  Miss  Marie  (Mrs.  Daniel  V.  Arthur) : 

Comedienne,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  None  of  her 
relatives  were  connected  with  the  stage,  and  she  had  had  no 
experience  when  she  made  her  first  appearance  in  her  native 
city  at  the  little  theatre  where  Harley  Merry,  the  famous  scenic 
artist,  was  conducting  a  stock  company.  Her  first  part  was  a 
soubrette  role  in  "Kathleen  Mavourneen,"  an  Irish  romantic 
drama.  The  first  musical  play  in  which  Miss  Cahill  took  part 
was  Charles  Hoyt's  "A  Tin  Soldier."  She  played  the  part  of 
Patsy,  her  work  consisting  mostly  of  dancing.  She  next  played 
several  parts  in  the  productions  of  George  Lederer,  attracting 
much  attention  by  her  singing  of  such  songs  as  "Nancy  Brown" 
and  "Under  the  Bamboo  Tree."  "Nancy  Brown"  furnished  the 
title  for  a  musical  comedy  wrritten  by  George  Broadhurst  and 
Frederick  Rankin,  with  music  by  Silvio  Hein  and  George  Had- 
ley,  in  which  Miss  Cahill  first  became  a  star  in  the  season  of 
1902-3  under  the  management  of  Daniel  V.  Arthur,  whose  wife 
she  subsequently  became.  The  following  season  she  starred  in 
"Molly  Moonshine,"  by  Edwin  Milton  Royle  and  George  V.  Ho- 
bart.  Miss  Cahill  scored  the  greatest  success  of  her  career  as 
Mary  Montgomery  in  the  musical  comedy,  "Marrying  Mary," 
produced  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York  in  August,  1906.  This 
play  was  originally  written  for  his  wife  by  Edwin  Milton  Royle 
and  produced  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  in 
1903  under  the  title  of  "My  Wife's  Husbands."  Mr.  Royle  then 
transformed  it  into  a  musical  comedy,  with  lyrics  by  Benjamin 
Hapgood  Burt  and  music  by  Silvio  Hein.  Miss  Cahill  again 
used  this  play  as  her  starring  vehicle  for  the  season  of  1907-8, 
touring  Canada,  the  Northwest,  the  Pacific  Coast  and  Western 
cities.  Miss  Cahill's  address  is  care  of  D.  V.  Arthur,  1402 
Broadway,  New  York. 

CAINE,  Hall  (Thomas  Henry  Hall  Caine) : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Douglas,  Isle  of  Man,  May  14,  1853. 
He  was  educated  there  and  in  Liverpool  for  the  profession  of 
an  architect,  but  became  a  newspaper  man  on  the  staff  of  the 


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Liverpool  Mercury.  His  first  novel,  "The  Shadow  of  a  Crime," 
was  published  in  1885.  His  first  dramtic  production  was  "The 
Deemster,"  dramatized  from  his  novel  by  himself  and  the  late 
Wilson  Barrett,  and  produced  in  1888.  Wilson  Barrett  also  as 
sisted  in  the  dramatization  of  "The  Manxman,"  produced  in 
1895.  Of  his  other  novels,  dramatized  by  himself,  "The  Chris 
tian"  was  produced  in  1898  and  "The  Eternal  City"  in  1902. 
"The  Prodigal  Son"  in  1905  and  "The  Bondman"  in  1906.  His 
home  is  Greeba  Castle,  Isle  of  Man. 

CALVE,  Mme.  Emma: 

Grand  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  in  Aveyron,  in  the 
south  of  France,  in  1864.  Her  mother  was  a  French  woman  and 
her  father  a  Spaniard.  He  died  when  she  was  sixteen  years 
old.  She  then  went  to  Paris  to  study  singing.  She  made  her 
first  public  appearance  at  a  benefit  at  Nice  in  1881,  and  made 
her  professional  debut  the  following  year  at  the  Theatre  de  la 
Monnaie  at  Brussels  in  Massenet's  "Herodiade,"  with  indiffer 
ent  success.  A  tour  through  Italy  followed,  and  there  she  saw 
Duse  act.  She  studied  the  Italian  actress's  methods,  and  as  a 
result  made  her  first  marked  success  as  Ophelie  in  Thomas's 
"Hamlet."  In  1884  she  first  appeared  in  Paris  in  "Aben  Hamet." 
She  achieved  her  greatest  successes  there  at  the  Opera  Comique 
as  Carmen  and  as  Santuzza  in  "Cavalleria  Rusticana."  She  first 
appeared  in  London  in  1892  at  the  Royal  Italian  Opera.  She 
made  her  first  appearance  in  this  country  on  December  20,  1893, 
at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New  York,  as  Carmen  and 
made  an  instantaneous  success.  Since  then  she  has  been  with 
the  Abbey,  Schoeffel,  Grau  or  the  Conried  managements  almost 
every  season.  In  1905-6-7  she  made  tours  of  the  States  at  the 
head  of  a  concert  company  under  the  management  of  John 
Cort.  Her  home  is  at  the  Chateau  Cabrieres,  Cevennes,  France. 

CAMPBELL,  Mrs.  Patrick  (Beatrice  Stella) : 

Actress,  was  born  at  Forest  House,  Kensington,  London, 
England,  February  9,  1867,  being  the  daughter  of  John  Tanner 
and  Luigia  (Romanini)  Tanner.  She  was  educated  at  private 
schools  in  England  and  Paris.  In  1884  she  was  married  to 
Patrick  Campbell,  of  Straumer,  N.  B.,  the  second  son  of  Patrick 
Campbell,  manager  of  the  Bank  of  India  at  Hong  Kong.  Her 
husband  was  killed  in  the  South  African  War  in  1900.  She  has 
one  son,  Alan  Urquhart,  formerly  a  cadet  in  the  British  Navy 
and  now  an  undergraduate  at  Oxford,  and  one  daughter,  Stella, 
who  recently  was  married  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  her  husband 
being  only  two  years  her  senior.  Mrs.  Campbell  first  appeared 


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with  the  Anomalies  Amateur  Dramatic  Club  at  West  Norwood, 
London,  in  1886,  and  a  year  later  began  her  professional  career, 
touring  England  with  the  Ben  Greet  and  Bandmann-Palmer  com 
panies.  She  first  attracted  marked  attention  by  creating  the 
title  part  in  "The  Second  Mrs.  Tanqueray"  with  George  Alexan 
der  at  St.  James's  Theatre,  London,  in  1893.  She  later  appeared 
with  Beerbohm  Tree  in  "John  O'Dreams"  and  with  John  Hare 
in  "The  Notorious  Mrs.  Ebbsmith."  In  1896  she  played  Juliet 
to  the  Romeo  of  Forbes  Robertson  at  the  Lyceum,  and  two  years 
later  toured  Germany  with  him  in  Shakespearian  plays.  In 
1900  she  leased  the  Royalty  Theatre,  London,  producing  "The 
Canary,"  "Fantasticks,"  "Beyond  Human  Power"  and  several 
other  plays.  Mrs.  Campbell  came  to  this  country  under  the 
management  of  Liebler  &  Co.  in  1901  and  played  a  six  months' 
engagement  in  repertoire.  The  following  year  she  made  another 
American  tour  under  Charles  Frohman,  appearing  in  "The  Joy 
of  Living,"  by  Sudermann,  and  "Aunt  Jeannie,"  by  E.  F.  Ben 
son,  among  other  plays.  In  1904  she  appeared  with  Sarah  Bern- 
hardt,  playing  "Pelleas  and  Melisande."  by  Maeterlinck,  in 
French.  The  same  year  she  made  another  American  tour  with 
an  English  translation  of  Sardou's  "La  Sorciere."  In  1905  she 
again  played  in  French  with  Madame  Bernhardt  in  London  and 
throughout  England.  The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  she  toured  this 
country  in  repertoire.  Mrs.  Campbell's  London  address  is  33 
Kensington  square,  W. 

CAREW,  James: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Indiana  in  1872.  He  came  into  promi 
nence  as  an  actor  in  "The  Climbers"  with  Miss  Amelia  Bing- 
ham.  He  afterward  scored  with  Miss  Henrietta  Crosman  in 
"Sweet  Kitty  Bellairs"  under  the  management  of  David  Belasco, 
and  with  Miss  Alice  Fischer  in  "Mrs.  Jack."  He  appeared  as 
Lieut.  Richard  Redstone  in  "Two  Little  Sailor  Boys"  at  the 
Academy  of  Music,  New  York,  May  2,  1904,  and  then  joined  Miss 
Maxine  Elliott's  company,  playing  Sam  Coast  in  "Her  Own 
Way,"  making  his  first  appearance  in  London,  England,  in  that 
part  at  the  Lyric  Theatre  April  25,  1905.  He  played  in  "An 
Angel  Unawares"  at  the  Court  Theatre  and  in  "Man  and  Super 
man"  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  London,  returning  to  the  Court 
Theatre  to  play  Capt.  Hamlin  Kearney  in  G.  Bernard  Shaw's 
"Captain  Brassbound's  Conversion"  to  the  Lady  Cecily  Wayn- 
flete  of  Miss  Ellen  Terry,  March  20,  1906.  One  year  and  two 
days  later,  on  March  22,  1907,  he  married  that  famous  English 
actress  at  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  having  returned  to  this  country  with 
her  company  the  previous  January,  playing  the  part  of  Captain 


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Brassbound.  He  was  also  seen  with  her  in  "The  Good  Hope" 
and  "Nance  Oldfield"  at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New  York,  Febru 
ary,  1907.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  appeared  in  London. 

CAREY,  Miss  Eleanor: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Chile,  South  America,  August  31,  1852. 
In  1874  she  came  to  California  and  made  her  first  appearance 
on  the  stage  in  San  Francisco  at  the  California  Theatre  with  a 
stock  company.  She  made  her  debut  in  New  York  on  January 
7,  187S,  playing  Queen  Elizabeth  in  "Richard  III"  with  Edwin 
Booth  at  Booth's  Theatre,  and  subsequently  appeared  with  him 
in  the  roles  of  Katherine  in  "The  Taming  of  the  Shrew,"  Desde- 
mona  in  "Othello,"  Portia  in  "The  Merchant  of  Venice,"  and  in 
other  Shakespearian  plays.  She  was  with  the  Union  Square 
Stock  Company  for  four  years,  supporting  Clara  Morris,  and 
then  toured  in  "The  Silver  King"  with  Frederick  De  Belleville. 
Miss  Carey  has  been  seen  in  "Tangled  Lives"  with  Robert  Man- 
tell,  "Niobe,"  "A  Parisian  Romance,"  and  "Fascination."  She 
has  also  been  associated  with  the  late  Richard  Mansfield  in  his 
repertoire,  with  Leslie  Carter  in  "Du  Barry,"  and  Robert  Ede- 
son  in  "Ranson's  Folly."  In  1906  she  appeared  with  Wright 
Lorimer  in  "The  Shepherd  King,"  and  the  season  of  1906-7  was 
with  Blanche  Walsh  in  both  "The  Woman  in  the  Case"  and  "The 
Kreutzer  Sonata."  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  leading  woman 
with  the  Belasco  Stock  Company,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

CARLE,  Richard : 

Comedian,  was  born  in  Somerville,  Mass.,  July  7,  1871.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  High  School  in  that  city.  He  had 
gained  a  reputation  as  a  platform  humorist  throughout  New 
England  before  he  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  regular 
stage,  supporting  James  T.  Powers  and  Peter  F.  Dailey  in  "A 
Straight  Tip."  His  next  engagement  was  with  Joe  Ott  in  "The 
Star  Gazer,"  after  which  he  played  in  "Excelsior,  Jr.,"  and 
then  made  his  first  marked  success  in  "The  Lady  Slavey."  He 
afterward  played  principal  comedy  parts  in  "One  Round  of  Pleas 
ure,"  "In  Gotham,"  "A  Dangerous  Maid,"  "Yankee  Doodle 
Dandy,"  "A  Greek  Slave"  and  his  own  musical  comedy, 
"Mam'selle  'Awkins."  As  a  legitimate  actor  Mr.  Carle  made  a 
pronounced  success  in  the  part  of  the  carpenter,  Shossi  Shman- 
drik  in  Israel  Zangwill's  "Children  of  the  Ghetto,"  produced  in 
Washington  on  September  18,  1899.  The  following  year  Mr. 
Carle  went  to  London  as  a  member  of  the  "An  American  Beauty" 
company.  The  play  was  a  failure,  but  when  the  company  pre 
sented  "The  Casino  Girl"  in  its  place  Mr.  Carle  jumped  into 


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popularity  with  the  Britishers.  Returning  to  this  country,  Mr. 
Carle  starred  in  his  own  musical  comedies,  "The  Mayor  of  To- 
kio"  and  "The  Tenderfoot."  The  season  of  1906-7  he  starred  in 
"The  Spring  Chicken,"  which  he  again  played  the  fall  of  1907. 
He  also  produced  his  musical  comedy,  "The  Hurdy  Gurdy  Girl." 
In  November,  1907,  he  appeared  in  "Mary's  Lamb,"  written  by 
himself.  Mr.  Carle's  New  York  home  is  at  127  Riverside  Drive. 

CARHART,  James  L. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  West  Bloomfield,  Mich.,  December  24, 
1843,  and  was  educated  at  the  schools  of  Pontiac  and  Detroit. 
When  eighteen  years  old  he  enlisted  in  the  Fifth  Michigan  Cav 
alry,  of  the  famous  Custer's  Brigade,  of  the  Army  of  the  Poto 
mac.  In  spite  of  his  youth  he  became  first  sergeant  of  his  com 
pany.  He  fought  in  more  than  forty  engagements,  including  the 
great  battles  of  Gettysburg,  Cold  Harbor,  Spottsylvania  and  the 
Wilderness.  He  was  in  Kilpatrick's  raid  on  Richmond  when 
Custer's  Brigade,  under  a  desperate  artillery  fire,  penetrated 
within  the  first  line  of  fortifications.  In  a  charge  against  Fitz- 
hugh  Lee's  cavalry  division  at  Trevillian  June  11,  1864,  Mr.  Car- 
hart's  horse  was  killed  and  he  was  taken  prisoner.  After  three 
weeks  in  Libby  Prison  and  nine  months  in  Andersonville  Prison 
he  was  paroled  in  March,  1865.  When  mustered  out  of  the  service 
he  went  on  the  stage,  making  his  first  appearance  as  Deschap- 
pelle's  servant  in  "The  Lady  of  Lyons,"  September  6,  1865,  at 
the  Athenaeum  Theatre,  Detroit.  That  season  he  played  over  one 
hundred  parts,  supporting  such  stars  as  James  H.  Hackett, 
Charles  Kean  and  Ellen  Tree,  Laura  Keene,  Lawrence  Barrett, 
Charles  Dillon,  Matilda  Heron,  etc.  The  next  season  he  was  at 
the  Pittsburg  Theatre.  In  1868-9  at  Wood's  Theatre,  Cincinnati, 
and  following  years  up  to  1875  in  stock  at  Louisville,  New  Or 
leans,  Washington,  Chicago  and  New  York;  his  first  New  York 
appearance  being  as  Horatio  to  the  Hamlet  of  E.  L.  Davenport 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House  in  1874.  Mr.  Carhart  has  supported 
nearly  all  of  the  great  stars  of  the  last  forty  years.  He  has 
played  more  than  eight  hundred  parts,  including  seventy-four 
Shakespearian  characters  in  nineteen  of  the  poet's  plays.  Other 
notable  parts  he  has  played  are  Michonet  in  "Adrienne  Lecou- 
vrier,"  Mons.  Belin  in  "Miss  Multon,"  and  Duval  in  "Camille" 
with  Clara  Morris,  Duke  of  Gloster  in  "Jane  Shore"  with  Gene- 
vieve  Ward,  Tulkinghorn  in  "Bleak  House"  with  Janauschek, 
Seth  Preene  in  "Lights  o'  London,"  Old  Grazebrook  in  "An  Un 
equal  Match,"  Baron  Hartfeldt  in  "Jim  the  Penman,"  and  Rich 
ard  Brinsley  Sheridan  in  "Beau  Brummell."  He  was  for  three 
seasons  with  the  late  Richard  Mansfield.  He  has  played  in 


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twenty-seven  theatres  on  Manhattan  Island  and  thirteen  in 
Brooklyn,  making  forty  in  Greater  New  York.  Altogether  he  has 
played  in  six  hundred  theatres  in  five  hundred  cities  and  towns 
in  every  State  of  the  Union,  and  in  British  America.  Mr.  Car- 
hart  also  plays  modern  up-to-date  characters  with  equal  facility 
as  the  classical.  He  was  last  seen  as  Mr.  Lawton  in  "The  Com 
ing  of  Mrs.  Patrick"  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre  in  the  fall 
of  1907.  In  1868  Mr.  Carhart  married  Miss  Cordelia  Cappell,  a 
well-known  leading  actress,  who  died  in  1882.  He  is  a  member 
of  The  Players  Club,  a  life  member  of  the  Actors'  Fund,  and  a 
comrade  of  Lafayette  Post  G.  A.  R.  His  hobby  is  the  collection 
of  old  theatrical  portraits  and  programmes,  of  which  he  pos 
sesses  a  large  and  valuable  number.  His  summer  home  is  at 
Pontiac,  Mich. 

CARLETON,  Henry  Guy: 

Playwright,  was  born  at  Fort  Union,  N.  M.,  June  21,  1851. 
His  father  was  the  late  General  James  H.  Carleton,  U.  S.  Army. 
After  being  graduated  from  Santa  Clara  College,  California, 
Henry  Guy  Carleton  entered  the  army,  but  soon  resigned  and 
took  up  newspaper  work  on  the  New  Orleans  Times  in  1876. 
There  he  won  his  spurs  in  the  yellow  fever  epidemic  of  1878. 
He  soon  afterward  went  to  New  York,  where  he  quickly  earned 
a  reputation  as  a  humorist.  His  first  dramatic  work  was  "Mem- 
non,"  an  Egyptian  tragedy,  which  was  purchased  by  the  late 
John  McCullough,  but  never  produced.  Other  plays  by  Mr. 
Carleton,  many  of  which  have  been  successful,  are  "Victor  Du- 
rand,"  "A  Gilded  Fool,"  played  by  Nat  Goodwin;  "The  Butter 
flies,"  "The  Lion's  Mouth,"  and  "Ye  Early  Trouble."  April  10, 
1890,  Mr.  Carleton  who  had  married  and  been  divorced,  mar 
ried  Miss  Effie  Shannon,  the  actress.  She  obtained  a  divorce 
from  him  three  years  later.  Mr.  Carleton  is  a  member  of  the 
New  York  Yacht  Club. 

CARR,  Alexander: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Russia  March  7,  1880,  being  the  son  of 
a  Rabbi.  He  emigrated  to  America  when  quite  young,  landing 
at  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  but  at  the  age  of  twelve  ran  away  to 
join  the  Kickapoo  Medicine  Company  as  lecturer,  touring  the 
West  with  it  for  one  year.  He  wandered  to  St.  Paul,  Minn., 
securing  a  position  as  property  man  at  the  St.  Paul  Theatre, 
rising  finally  to  ballad  singer  on  amateur  night,  Fridays.  Then 
he  joined  the  "Irish  Justice"  company,  playing  small  parts  and 
later  was  seen  in  "A  Load  of  Wood,"  and  "Bibs  and  Bibs."  He 
went  to  Chicago,  appearing  in  music  halls,  and  from  there 


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drifted  to  Nashville,  Tenn.,  appearing  twenty-four  times  a  day 
singing  popular  songs.  A  stroke  of  ill-luck  compelled  him  to 
sing  in  the  streets  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  to  pass  the  hat  to 
pedestrians.  He  did  the  same  thing  in  St.  Louis  for  a  year, 
and  then  secured  an  engagement  in  a  burlesque  show  in  Buf 
falo,  N.  Y.  He  subsequently  was  starred  in  "The  Parisian 
Belles,"  with  a  promise  of  a  good  salary.  He  received  merely 
the  promise.  Mr.  Carr,  somewhat  discouraged,  turned  his  at 
tention  to  drama,  appearing  in  "The  Stroke  of  Twelve,"  only  to 
return  to  Chicago  and  burlesque.  Weber  and  Fields  finally  en 
gaged  him  for  all  the  leading  parts  in  their  numerous  shows, 
and  after  appearing  with  the  "Grass  Widow"  and  "Transatlan 
tic"  burlesquers  he  joined  Hurtig  and  Seamans.  The  seasons 
of  1904-5-6-7  Mr.  Carr  starred  in  "Wine,  Woman  and  Song," 
making  his  first  marked  success.  The  season  of  1907-8  he 
formed  one  of  a  triple-star  cast  in  "The  Gay  White  Way,"  pro 
duced  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York,  October  7,  1907.  Mr. 
Carr  married  a  non-professional  woman  June  14,  1902.  His 
favorite  recreations  are  baseball  and  horse  racing.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Green  Room,  Comedy  and  White  Rats  clubs. 
His  New  York  City  address  is  Reisenweber's  Hotel.  His  sum 
mer  home  is  in  the  Catskill  Mountains. 

CARROLL,  Richard  Field: 

Actor  and  playwright,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  October 
27,  1865,  and  educated  at  New  York  College.  He  made  his  first 
appearance  with  Col.  W.  E.  Sinn's  Varieties  at  the  Front  Street 
Theatre,  Baltimore,  and  the  seasons  of  1881-2-3  he  played  Ned 
in  "Le  Voyage  en  Suisse"  with  the  Hanlon  Brothers.  The  sea 
son  of  1884-5  he  played  the  Dumb  Boy  in  "Prisoner  for  Life" 
with  the  Union  Square  Stock  Company,  New  York.  He  then 
went  starring  with  the  Carrolls  (his  father,  R.  M.,  and  his  broth 
ers  E.  M.  H.  and  Bennie)  in  "Whose  Can  It  Be?"  He  played  in 
Bartley  Campbell's  "White  Slave,"  and  was  the  Fritz  in  "Oxy 
gen"  with  Lydia  Thompson.  The  season  of  1886-7  he  was  lead 
ing  comedian  with  Patti  Rosa  in  "Zip"  and  "Bob,"  and  the  fol 
lowing  summer  was  at  the  Chicago  Opera  House  in  Henderson's 
"Arabian  Nights."  For  successive  seasons  from  1887  he  cre 
ated  the  comedy  part  in  Vernona  Jarbeau's  "Starlight,"  was  in 
Tony  Hart's  "Donnybrook,"  with  Bandmann  in  "Australitz,"  and 
played  Faragus  in  "Nadjy"  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York, 
At  the  same  theatre  he  played  in  "The  Brigands,"  and  "The 
Grand  Duchess,"  then  was  with  Marie  Tempest  in  "The  Red 
Hussar"  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  and  with  Pauline  Hall  in  "Er- 
minie"  and  "Amorita."  The  seasons  of  1891-2  Mr.  Carroll  was 


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leading  comedian  with  the  Duff  Opera  Company,  and  the  follow 
ing  season  he  played  in  "Our  Goblins,"  "The  Dago,"  written  by 
himself  and  "The  Talisman"  at  Hammerstein's  Manhattan  Opera 
House.  After  a  summer  with  Duff  in  repertoire,  in  1893-4  he 
played  Charles  Favart  with  Fay  Templeton,  was  with  Laura 
Schirmer  Mapleson  and  with  Marie  Tempest  in  "The  Fencing 
Master."  The  following  year  he  played  the  Mayor  of  Perth  in 
"Kob  Roy"  and  produced  "Kismet,"  by  himself  and  Gus  Kerker, 
at  the  Tremont  Theatre,  Boston.  The  two  following  seasons  he 
was  in  "Rob  Roy,"  and  "Brian  Boru,"  at  the  Broadway  Theatre, 
New  York.  He  then  played  McGinnis  Pasha  in  "The  Rounders" 
and  was  in  "The  Dangerous  Maid,"  and  "The  Three  Dragoons," 
at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York.  In  1899  he  was  with  his 
own  burlesque,  "Very  Little  Faust,"  at  the  Manhattan  Beach 
Theatre,  and  in  1900  in  "The  Normandy  Wedding"  at  the  Herald 
Square  Theatre,  New  York.  Then  for  successive  seasons  he 
played  the  title  role  in  "The  Burgomaster,"  was  with  "Miss  Bob 
White,"  the  "Sally  in  Our  Alley"  and  "Winsome  Winnie"  com 
panies.  He  succeeded  Andrew  Mack  in  "My  Lady  Molly"  at 
Daly's,  New  York,  and  played  principal  comedy  in  "The  Maid 
and  the  Mummy."  In  1905-6  he  starred  in  "The  Serio-Comic 
Girl,"  and  in  1906-7  played  Sir  John  in  "Belle  of  Mayfair."  Mr. 
Carroll  married  Miss  Ann  Sutherland  in  1886  and  was  divorced 
1893.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Actors'  Society  of  America  and 
F.  and  A.  M.,  Pacific  Lodge  233. 

CARSON,  Murray: 

Actor  and  playwright,  was  born  in  London  in  1865  of  Scot 
tish  parents.  As  a  youth  he  was  secretary  to  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Joseph  Parker,  of  the  City  Temple,  London,  but  finding  the  foot 
lights  more  attractive  than  the  pulpit  Mr.  Carson  while  still  in 
his  'teens,  obtained  an  engagement  with  the  late  Wilson  Barrett, 
with  whom  he  played  in  "Claudian,"  "The  Lord  Harry,"  "Hood- 
man  Blind,"  "The  Silver  King,"  "Hamlet"  and  other  plays.  Since 
coming  to  the  United  States  Mr.  Carson  has  written  many  works 
in  collaboration  with  Louis  N.  Parker  the  best  known  of  which 
is  "Rosemary."  In  August,  1906,  he  made  his  first  appearance 
in  vaudeville  at  Keith  &  Proctor's  Twenty-third  Street  Theatre, 
New  York,  in  a  one-act  play,  "The  Point  of  the  Sword."  The 
same  year  he  supported  Miss  Cecilia  Loftus  in  "The  Diamond 
Express."  He  is  a  member  of  the  Green  Room  Club. 

CARTER,  Mrs.  Leslie  (Mrs.  William  Louis  Payne) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  her  maiden  name  being 
Caroline  Louise  Dudley.  On  her  father's  death  the  family  re- 


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moved  to  Ohio,  where  Miss  Dudley,  still  in  her  'teens,  met  Les 
lie  Carter,  a  weaLhy  Chicago  lawyer,  to  whom  she  was  married 
at  Dayton  May  26,  1880.  On  May  22,  1889,  Mr.  Carter  obtained 
a  divorce.  Mrs.  Carter  then  decided  to  seek  a  stage  career.  It 
was  not  until  she  met  David  Belsaco  that  she  found  a  manager 
who  saw  in  her  the  possibilities  of  an  undeveloped  talent.  Un 
der  his  tutelage  she  studied  and  worked  untiringly  and  unceas 
ingly  until  November  10,  1890,  when  she  made  her  debut  in 
New  York  in  "The  Ugly  Duckling,"  by  Paul  Potter,  Mr.  Belasco 
giving  her  the  principal  part.  More  training  and  hard  work  on 
the  part  of  teacher  and  pupil  followed,  and  better  results  came 
with  the  production,  the  following  year,  of  "Miss  Helyett,"  a 
comedy  with  music,  by  Audran.  Mrs.  Carter  played  the  part  of 
a  demure  Quaker  maiden  in  this  for  two  years,  improving  con 
stantly,  and  all  the  time  being  under  Mr.  Belasco's  personal 
training.  In  March,  1893,  Mrs.  Carter  left  the  stage  and  dropped 
out  of  the  public  eye  until  1895.  These  two  years  had  been  spent 
in  further  study.  In  October  of  that  year  she  appeared  as  a  star 
in  "The  Heart  of  Maryland,"  written  especially  to  display  her 
talents  by  Mr.  Belasco.  In  this  she  achieved  the  success  she 
and  Mr.  Belasco  had  worked  so  long  and  hard  for.  She  played 
Maryland  Calvert  in  this  country  for  three  seasons,  until  April 
9,  1898,  when  Mr.  Belasco  took  the  play  to  the  Adelphi  Theatre, 
London.  There  Mrs.  Carter  appeared  as  Maryland  Calvert  one 
hundred  and  forty-five  times.  This  was  followed  by  an  even 
greater  success,  "Zaza,"  written  by  Mr.  Belasco  from  the  French 
play  by  Simon  and  Berton,  which  Rejane  produced  at  the  Vaude 
ville  Theatre,  Paris.  After  its  initial  production  in  Washington 
December  26,  1898,  Mrs.  Carter  was  hailed  by  some  critics  as 
the  American  Bernhardt.  In  April,  3900,  she  appeared  with 
great  success  in  "Zaza"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  London.  "Zaza" 
was  followed  by  "Madame  Du  Barry,"  written  by  Mr.  Belasco, 
which  was  produced  first  at  the  New  National  Theatre,  Wash 
ington,  D.  C.,  December  12,  1901,  and  opened  in  New  York  at 
the  Criterion  Theatre  on  December  25.  The  success  of  this  was 
even  more  phenomenal  than  that  of  "Zaza,"  Mrs.  Carter  show 
ing;  perhaps  even  more  talent  as  an  emotional  actress  than  she 
had  in  the  former  play.  From  that  time  until  1905  Mrs.  Carter 
alternated  in  playing  "Zaza"  and  "Madame  Du  Barry"  to  crowded1 
houses  all  over  the  country.  In  1905  she  appeared  in  "Adrea," 
by  Mr.  Belasco  and  John  Luther  Long,  at  the  Belasco  Theatre, 
New  York.  This  was  withdrawn  in  the  spring  of  1906.  Mrs. 
Carter  made  a  starring  arrangement  with  Charles  B.  Dillingham 
for  the  season  of  1906-7,  but  that  manager,  unable  to  secure  a 
suitable  play  for  her  use  she  went  out  under  her  own  manage- 


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ment  on  spring  tour  in  May,  1907.  Mrs.  Carter  continued  under 
her  own  management  the  season  of  1907-8,  appearing  in  reper 
toire,  her  season  opening  at  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  November  11, 
1907. 

CARTWRIGHT,  Charles: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England  in  1855  and,  after  touring  the 
provinces,  made  his  first  appearance  in  London  at  the  Imperial 
Theatre,  playing  Chadband  to  Miss  Jennie  Lee's  Jo.  In  1880' 
he  supported  the  late  William  Creswick  at  the  Princess's  Thea 
tre  and  appeared  with  the  late  Edwin  Booth  in  "Richelieu,"  and 
"The  Fool's  Revenge."  After  numerous  parts  in  London  he 
toured  England  as  Price  Zouroff  in  "Moths."  In  1886  he  was 
in  the  production  of  "A  Run  of  Luck"  at  Drury  Lane  Theatre, 
and  then  went  to  the  Princess's  for  a  long  round  of  leading  parts. 
He  played  Claudius  and  lago  with  F.  R.  Benson  at  the  Globe. 
He  then  went  to  Australia  and,  returning  to  London,  created 
many  parts  at  the  Adelphi  and  at  Drury  Lane.  He  was  also 
the  original  Sir  Hubert  Garlinge  in  "John  a  Dreams,"  produced 
at  the  Haymarket  in  1895.  For  a  season  he  was  joint  manager 
of  the  Duke  of  York's  Theatre,  London,  and  he  also  played 
Peggoty  in  a  revival  of  "David  Copperfield"  at  the  Adelphi.  He- 
made  his  first  great  success  in  this  country  as  Kleshna  in  the 
original  production  of  "Leah  Kleshna,"  and  the  season  of  1906-7 
he  starred  here  in  "The  Eastman  Case."  He  has  recently  staged 
many  English  plays  in  New  York. 

CARTON,  R.  Claude  (R.  C.  Critchett) : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  London  in  1854,  being  the  son 
of  Dr.  George  Critchett,  a  well-known  oculist  and  brother 
of  Sir  G.  Anderson  Critchett.  While  playing  Rosencrantz  to 
the  Hamlet  of  Miss  Marriott  in  Hull  in  1876  Mr.  Carton  met 
and  married  a  daughter  of  the  late  Henry  Compton  (Charles 
Mackenzie),  a  famous  comedian  and  the  founder  of  one  of  the 
best  known  families  of  English  actors.  Mr.  Carton  is  best  known 
in  America  as  the  author  of  "Lord  and  Lady  Algy,"  "Liberty 
Hall,"  and  more  recently  "Mr.  Hopkinson."  The  production  of 
"The  Great  Pink  Pearl"  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  London,  nearly 
twenty  years  ago,  was  Mr.  Carton's  debut  as  a  playwright.  The 
play  was  a  great  success,  and  since  then  Mr.  Carton  has  devoted 
himself  exclusively  to  the  dramatist's  art.  His  best  known 
plays,  in  addition  to  those  already  mentioned,  are  "Sunlight 
and  Shadow,"  "Robin  Goodfellow,"  "The  Tree  of  Knowledge," 
"The  Home  Secretary,"  "The  Squire  of  Dames,"  "The  White 
Elephant,"  "Wheels  Within  Wheels,"  "The  Treasure,"  "The- 


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Pointsman,"  "Lady  Huntworth's  Experiment,"  "The  Under 
graduate,"  "Public  Opinion,"  "The  Rich  Mrs.  Repton,"  "A  Clean 
Slate,"  and  "The  Undercurrent."  Mr.  Carton  lives  with  his  wife 
and  one  daughter  at  The  Red  Lodge,  Acton,  near  London.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Garrick  and  the  Savage  clubs,  London. 

CAKVIL,  Bert  Forrest: 

Actor,  was  born  at  St.  Mary's,  Nova  Scotia,  June  13,  1880, 
and  was  educated  in  Silver  City,  N.  M.,  where  he  made  his  first 
appearance  as  Procules  in  "Damon  and  Pythias"  in  1902.  He 
played  two  seasons  with  Gee's  stock  company,  taking  a  variety 
of  parts,  throughout  New  Mexico,  Arizona,  Texas  and  Colorado. 
The  season  of  1906  he  organized  his  own  company,  playing  leads 
and  being  supported  by  his  twin  brother,  Harry  Carvil.  He 
made  his  first  prominent  success  as  Norval  in  "Douglas."  His 
home  is  at  Globe,  Ariz. 

CARVIL,  Harry: 

Actor,  was  born  at  St.  Mary's,  Nova  Scotia,  June  13,  1880. 
He  made  his  first  appearance  as  Gustave  in  "Camille"  at  Silver 
City,  N.  M.,  in  1898.  After  general  work  with  the  Myrtle  Stock 
Company  he  joined  his  twin  brother,  Bert  Forrest  Carvil,  in 
the  Monarch  Stock  Company,  playing  standard  plays  through 
out  the  West.  His  home  is  at  Globe,  Ariz. 

CARUS,  Miss  Emma  (Mrs.  Harry  James  Everall) : 

Comedienne  and  singer,  was  born  in  Berlin,  Germany,  March 
18,  1879.  Her  father,  Carl  Carus,  was  a  manager,  and  her  mother, 
Henrietta  Rolland,  a  prima  donna  of  some  note.  Miss  Carus 
sang  in  public  when  she  was  six  years  old  and,  coming  to  this 
country  after  completing  her  musical  education,  adopted  the 
stage  as  a  profession  when  she  was  fifteen  years  old.  She  ap 
peared  in  various  minor  parts  in  light  opera  and  musical  com 
edy  until  1900,  when  she  played  her  first  important  part,  that 
of  Lady  Muriel  in  "The  Giddy  Throng,"  replacing  Lady  Frances 
Hope  (May  Yohe),  at  the  New  York  Theatre,  New  York.  She 
remained  a  member  of  the  New  York  Theatre  musical  stock 
company  for  three  years,  during  which  she  created  the  parts 
of  Nancy  in  "The  King's  Carnival,"  and  Jane  Bowlingbrook  in 
"The  Hall  of  Fame."  She  was  the  Mrs.  Jack  Orchard  of  "The 
Defender,"  produced  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York; 
the  Countess  von  Lahn  in  "The  Wild  Rose,"  the  Princess  Yo- 
San  in  the  burlesque  of  "The  Darling  of  the  Gods,"  produced 
at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York,  and  Mrs.  Jane  Habicomb 
in  "The  Medal  and  the  Maid"  at  the  Broadway.  The  season  of 


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1905-6  she  appeared  as  Lady  Peacock  in  "Woodland."  She  was 
in  "The  Follies  of  1907"  at  the  New  York  Theatre  roof  garden, 
and  the  season  of  1907-8  went  into  vaudeville.  She  was  married 
June  25,  1905,  to  Harry  James  Everall,  a  New  York  business 
man.  She  had  previously  been  married  to  N.  S.  Mattson,  sou 
of  a  former  governor  of  Minnesota,  whom  she  divorced.  Her 
address  is  at  200  West  Seventieth  street,  New  York. 

CAWTHORN,  Joseph: 

Comedian,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1868.  He  first  ap 
peared  on  the  stage  when  he  was  three  years  old  in  a  picka 
ninny  minstrel  entertainment  at  Robinson's  Hall,  New  York. 
In  1872  he  and  his  brother  Herbert  joined  Haverly's  minstrels 
and  toured  the  country  with  them  for  four  years,  Joseph  Caw- 
thorn  being  Haverly's  original  "Mastodon."  In  1876  he  went  to 
Europe,  and  for  the  next  four  years  appeared  there  in  the  music 
halls  and  pantomime  shows.  Returning  to  the  United  States  in 
1880,  he  played  in  vaudeville  until  1883,  when  he  made  a  joint 
starring  tour  with  his  brother  Herbert  in  "Little  Nugget."  He 
was  next  engaged  as  the  principal  comedian  of  Patti  Rosa's  com 
pany,  and  then  appeared  for  a  season  in  the  same  capacity  with 
the  Gladys  Wallis  company.  In  1895  he  reappeared  as  a  star  in 
"A  Fool  for  Luck,"  his  success  in  this  putting  him  in  the  front 
rank  of  light  comedians.  After  playing  the  leading  comedy 
parts  with  Corinne  and  in  "Excelsior  Jr."  with  Sadie  Martinet, 
he  played  a  leading  part  in  "Nature"  at  the  Academy  of  Music, 
New  York,  in  1897.  A  starring  tour  to  the  Pacific  Coast  in 
"Miss  Philadelphia"  was  followed  by  his  engagement  for  the 
role  of  Boris  with  Miss  Alice  Nielsen  in  "The  Fortune  Teller." 
In  1906  he  was  the  star  of  John  Philip  Sousa's  comic  opera, 
"The  Free  Lance,"  which  had  a  run  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Thea 
tre.  The  fall  of  1907  he  was  seen  in  "The  Hoyden"  with  Miss 
Elsie  Janis. 

CHAMBERXIN,  Miss  lone: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  November  15,  1880, 
and  was  educated  in  Washington,  D.  C.  She  is  the  granddaugh 
ter  of  Charles  R.  Thorne,  a  daughter  of  Emily  Jordan  Chamber- 
lin  and  a  niece  of  Charles  R.  Thorne,  Jr.  She  made  her  first 
appearance  at  Bridgeport  September  16,  1897,  in  "The  Girl  from 
Paris"  under  the  management  of  E.  E.  Rice.  She  then  joined 
Augustin  Daly's  company  and  remained  with  it  until  Mr.  Daly's 
death.  She  played  in  the  melodrama,  "Report  for  Duty,"  at  the 
Fourteenth  Street  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1899  and  in  "Danger 
ous  Women"  at  the  Star  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1900.  After  a 


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season  with  the  Wright  Huntington  Stock  Company  in  Provi 
dence,  R.  I.  she  became  a  member  of  the  Proctor  Stock,  New  York 
City.  She  has  also  fulfilled  engagements  with  Mrs.  Fiske  in 
"Mary  of  Magdala,"  with  Nellie  McHenry  in  "M'liss"  and  with 
Lottie  Williams  in  "Only  a  Shopgirl."  The  season  of  1905-6 
Miss  Chamberlin  was  leading  woman  with  Nance  O'Neil,  play 
ing  Marie  in  "Magda"  and  Gertrude  in  "The  Fires  of  St.  John." 

CHAMBERS,  C.  Haddon: 

Playwright,  was  born  at  Stanmore,  near  Sydney,  Australia, 
April  22,  1860,  being  the  son  of  John  Ritchie  Chambers.  Mr. 
Chambers  began  life  as  a  clerk  under  his  father  who  was  in 
the  Colonial  Civil  Service.  He  afterward  was  a  rider  on  an 
Australian  cattle  range.  Going  to  London  in  1880,  Mr.  Cham 
bers  began  a  literary  career.  His  first  important  play  was  "Cap 
tain  Swift,"  produced  by  Beerbohm  Tree  at  the  Haymarket, 
London,  in  1888.  His  other  notable  plays  are:  "The  Idler," 
"John  A  Dreams,"  "The  Tyranny  of  Tears,"  "The  Honorable  Her 
bert,"  "The  Old  Lady,"  "The  Awakening,"  and  "The  Golden  Si 
lence."  He  is  part  author  of  "The  Fatal  Card,"  "Boys  Together," 
and  "The  Days  of  the  Duke."  He  also  made  the  English  ver 
sion  of  "The  Thief." 

CHAMBERS,  Kellett: 

Playwright,  brother  of  Haddon  Chambers,  was  bern  in  Syd 
ney,  Australia.  He  studied  law  for  a  time,  but  deserted  it  for 
journalism.  In  1888  he  went  to  London,  where  his  brother  had 
already  won  fame  as  the  author  of  "Captain  Swift."  He  came 
to  this  country  in  1891  and  engaged  in  newspaper  work  in  New 
York  and  San  Francisco.  In  1901  he  married  Mrs.  Mary  Davi- 
son,  better  known  to  the  public  as  "Kate  Carew,"  caricaturist 
and  interviewer,  and  to  artists,  under  her  own  name,  as  a  por 
trait  painter.  Mr.  Chambers's  first  play,  "Abigail,"  was  pro 
duced  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1905,  Grace  George 
starring  in  it.  His  second,  "Frenzied  Finance,"  a  farce,  followed 
at  the  same  theatre.  In  1906  he  made  a  four-act  stage  version 
of  Charles  Dickens's  favorite  novel,  "David  Copperfield,"  which 
Charles  Cartwright  produced  in  England  under  the  title  "Dan'l 
Pegotty."  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  Joseph  Brooks  commis 
sioned  him  to  write  a  play  for  Miss  Lillian  Russell  to  meet  the 
emergency  created  by  the  failure  of  "Barbara's  Millions."  In 
four  weeks  from  the  signing  of  the  contract  Mr.  Chambers  de 
livered  "The  Butterfly,"  a  three-act  comedy  of  New  York  life, 
in  which  Miss  Russell  starred  the  entire  season.  Mr.  Chambers's 
address  is  American  Dramatists'  Club,  114  West  Fortieth  street, 
New  York. 


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CHASE,  Miss  Edna: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  September  29,  1888,  her 
parents  being  Warren  E.  and  Mary  Johnson  Chase.  She  made 
her  stage  debut  on  January  26,  1903,  at  Weber  &  Fields's  Music 
Hall,  New  York,  in  "Twirly  Whirly,"  beginning  in  the  chorus. 
She  continued  there  until  1905,  her  work  in  the  meantime  hav 
ing  advanced  her  to  one  of  the  smaller  roles,  when  she  went 
on  a  vaudeville  tour  in  John  Mason's  "Society  Belles"  with  Miss 
Lillian  Doherty.  In  1906  she  was  engaged  to  play  Dorothy  in 
"The  Tourists."  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  seen  in  "Fasci 
nating  Flora"  at  the  Casino,  New  York,  and  on  tour. 

CHASE,  Miss  Pauline: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Washington  May  20,  1885,  and  was  edu 
cated  at  the  Convent  of  the  Sisters  of  the  Holy  Cross  in  New 
York.  She  made  her  first  appearance  in  the  chorus  of  "The 
Rounders"  under  the  management  of  G.  W.  Lederer  in  1900,  and 
the  following  year  went  to  England  where  she  played  in  "The 
Girl  from  Up  There"  with  Miss  Edna  May.  She  was  next  seen 
in  this  country  in  "Liberty  Belles,"  attracting  attention  as  the 
Pink  Pajama  Girl.  Returning  to  England,  she  appeared  in  "The 
Schoolgirl"  at  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Theatre,  London,  in  1903, 
and  in  "Veronique"  at  the  Lyric,  1904.  She  was  then  seen  as  a 
dancer  in  "Peter  Pan,"  and  played  Columbine  in  "Pantaloon"  at 
the  Duke  of  York's  Theatre,  London.  After  playing  the  leading 
part  in  a  wordless  play  by  Albert  Chevalier  called  "The  Scape 
grace,"  she  was  entrusted  with  the  title  role  in  a  London  revival 
of  "Peter  Pan"  the  season  of  1906-7. 

CHEATHAM,  Miss  Kitty: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  being  the  daughter 
of  Colonel  Richard  Cheatham,  three  times  Mayor  of  Nashville 
and  a  granddaughter  of  General  Richard  Cheatham.  She  began 
her  stage  career  in  1887  by  playing  Daisy  Brown  in  "The  Pro 
fessor,"  and  the  same  year  was  engaged  by  Colonel  McCaull  to 
understudy  Miss  Bertha  Ricci,  the  prima  donna  of  his  opera 
company.  Before  the  season  was  over  Miss  Cheatham  had  suc 
ceeded  Miss  Ricci  and  sang  the  principal  parts  in  "Falka,"  and 
"The  Black  Hussar."  Miss  Cheatham's  first  appearance  in  New 
York  was  at  the  Casino,  where  she  appeared  as  Cerise  in  "Er- 
minie"  in  the  long  run  of  that  opera.  She  next  became  a  mem 
ber  of  Augustin  Daly's  company  and  went  to  the  front  in  that 
as  Bizarre  in  "The  Inconstant."  Among  her  other  roles  were 
Titania  in  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream,"  and  Jaquenetta  in 
"Love's  Labor's  Lost."  She  was  the  original  Winny  in  "The  Last 


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Word."  Miss  Cheatham  remained  many  years  with  the  Daly 
organization,  and  after  leaving  it  played  many  leading  parts. 
Of  late  she  has  devoted  herself  chiefly  to  public  readings  and 
charitable  performances 

CHEVALIER,  Albert: 

Actor,  was  born  in  London  March  21,  1861,  being  the  son  of 
a  French  father  and  a  Welsh  mother.  After  acting  as  an  ama 
teur  he  made  his  first  professional  appearance  at  the  Prince  of 
Waies's  Theatre  under  the  Bancrofts'  management  in  1877.  He 
then  became  a  member  of  the  Hare  and  Kendal  company,  and 
for  a  time  was  with  the  Van  Biene  Opera  Company.  In  1883 
he  was  at  Toole's  Theatre,  and  after  a  season  at  the  Globe  he 
went  to  the  Court  Theatre,  making  his  first  success  in  charac 
ter  parts  in  "The  Magistrate,"  and  "Dandy  Dick."  He  first  sang 
a  cockney  song,  "Our  'Armonic  Club,"  in  "Aladdin"  at  the 
Strand  Theatre  in  1889.  He  made  his  first  appearance  in  vaude 
ville  at  a  matinee  at  the  Tivoli,  London,  singing  coster  songs 
of  his  own  writing  in  1891  and  met  with  instant  and  extraordi 
nary  success.  Since  then  he  has  toured  the  world  singing  cos- 
termonger  songs  and  appearing  in  recitals  with  Mme.  Yvette 
Guilbert.  His  first  appearance  in  this  country  was  at  Koster 
and  Bial's  Music  Hall,  New  York,  in  1896.  He  last  appeared  in 
New  York  at  Carnegie  Hall  with  Mme.  Guilbert  in  1906.  He  re 
turned  to  the  legitimate  stage  in  1907,  playing  in  London.  He 
is  the  author  of  hundreds  of  coster  songs,  many  of  which  have 
attained  worldwide  popularity.  He  has  also  written  many  plays 
and  sketches  and  a  volume  of  personal  reminiscences.  His  home 
is  at  Ealing,  near  London,  England. 

CHEERY,  Charles: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England,  none  of  his  relatives  ever  hav 
ing  been  connected  with  the  stage.  He  began  business  as  a 
banker's  clerk  in  London,  after  having  graduated  from  Oxford 
University.  He  was  an  enthusiastic  amateur  actor,  and  after 
playing  several  leading  parts  he  determined  to  adopt  the  stage 
as  a  profession.  After  some  experience  in  England  he  came  to 
this  country  in  1899,  opening  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York, 
in  "A  Ray  of  Sunshine."  He  was  then  leading  man  with  Mary 
Mannering  for  a  season,  and  with  Henrietta  Crosman  in  "The 
Sword  of  the  King,"  and  Elsie  De  Wolfe  in  "Cynthia."  The  sea 
son  of  1903  he  began  an  engagement  as  leading  man  in  support 
of  Maxine  Elliott,  which  position  he  has  since  retained,  playing 
with  her  in  "Her  Own  Way"  and  "Her  Great  Match."  Mr. 
Cherry  has  also  played  in  London  with  Ethel  Barrymore  in 


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"Cynthia,"  with  Miss  Elliott  in  "Her  Own  Way,"  and  with  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Forbes  Robertson  in  "Mice  and  Men."  The  season  of 
1907-8  he  appeared  in  London  and  in  this  country  in  "Under  the 
Greenwood  Tree"  with  Miss  Elliott. 

CLARENDON,  J.  Hayden: 

Actor  and  newspaper  man,  was  born  in  Ballywalter,  County 
Cork,  Ireland,  July  10,  1879,  and  was  educated  at  Ratcliffe  Col 
lege,  Leicestershire,  England.  He  studied  law  in  Lincoln's  Inn, 
London,  and  afterward  studied  art  in  Paris  and  music  in  Dres 
den.  He  wrote  a  novel  of  Parisian  student  life,  called  "The  As 
pen  Leaf,"  which  was  so  severely  criticized  that  it  was  with 
drawn  from  circulation.  He  also  wrote,  in  collaboration  with 
the  late  Paul  Donval,  several  ballads  and  contributed  to  La  Vie 
Illustree  and  Ulntransigeant.  In  1899  he  returned  to  London 
where,  for  a  time,  he  edited  The  Topical  Times.  He  then  took 
a  stage  engagement  to  understudy  the  part  of  Bobby  Rivers  in 
"The  Gaiety  Girl."  He  next  played  Young  Marlowe  in  "She 
Stoops  to  Conquer,"  Guy  Stanley  in  "A  Runaway  Girl,"  Bronson 
in  "The  Belle  of  New  York,"  and  other  juvenile  comedy  roles. 
In  October,  1900,  he  came  to  this  country  and  joined  Henrietta 
Crosman's  "Mistress  Nell"  company.  In  1901-2  he  played  Percy 
Van  Stuyvesant  in  "The  Casino  Girl,"  Dolly  in  "Morocco  Bound," 
and  Captain  Donegal  in  "Florodora."  In  1903  he  joined  the 
reportorial  staff  of  the  New  York  Daily  News,  and  later  served 
on  the  staff  of  Munsey's  Magazine.  In  1905  he  returned  to  the 
stage,  playing  Lord  Shrimpton  in  "The  Prince  of  Pilsen,"  re 
maining  under  the  management  of  Henry  W.  Savage  until  1907. 
He  is  the  author  of  the  comic  operas  "The  Wrong  Room,"  in 
collaboration  with  Roy  L.  McCardell;  "The  Man  from  Cooks," 
and  the  composer  of  about  forty  published  songs.  He  is  also 
associated  with  The  Music  Trade  Review.  Mr.  Clarendon  is  a 
member  of  the  Pen,  Masonic  and  Stanford  Jack  clubs.  His  New 
York  address  is  16  West  One  Hundred  and  Fourth  street. 

CLARK,  Edwin  A. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  November  14,  1871, 
and  was  educated  at  Harvard  College.  He  made  his  first  appear 
ance  at  the  Theatre  Comique,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  with  the  Forest 
City  Quartette,  remaining  with  them  two  seasons.  He  then 
joined  the  Wilbur  Opera  Company  as  principal  baritone,  for  sev 
eral  seasons  playing  all  the  leading  roles  in  that  company's 
repertoire,  and  then  became  a  member  of  Henry  W.  Savage's 
grand  opera  company  for  two  seasons.  He  appeared  in  "The 


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Chinese  Honeymoon"  for  seventy-six  consecutive  weeks  and  was 
then  engaged  for  the  Tivoli  Opera  Company  in  San  Francisco 
for  one  season.  He  came  to  New  York,  supporting  Madame 
Schumann-Heink,  playing  Sergeant  Trivet  in  "Love's  Lottery," 
and  at  the  close  of  the  season  was  engaged  by  Edward  P.  Tem 
ple  as  leading  baritone  at  the  New  York  Hippodrome,  appearing 
as  Paul  Pasky  in  "A  Society  Circus"  December  11,  1905.  The 
season  of  1906-7  he  played  the  role  of  Pierre  Dubois  in  "Nep 
tune's  Daughter,"  and  on  November  27,  1907,  was  seen  as  Dick 
Spanker  in  "The  Auto  Race"  at  that  playhouse.  Mr.  Clark's 
summer  home  is  at  Delmar  Gardens,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

CLARK,  Miss  Marguerite: 

Comic  opera  soubrette,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  being  the 
daughter  of  A.  J.  Clark,  a  prominent  merchant  of  that  city. 
Her  parents  died  before  she  was  eleven  years  old  and  an  elder 
sister  took  charge  of  her,  placing  her  to  be  educated  in  the 
Brown  County  Convent,  Ohio,  where  she  remained  for  three 
years.  As  a  child  Miss  Clark  had  proved  herself  an  entertainer 
of  ability  in  amateur  theatricals  and  charitable  entertainments, 
and  when  she  left  the  convent  she  decided  on  a  stage  career. 
On  the  advice  of  J.  K.  Murray  and  his  wife,  Clara  Lane,  with 
whom  she  was  acquainted,  Miss  Clark  joined  the  chorus  of  the 
repertoire  company  with  which  they  were  playing  in  Baltimore, 
and  made  her  stage  debut  in  that  city  under  the  management 
of  Milton  Aborn.  In  a  short  time  she  was  graduated  from  the 
chorus  to  a  speaking  part.  After  remaining  with  this  company 
several  months  she  went  to  New  York,  and  there  accepted  a 
place  as  understudy  in  George  W.  Lederer's  "Belle  of  Bohemia" 
company,  meanwhile  continuing  vocal  study.  She  sang  the 
prima  donna  role  on  several  occasions,  and  did  it  so  well  that 
she  obtained  an  engagement  to  play  the  soubrette  role  in  "The 
Burgomaster."  Appearances  with  Dan  Daly  in  "The  New  York 
ers,"  and  in  "The  Wild  Rose"  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New 
York,  led  to  her  signing  with  De  Wolf  Hopper  and  playing  the 
role  of  Polly  in  "Mr.  Pickwick."  This  part  started  her  on  the 
road  to  popularity,  and  her  playing  of  Mataya  the  role  of  Delia 
Fox  in  the  original  company,  in  a  revival  of  "Wang,"  following 
an  engagement  with  the  "Babes  in  Toyland"  company,  estab 
lished  her  place.  She  made  the  greatest  success  of  her  career 
as  Sylvia,  with  De  Wolf  Hopper,  in  De  Koven  and  Rankin's 
comic  opera,  "Happyland,"  which  had  a  long  run  at  the  Lyric 
Theatre.  New  York,  the  season  of  1905-6  and  on  tour  the  season 
f  1906-7. 


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CLARKE,  Creston: 

Actor  and  playwright,  the  second  son  of  the  late  John 
Sleeper  Clarke  and  Asia  Booth  Clarke,  and  brother  of  Wilfred 
Clarke,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  August  30,  1865.  In  his  youth 
he  went  with  his  father  to  London,  and  there  and  in  Paris  re 
ceived  his  education.  He  made  his  first  professional  appearance 
at  the  Adelphi  Theatre,  London,  in  the  company  of  his  uncle, 
Edwin  Booth,  his  role  being  that  of  Francois  in  "Richelieu." 
From  1882  to  1886  he  played  in  London  and  the  provinces  in 
the  company  of  his  uncle  and  in  support  of  his  father.  He  be 
came  a  member  of  Lester  Wallack's  stock  company  in  1886  in 
New  York  and  when  it  went  out  of  existence  joined  Augustin 
Daly's  stock  company.  Mr.  Clarke  organized  his  own  company 
and  made  his  first  appearance  as  a  star  in  1887,  opening  with 
"Hamlet"  at  Richmond,  Va.,  in  which  town  his  grandfather, 
Junius  Brutus  Booth,  made  his  first  appearance  in  America.  For 
ten  years  Mr.  Clarke  toured  at  the  head  of  his  own  company, 
playing  "The  Merchant  of  Venice,"  "Richelieu,"  "The  Fool's  Re 
venge,"  etc.  In  1897  Mr.  Clarke  produced  his  own  romantic 
play,  "The  Last  of  His  Race."  The  season  of  1905-6  Mr.  Clarke 
starred  in  "Monsieur  Beaucaire."  The  season  of  1907-8  he  toured 
in  "The  Power  That  Governs."  Mr.  Clarke  married,  April  17, 
1895,  Adelaide  Prince,  an  actress  and  playwright.  He  is  a  mem 
ber  of  The  Players,  New  York. 

CLARKE,  George: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  January  28,  1840.  He 
died  October  3,  1906.  For  full  biography  of  the  late  Mr.  Clarke 
see  "Who's  Who  on  the  Stage,"  1906  edition. 

CLARKE,  Harry  Corson: 

Comedian,  was  born  in  New  York,  being  the  son  of  H.  G. 
Clarke  and  Mrs.  Adele  Clarke.  His  mother  played  with  Edwin 
Forrest,  Charlotte  Cushman,  E.  L.  Davenport  and  Edwin  Booth, 
and  his  grandfather  was  the  stage  manager  at  Barnum's  Mu 
seum  in  its  palmiest  days.  He  began  his  stage  career  in  his 
youth  by  playing  with  his  mother  and  acting  as  advance  agent 
for  various  companies,  but  made  his  real  debut  as  an  actor  in 
1884,  when  he  played  a  part  in  "The  Lights  o'  London."  He 
next  played  a  season  of  repertoire  with  Maud  Granger's  com 
pany  and  then  appeared  in  the  initial  production  of  "Beauty" 
at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York.  His  next  role  was  that  of  the 
Stage  Manager  in  "Mam'zelle."  For  several  years  thereafter  he 
played  in  various  stock  companies,  it  being  his  boast  that  he 
played  two  hundred  and  fifty  eccentric  roles  in  as  many  consecu- 


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tive  weeks.  He  has  been  most  successful  as  comedian  and  stage 
manager  of  the  stock  company  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  Denver, 
and  comedian  of  the  Columbia  Theatre  Stock  Company,  San 
Francisco.  With  the  latter  company  he  had  two  successful  sea 
sons  in  Honolulu.  In  1897  he  first  appeared  as  a  star  in  "What 
Happened  to  Jones."  This  lasted  for  three  seasons.  Then  he 
starred  in  "What  Did  Tomkins  Do?"  Seasons  in  stock  compa 
nies  followed  and  Mr.  Clarke  went  into  vaudeville  in  1906,  since 
which  he  has  been  seen  in  comedy  sketches. 

CLARKE,  William  Hutchinson: 

Actor  and  singer, was  born  in  Hamilton,  Canada,  September 
14,  1865,  and  was  educated  at  the  Gait  (Ontario)  Collegiate  In 
stitute  and  Victoria  College.  Before  entering  the  theatrical  pro 
fession  he  was  in  the  railroad  business.  He  made  his  first  stage 
appearance  in  the  opera  "H.  M.  S.  Pinafore"  at  Milwaukee,  Wis., 
in  1885,  under  the  management  of  Will  J.  Davis.  His  next  en 
gagement  was  with  John  Stetson  in  "Princess  Ida."  He  then, 
became  a  member  of  W.  J.  Carlton's  original  opera  company, 
and  afterward  succeeded  Myron  W.  Whitney  as  principal  basso 
of  the  Boston  Ideal  Opera  Company,  remaining  with  it  four 
years.  Engagements  followed  with  the  J.  C.  Duff  Opera  Com 
pany,  the  Hinrich  Grand  Opera  Company,  the  Minnie  Hauk 
Grand  Opera  Company,  the  Hess  Grand  Opera  Company,  the 
Henry  W.  Savage  Grand  Opera  Company  and  various  others,  in 
cluding  a  season  with  the  Shuberts'  company  playing  "The 
Chinese  Honeymoon."  Mr.  Clarke  has  sung  the  leading  basso- 
roles  in  forty-eight  grand  operas  and  one  hundred  and  four  light 
operas,  making  his  greatest  successes  as  Beppo  in  "Fra  Diavolo," 
Mephistopheles  in  "Faust,"  Marcel  in  "Huguenots,"  Cardinal 
Brogni  in  "La  Juive,"  and  Pooh-Bah  in  "The  Mikado.  The  sea 
son  of  1906-7  Mr.  Clarke  sang  the  part  of  Neptune  in  "Neptune's 
Daughter"  at  the  Hippodrome,  New  York,  and  the  season  of 
1907-8  he  played  Mr.  Worthington  in  "The  Auto  Race"  at  the 
same  place.  Mr.  Clarke  has  also  done  much  concert  work  with 
the  Boston  Festival  Orchestra,  Gilmore's  Band,  Sousa's  Band, 
and  has  sung  with  Mme.  Nordica,  Mme.  Melba  and  many  other 
celebrities.  Mr.  Clarke  married  Miss  Gertrude  Touissant,  Febru 
ary  7,  1887.  His  summer  home  is  at  Sea  View,  Mass.  His  per 
manent  address,  New  York  Hippodrome. 

CLAYTON,  Miss  Una  (Mrs.  Francis  Morey) : 

Actress,  commenced  her  career  as  an  amateur,  and  then  at 
the  head  of  her  own  company  toured  the  South  for  four  years 
in  musical  comedies.  She  was  then  soubrette  in  a  stock  com- 


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pany  in  New  Orleans.  Another  four  years'  tour  of  the  Northern 
towns  and  summer  seasons  with  stock  followed,  when  Miss 
Clayton  went  into  vaudeville  with  a  sketch  called  "What's  in  a 
Name?"  which  she  has  played  continuously  for  the  last  two 
seasons.  Miss  Clayton  is  the  author  of  four  one-act  comedies 
played  in  vaudeville  houses,  and  has  also  written  a  number  of 
successful  songs.  Miss  Clayton  is  the  wife  of  Francis  Morey, 
who  has  been  her  leading  man  and  manager  since  his  first  ap 
pearance  before  the  public.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Professional 
Woman's  League,  and  the  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star.  Her  New 
York  address  is  1931  Madison  avenue. 

CIIFFE,  H.  Cooper  (H.  Clifford  Cooper) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  England  July  19,  1862,  and  made  his 
first  appearance  on  the  stage  with  a  D'Oyly  Carte  company  in 
1879  in  the  English  provinces.  He  made  his  London  debut  in 
1881  in  "Claude  Duval,"  playing  the  part  of  Podge,  at  the  Olym 
pic  Theatre.  He  was  connected  with  Wilson  Barrett  for  eight 
years,  playing  such  roles  as  Captain  Skinner  in  "The  Silver 
King,"  Laertes  in  "The  Lady  of  Lyons,"  and  Grainger  in  "The 
Good  Old  Times."  In  1886  he  came  to  this  country  with  that 
actor  and  made  his  first  metropolitan  appearance  in  "Claudian" 
at.  the  old  Star  Theatre  in  Union  square.  Three  years  later  he 
again  came  to  the  United  States,  then  returned  to  London  to 
open  the  New  Olympic  Theatre  in  "The  People's  Idol"  in  1890, 
and  in  1902  made  his  third  visit  to  America.  He  came  here 
again  with  the  Kendals  in  1894  and  subsequently  was  seen  as 
Captain  Temple  in  "Burmah"  at  the  American  Theatre,  New 
York,  and  as  Dudley  Kepple  in  "One  of  the  Best."  He  then 
joined  Henry  Irving's  company,  appearing  in  repertoire.  In  1904 
he  supported  E.  S.  Willard  on  tour  in  America,  and  the  season 
of  190G-7  was  seen  as  the  Earl  of  Kerhill  in  "The  Squaw  Man" 
with  William  Faversham.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  engaged 
as  support  for  Robert  Mantell. 

COGHLAN,  Miss  Gertrude  Evelyn  (Mrs.  Augustus  Pitou,  Jr.) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  England  February  1,  1876,  being  the 
daughter  of  the  late  Charles  Coghlan,  the  well-known  actor,  and 
niece  of  Miss  Rose  Coghlan.  She  was  a  student  at  the  Art  School 
of  South  Kensington,  London,  where  she  became  proficient  in 
black  and  white  drawing  and  in  water-color  painting.  Coming 
to  this  country  with  her  father,  Miss  Coghlan  made  her  first  ap 
pearance  on  any  stage  as  Mion  in  "Diplomacy"  at  Detroit  Janu 
ary  16,  1893,  when  she  was  seventeen  years  old.  She  played 


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Juliet  in  her  fa.her's  play,  "The  Royal  Box,"  the  season  of 
1897-8  and  three  years  later  starred  in  the  same  play  and  in  her 
father's  version  of  "Becky  Sharp."  The  season  of  1904-5  she 
supponed  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell,  and  then  was  seen  in  "Once 
Upon  a  Time,"  "The  Sporting  Duchess,''  and  "One  of  Our  Girls." 
The  seasons  of  1905-6-7-8  Miss  Coghlan  played  Shirley  Rossmore 
with  the  Western  "Lion  and  the  Mouse"  company.  She  was  mar 
ried  to  Augustus  Pitou,  Jr.,  a  son  of  the  well-known  New  York 
theatrical  manager,  on  July  1,  1906. 

COGHLAN,  Miss  Rose  (Mrs.  John  T.  Sullivan) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Peterborough,  England,  March  18,  1853. 
Her  father  was  Francis  Coghlan,  publisher  of  Coghlan's  Conti 
nental  Guides  and  a  friend  of  Charles  Dickens.  Her  brother 
was  the  late  Charles  Coghlan,  the  well-known  actor.  Her  sister- 
in-law,  when  Rose  was  little  more  than  a  child,  put  her  on  the 
stage,  her  first  appearance  being  as  one  of  the  witches  in  "Mac 
beth"  in  Greenwicn,  Scotland.  Soon  afterward  she  won  favor 
as  Tilly  Price  in  a  stage  version  of  "Nicholas  Nickleby"  at  the 
Court  Theatre  on  her  first  appearance  in  London.  After  she  had 
played  engagements  with  Adelaide  Neilson  and  J.  L.  Toole,  E.  A. 
Sothern  brought  her  to  this  country  in  1871,  and  she  made  her 
first  appearance  in  a  dramatization  of  "The  Woman  in  White/' 
by  Wilkie  Collins.  She  then  played  a  season  with  the  Lydia 
Thompson  English  Burlesquers  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York. 
In  1873  she  returned  to  England  to  support  the  late  Charles 
Mathews.  After  a  season  with  John  Hare  Miss  Coghlan  sup 
ported  Barry  Sullivan,  the  tragedian,  in  Shakespearian  parts, 
one  of  her  principal  roles  being  that  of  Viola  in  "Twelfth  Night." 
She  was  in  the  original  cast  of  "East  Lynne"  at  the  St.  James's 
Theatre,  and  created  the  part  of  Lady  Manden  in  "All  for  Her." 
In  1877  Miss  Coghlan  returned  to  this  country  to  be  leading 
woman  of  Lester  Wallack's  Theatre.  Her  first  role  was  Clarissa 
Harlowe.  Her  greatest  success  during  the  nine  years  she  re 
mained  with  Wallack  was  as  Stephanie  in  Herman  Merrivale's 
"Forget-Me-Not."  She  also  achieved  distinction  in  "A  Scrap  of 
Paper,"  "The  World,"  "The  Silver  King,"  and  "Moths."  The  last 
performance  of  the  famous  stock  company  at  Wallack's  was  on 
May  5,  1888,  when  Miss  Coghlan  played  Lady  Teazle  in  "The 
School  for  Scandal."  She  was  also  the  Player  Queen  in  the  star 
cast  which  appeared  in  "Hamlet"  May  21,  1887,  to  mark  Lester 
Wallack's  retirement  from  the  stage.  Returning  to  England  in 
1892,  Miss  Coghlan  played  the  Countess  Zicka  in  a  revival  of 
"Diplomacy,"  and  two  years  later  was  seen  in  this  country  in 
Oscar  Wilde's  "A  Woman  of  No  Importance."  In  1895  Miss 


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Coghlan  starred  in  "Diplomacy,"  and  "Forget-Me-Not,"  her  hus 
band,  John  T.  Sullivan,  being  her  leading  man.  She  obtained  a 
divorce  from  him  a  few  years  ago.  Later  she  was  seen  in 
"Ulysses"  with  Tyrone  Power.  The  last  two  seasons  Miss 
Coghlan  starred  in  sketches  in  the  vaudeville  houses.  In  July, 
1902,  Miss  Coghlan  became  a  naturalized  American  citizen,  and 
engaged  in  stock  raising  on  her  ranch  in  Montana. 

COHAN,  George  M. : 

Actor,  manager,  and  playwright,  was  born  in  Providence, 
R.  I.,  July  4,  1878,  where,  ten  years  later,  he  made  his  profes 
sional  debut  in  a  play  written  by  his  father,  Jerry  Cohan,  and 
of  which  his  mother,  Helen  Cohan,  was  the  business  manager 
and  treasurer.  A  little  later  in  the  same  season  he  began  his 
musical  career  as  a  boy  violin  soloist  in  Haverstraw,  N.  Y.  For 
two  seasons  following  he  toured  the  country  with  his  father, 
mother,  and  sister  in  a  play  written  by  his  father,  called  "The 
Two  Barneys."  The  season  of  1890  found  George  playing  the 
Boy  in  "Peck's  Bad  Boy,"  after  which  the  family  entered  the 
vaudeville  field  and  became  famous  as  "The  Four  Cohans."  From 
this  time  on,  Mr.  Cohan's  fame  was  assured.  He  turned  out 
vaudeville  sketches  and  songs  with  such  rapidity  that  his  ver 
satility  and  untiring  efforts  caused  amazement.  His  first  real 
big  effort  as  a  play  writer  was  "The  Governor's  Son,"  which  for 
two  seasons  proved  one  of  the  most  popular  musical  attractions 
in  America.  Mr.  Cohan  followed  this  success  with  another, 
"Running  for  Office."  It  was  during  the  last  season  of  this 
play  that  Mr.  Cohan  decided  to  become  an  independent  star. 
For  this  tour  he  wrote  "Little  Johnny  Jones"  and  became  known 
as  "The  Yankee  Doodle  Comedian."  He  then  wrote  and  pro 
duced  "Forty-five  Minutes  from  Broadway,"  which  attained  such 
immense  popularity  that  two  companies  were  sent  on  tour.  This 
success  was  followed  that  same  season  by  "George  Washington, 
Jr.,"  in  which  Mr.  Cohan  starred  for  a  season  and  a  half.  Dur 
ing  this  time,  while  playing  every  night  and  two  matinees  a 
week,  Mr.  Cohan  rewrote  "The  Governor's  Son,"  which  he  pre 
sented  on  the  Amsterdam  roof  in  New  York  during  the  summer 
of  1906.  For  this  production  he  composed  new  songs.  Last  year 
he  busied  himself  on  another  manuscript,  with  the  result  that 
"Fifty  Miles  from  Boston"  was  cradled  at  Springfield,  Mass., 
March  28.  As  soon  as  "Fifty  Miles  from  Boston"  was  fairly 
launched,  Mr.  Cohan  immediately  started  work  on  a  summer  en 
tertainment  for  the  Amsterdam  Theatre  roof,  which  resulted  in 
"The  Honeymooners,"  a  three-act  musical  farce,  which  was  first 
presented  at  Atlantic  City  May  29,  and  enjoyed  an  all-summer 


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run  in  New  York.  During  this  engagement,  in  his  spare  mo 
ments  Mr.  Cohan  finished  "The  Talk  of  New  York,"  a  new  play 
for  Victor  Moore.  Having  been  divorced  from  Ethel  Levey,  his 
former  wife,  Mr.  Cohan  married  Agnes  Nolan,  of  Brookline, 
Mass.,  formerly  a  member  of  his  company,  June  29,  1907. 

COLLIEK,  William : 

Actor,  was  born  in  1868.  When  he  was  ten  years  old  he 
ran  away  from  school  to  join  a  juvenile  "Pinafore"  company, 
from  which  he  received  a  salary  of  three  dollars  and  fifty  cents 
a  week,  with  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents  extra  for  handling  bag 
gage.  In  the  company  he  was  understudy  for  Arthur  Dunn,  who 
played  Dick  Deadeye,  but  before  the  season  closed  Collier  had 
gone  on  for  nearly  every  part  in  the  opera,  including  Josephine 
and  Little  Buttercup.  Although  his  parents  were  players,  they 
forced  the  boy  to  go  to  school  until  1882,  when  he  got  a  place 
as  call  boy  at  Augustin  Daly's  Theatre.  During  the  six  years  he 
stayed  there  he  played  several  small  parts,  among  them  being 
the  Page  in  "Taming  of  the  Shrew,"  Starveling  in  "A  Midsum 
mer  Night's  Dream,"  and  Simple  in  "The  Merry  Wives  of  Wind 
sor."  Jn  the  character  of  a  dude,  and  without  a  line  to  speak, 
in  "Samson  and  Goliath,"  Mr.  Collier  appeared  to  such  advan 
tage  that  he  was  engaged  by  John  Russell,  manager  of  "The  City 
Directory"  company,  and  opened  in  the  parts  of  the  Elevator 
Boy  and  the  Stage  Manager.  In  the  latter  he  had  only  six  lines 
to  speak,  but  he  developed  the  character  until  it  became  the 
principal  one  in  the  piece.  He  could  not  do  a  step  of  dancing, 
but,  finding  it  necessary,  practised  until  he  became  one  of  the 
most  original  dancers  on  the  stage.  Mr.  Collier  for  years  played 
eccentric  comedy  parts  in  the  Hoyt  farces,  and  it  was  not  until 
1901  that  he  became  a  star.  His  work  in  "The  Man  from  Mex 
ico"  and  in  "Mr.  Smooth"  led  to  his  appearance  as  such  in  that 
year  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  February  11,  in 
"On  the  Quiet,"  by  Augustus  Thomas.  Mr.  Collier  played  this 
comedy  for  two  seasons,  and  then  joined  the  forces  of  Weber 
&  Fields  at  their  New  York  music  hall.  Subsequently  he  took 
"On  the  Quiet"  to  London,  where  he  was  successful.  Returning 
to  this  country,  Mr.  Collier  was  starred  in  several  comedies 
which  failed.  In  the  spring  of  1906  he  sailed  with  his  own  com 
pany  for  Australia,  after  an  exciting  experience  in  San  Fran 
cisco  during  the  earthquake  and  fire.  The  season  of  1907-8  Mr. 
Collier  starred  in  his  own  comedy,  "Caught  in  the  Rain."  Some 
years  ago  Mr.  Collier  married  Louise  AUen,  a  comedy  actress, 
who  appeared  with  him  in  many  of  his  successes. 


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COMSTOCK,  Miss  Nanette  (Mrs.  Frank  Burbeck) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  and  was  educated  at 
the  public  schools  there,  making  her  first  stage  appearance  on 
September  12,  1887,  at  the  Fourteenth  Street  Theatre,  New 
York,  as  the  Telegraph  Operator  in  Hoyt's  "A  Hole  in  the 
Ground."  After  playing  Kate  in  "Kerry"'  at  the  Madison  Square 
Theatre,  New  York,  she  entered  a  school  of  acting,  but  at  the 
end  of  three  months  appeared  with  Nat  C.  Goodwin  as  Una 
Foxwood  in  "A  Gold  Mine"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre  March 
4,  1889.  In  August  of  that  year  she  was  seen  in  "Beetle's  Baby" 
with  Kate  Claxton  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  and  the  fol 
lowing  month  in  "Shenandoah"  at  the  old  Star  Theatre,  playing 
Madeleine  West.  In  1891  she  supported  W.  J.  Scanlon  in  "Ma- 
vourneen,"  and  in  October  of  the  following  year  appeared  at  the 
Standard  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Valentine  in  "The  Family  Cir 
cle."  She  was  seen  at  the  same  playhouse  in  "No.  3A,"  and  in 
the  original  production  of  "Charley's  Aunt"  in  1893.  She  visited 
London  in  1895,  making  her  debut  there  in  "The  Girl  I  Left 
Behind  Me,"  succeeding  Marie  Montrose  in  the  leading  role  at 
the  Adelphi  Theatre.  Following  this  engagement  she  returned 
to  America  and  was  seen  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York,  in 
"Heart's  Ease"  January  11,  1897.  She  made  another  short  visit 
to  London,  and  upon  her  return  to  New  York  in  May,  1898,  ap 
peared  again  in  "Shenandoah."  The  season  of  1899-1900  Miss 
Comstock  toured  with  Otis  Skinner  in  "The  Liars,"  that  of 
1900-1  co-starred  with  Howard  Kyle  in  "Lovers'  Lane"  and  "Na 
than  Hale,"  and  appeared  with  John  Mason  in  "The  Altar  of 
Friendship"  the  season  of  1901-2.  Subsequently  she  was  seen 
with  William  Collier  in  "The  Diplomat,"  with  Dustin  Farnum 
in  "The  Virginian,"  again  with  Mr.  Collier  in  "Personal"  and 
"The  Dictator,"  and  then  starred  in  "The  Crisis"  the  season  of 
1904-5.  On  January  22,  1906,  she  appeared  as  Grace  Whitney 
in  "The  Galloper"  with  Raymond  Hitchcock  at  the  Garden  Thea 
tre,  New  York.  She  was  the  Shirley  Rossmore  in  the  London 
production  of  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse,"  and  the  seasons  of 
1906-7-8  was  with  William  Collier  in  "Caught  in  the  Rain." 

CONNOLLY,  Miss  Sadie: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  and  made  her  first 
appearance  there  in  vaudeville  in  1875.  The  same  year  at  the 
eld  Bowery  Theatre,  under  the  management  of  George  L.  Fox, 
she  played  a  small  part  in  "Pocahontas."  She  then  joined  Fore- 
paugh's  circus  and  remained  with  that  organization  sixteen 
years,  during  which  she  was  known  as  the  champion  chariot 
driver.  Then,  after  a  season  with  the  Cincinnati  Hippodrome, 


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she  adopted  the  legitimate  stage,  and  for  six  consecutive  sea 
sons  she  played  Mrs.  Laflin  in  "Yon  Yonson"  with  Gus  Heege, 
under  the  management  of  Jacob  Litt.  Then  for  three  seasons 
she  played  Mrs.  Crowley  in  "Quincy  Adams  Sawyer,"  the  first 
engagement  in  New  York  with  that  piece  opening  at  the  Acad 
emy  ef  Music  in  1902.  Since  that  time  Miss  Connolly  has  been 
playing  in  "The  Shadows  of  a  Great  City." 

CONQUEST,  Miss  Ida: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston  in  1870,  and  made  her  first 
appearance  in  a  small  part  in  "The  Harvest"  at  the  Fifth  Ave 
nue  Theatre,  New  York,  January  28,  1893.  The  following  year 
she  played  Constance  in  "The  Transgressor,"  and  Nanine  in 
"Camille"  with  Miss  Olga  Nethersole  at  Palmer's  Theatre,  New 
York.  She  then  joined  the  Empire  Theatre  company,  making 
her  first  appearance  as  Clarice  in  "The  Masqueraders"  Decem 
ber  3,  1894.  At  the  same  theatre  she  also  played  Rose  Gibhard 
in  "Michael  and  His  Lost  Angel,"  Musette  in  "Bohemia,"  and 
leading  parts  in  "Under  the  Red  Robe,"  "A  Man  and  His  Wife," 
"The  Conquerors,"  "The  Tyranny  of  Tears,"  and  "Richard  Car 
vel."  She  also  played  in  "The  Sins  of  the  Fathers"  at  the  Gar- 
rick  Theatre,  New  York,  in  the  spring  of  1897.  The  following 
season  she  played  in  London,  England,  in  "Too  Much  Johnson." 
After  a  season  in  "Because  She  Loved  Him  So"  she  returned  to 
the  Empire  Theatre,  New  York,  as  leading  woman  to  John 
Drew,  appearing  as  Muriel  Mannering  in  "The  Second  in  Com 
mand."  In  1903  Miss  Conquest  played  Helena  in  "A  Midsum 
mer  Night's  Dream"  with  Nat  Goodwin  at  the  New  Amsterdam 
Theatre,  New  York,  and  the  following  year  she  was  with  Richard 
Mansfield  in  "Ivan  the  Terrible,"  "Beau  Brummel,"  "A  Parisian 
Romance,"  "Old  Heidelberg,"  "Beaucaire"  and  other  plays  of  his 
repertoire.  She  played  Grace  Harkaway  in  a  revival  of  "Lon 
don  Assurance"  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New  York,  in 
1905,  and  the  fall  of  the  same  year  she  was  with  William  Collier 
in  "On  the  Quiet."  The  spring  of  1906  Miss  Conquest  played 
Anne  Whitfield  in  "Man  and  Superman"  at  the  Hudson  Theatre, 
New  York,  and  the  following  September  was  in  "The  Judge  and 
the  Jury"  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York.  On  November  5,  the 
same  year,  she  appeared  with  Kyrle  Bellew  in  "Brigadier  Ge 
rard,"  which  ran  through  the  season,  and  on  September  16,  1907, 
was  seen  in  "The  Spell"  with  David  Kessler. 

CONBIED,  Heinrich: 

Manager  and  Metropolitan  Opera  House  director,  was  born 
at  Bielitz,  Silesia,  Austria,  on  September  13,  1855,  being  the  son 


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of  Joseph  and  Gretchen  Conried.  His  father  was  the  proprietor 
of  a  large  yarn  factory.  He  made  his  debut  at  the  Burg  Thea 
tre,  Vienna,  on  February  23,  1873.  He  remained  there  for  over 
two  years,  and  then  went  to  the  National  Theatre  in  Berlin, 
When  Dr.  Foerster  became  chief  stage  manager  of  the  Leipzig 
Stadt  Theatre  he  engaged  Mr.  Conried  to  play  leading  roles.  He 
was  not  twenty-one  when  he  became  manager  of  the  Stadt  Thea 
tre  at  Bremen.  His  success  there  was  so  marked  that  it  at 
tracted  the  attention  of  Adolph  Neuendorff,  then  manager  of  the 
Germania  Theatre,  New  York,  and  he  engaged  Mr.  Conried  as 
chief  stage  manager.  Thus  it  was  in  1878  that  Mr.  Conried  first 
faced  an  American  audience.  In  1881  he  was  engaged  as  stage 
director  of  the  Thalia  Theatre,  and  soon  afterward  he  under 
took  its  management  with  Karl  Hermann.  In  1882  he  became 
artistic  manager  of  the  Casino,  New  York,  "Nanon,"  "Amorita," 
"The  Gypsy  Baron,"  "Poor  Jonathan,"  and  "Apollo"  being  pro 
duced  there  under  his  direction.  In  1893  he  took  the  manage 
ment  of  the  Irving  Place  Theatre  (then  known  as  Amberg's 
Theatre).  Up  to  February  23,  1898,  when  he  celebrated  the 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  his  entrance  on  the  stage,  he  had 
presented  two  hundred  and  seventy  plays  at  the  Irving  Place 
Theatre.  In  1904,  when  Maurice  Grau  retired  as  director  of  the 
Metropolitan  Opera  House,  Mr.  Conried  was  chosen  by  the  stock 
holders  to  become  his  successor.  Mr.  Conried  married  in  New 
York,  in  1888,  Augusta  Sperling.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Obercalschule,  Vienna,  and  has  received  the  degree  of  A.M.  from 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  He  has  been  decorated  with 
the  Order  of  the  Crown  by  Germany,  the  Crown  of  Knighthood 
of  the  Franz  Josef  Order  by  Austria,  the  Order  of  Art  and  Sci 
ence  by  Italy  and  Belgium,  and  the  Order  of  the  Crown  by  the 
King  of  Italy.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Germanic  Lan 
guages  and  Literature  of  Harvard  University  and  Vassar  Col 
lege.  He  lives  at  65  West  Seventy-first  street,  New  York,  and 
has  a  summer  home  at  Asbury  Park,  N.  J. 

CORBETT,  James  J. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  San  Francisco  in  September,  1866.  His 
father,  Patrick  Corbett,  came  from  Ireland  in  1854  and  settled 
in  New  Orleans.  He  married  in  1858  and  went  to  San  Francisco. 
James  J.  Corbett  was  graduated  at  the  age  of  sixteen  from  the 
Sacred  Heart  College  in  San  Francisco  and  obtained  a  place  as 
a  clerk  in  the  Nevada  Bank,  where  he  remained  until,  as  a 
member  of  the  Olympic  Athletic  Club,  he  developed  remarkable 
skill  as  a  boxer.  Becoming  a  professional  pugilist,  he  attained 
extraordinary  popularity  and  became  the  champion  heavyweight 


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of  the  world  by  knocking  out  John  L.  Sullivan  in  New  Orleans 
September  7,  1892.  After  playing  in  vaudeville  sketches  and 
athletic  parts  in  various  plays,  he  made  his  first  appearance  on 
the  stage  as  a  star  in  a  play  written  for  him  and  called  "Gentle 
man  Jack"  in  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  October  2,  1892.  Since  then  he 
has  appeared  chiefly  in  sketches  at  vaudeville  houses.  In  the 
fall  of  1905  Mr.  Corbett  appeared  in  "Cashel  Byron's  Profes 
sion,"  by  George  Bernard  Shaw,  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York, 
but  the  play  was  a  failure.  The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  Mr.  Corbett 
starred  in  "The  Burglar  and  the  Lady." 

"COBINNE"  (Corinne  Belle  De  Briou) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  Orleans,  La.,  on  Christmas  Day, 
1S73,  her  father  being  Henri  De  Briou.  Her  parents  were  in  no 
way  connected  with  the  stage.  Corinne  made  her  first  appear 
ance  at  the  Boston  Museum,  Boston,  Mass.,  May  12,  1878,  play 
ing  Buttercup  in  "Pinafore,"  under  the  management  of  Murphy 
and  MacDonald.  When  she  was  six  years  old  she  was  starred 
in  the  part  of  Cinderella,  and  when  seven  years  old  played  the 
title  role  in  "Olivette."  From  that  time  until  she  was  thirteen 
years  old  she  starred  in  comic  opera,  playing  the  prima  donnau 
roles  in  many  standard  operas,  including  "The  Mascotte,"  "Mi 
kado,"  "Chimes  of  Normandy"  (Serpolette),  "Girofle-Girofla." 
and  "Princess  of  Trebizonde"  (Prince  Raphael).  After  that  she 
starred  in  the  musical  comedies  "Bijou,"  "Ritz,"  and  "Capers." 
She  then  played  Carmen  in  Bizet's  opera,  and  the  star  parts  in 
"Boccaccio,"  "La  Perichole,"  "The  Little  Trooper,"  "The  Ameri 
can  Beauty,"  "Monte  Cristo,"  "Arcadia,"  "Carmen  Up  to  Date." 
She  played  Selim  in  "Blue  Beard,"  and  Dolores  in  "Florodora." 
She  made  her  first  marked  success  as  an  adult  in  "The  China 
Doll,"  under  the  management  of  Alfred  E.  Aarons.  Recently  she 
fulfilled  a  three  years'  engagement  with  Klaw  and  Erlanger,  ap 
pearing  as  Colin  in  "Mother  Goose"  and  as  Alice  O'Grady,  the 
leading  role,  with  the  "Rogers  Brothers  in  Ireland."  In  the 
summer  of  1905  she  played  a  special  engagement  on  the  New 
Amsterdam  Theatre  roof,  New  York,  and  the  season  of  1906-7 
she  played  Mary  in  "Forty-five  Minutes  from  Broadway."  The 
season  of  1907-8  she  was  in  vaudeville.  Her  home  is  at  236 
West  Fifty-fifth  street,  New  York  City. 

CORTHELL,  Herbert: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  and  began  his  stage  career 
in  stock  companies  in  New  England.  In  1900  he  joined  the 
Proctor  Stock  Company  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  played  a  round  of  comedy  roles  for  two  years.  He  then 


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joined  the  Musical  Comedy  Stock  Company  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and 
afterward  toured  in  a  musical  farce  called  "Hunting  for  Haw 
kins."  Then  followed  a  tour  in  "Sarchiights  of  a  Great  City." 
The  season  of  1905-6  Mr.  Corthell  was  the  Prince  Plump  in  "The 
White  Cat"  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New  York,  and  the 
following  season  he  played  Billy  Ashe  in  "The  Galloper"  with 
Raymond  Hitchcock.  He  was  then  seen  as  Billy  Saunders  in 
"Strongheart"  with  Robert  Edeson.  The  season  of  1907-8  he 
supported  Lillian  Russell  in  "Wildfire." 

COKEIGAN,  Emmett  (Anthony  P.  Zilles) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Amsterdam,  Holland,  June  5,  1868,  being 
the  son  of  Hubert  Zilles.  He  was  educated  at  St.  Joseph's  Col 
lege,  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage 
in  1884  at  the  Front  Street  Theatre,  Baltimore,  in  "Esmerelda, 
the  Cigar  Girl  of  Cuba."  He  later  joined  the  Charles  Frohman 
Stock  Company,  playing  in  "Men  and  Women,"  "The  Lost  Para 
dise,"  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me,"  "Diplomacy,"  etc.  He  was 
then  seen  in  "Roger  La  Honte"  at  Niblo's  Garden  and  with  Nat 
C.  Goodwin  in  "In  Mizzoura."  For  two  years  he  was  leading 
man  with  the  Dearborn  Stock  Company  in  Chicago,  and  left  that 
organization  to  assume  the  leading  role  in  Klaw  and  Erlanger's 
production  of  "Ben  Hur."  The  next  year  he  went  into  vaude 
ville,  appearing  in  a  one-act  play  for  three  seasons,  at  the  end 
of  which  he  was  seen  in  the  title  part  in  "The  Prince  of  India," 
produced  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York,  September  24, 
1906,  under  Klaw  and  Erlanger's  management.  He  has  been  seen 
also  in  "The  Ghetto,"  "Bauble  Shop"  with  John  Drew,  and  "A 
Southern  Romance."  Mr.  Corrigan  returned  to  vaudeville  in  the 
summer  of  1907.  He  married  Florence  Le  Grand  Foster.  He  is  a 
member  of  The  Lambs  and  The  Players  clubs.  His  favorite  rec 
reations  are  automobiling  and  yachting.  His  home  is  at  Bricks- 
port,  Me. 

COULTER,  Frazer: 

Actor,  was  born  at  Smiths  Falls,  near  Kingston,  Canada, 
August  20,  1848.  He  adopted  the  stage  permanently  in  1875,  hav 
ing  previously  played  in  several  amateur  performances  and  in  a 
few  scattered  legitimate  productions.  His  early  stage  training 
was  a  varied  one,  appearances  with  Mrs.  Sheridan  Shook  as 
Joseph  Surface  in  "Lady  Teazle,"  as  Phileas  Fogg  in  "Around 
the  World  in  Eighty  Days"  at  the  old  Niblo's  Garden,  the  leading 
juvenile  role  in  Mrs.  Bartley  Campbell's  "The  Vigilantes,"  and 
support  of  stars  lirke  Jolm  Owens,  John  Gilbert,  Lawrence  Bar 
rett,  Fanny  Davenport  and  Frederick  Warde  giving  him  a  lib- 


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eral  education.  In  1879-80  he  was  with  Stuart  Robson  and 
William  H.  Crane,  appearing  with  them  in  "A  Comedy  of  Er 
rors,"  "Sharps  and  Flats"  and  other  of  the  earlier  plays  which 
made  Crane  and  Robson  so  successful  as  a  team.  Mr.  Coulter 
played  the  part  of  Lord  Travers  in  the  original  production  of 
"Hazel  Kirke"  and  supported  Thomas  W.  Keene  as  leading 
heavy  man  in  that  actor's  first  starring  tour.  In  1882  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Boston  Theatre  stock  company,  appearing  there 
as  the  Spider  in  "The  Silver  King."  He  was  Miss  Rose  Coghlan's 
leading  man  the  first  year  she  appeared  as  a  star,  and  then  for 
two  years  was  a  member  of  the  famous  Boston  Museum  stock 
company,  appearing  there  with  Richard  Mansfield  in  the  origi 
nal  production  of  "Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde."  In  a  period  of 
two  consecutive  weeks  at  the  Boston  Museum  he  played  fourteen 
different  roles,  a  new  one  every  night.  He  played  in  "Harbor 
Lights"  in  its  seventeen  weeks'  run  in  Boston  and  was  the  Count 
Orloff  of  "Diplomacy"  in  its  production  at  the  Herald  Square 
Theatre  in  New  York.  Later  appearances  have  been  in  "Sport 
ing  Life"  at  the  Academy  of  Music,  New  York,  and  with  Robert 
Edeson.  In  the  spring  of  1906  he  played  ex-Judge  Stott  in  "The 
Lion  and  the  Mouse"  in  its  long  run  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre, 
New  York,  and  continued  in  the  same  part  the  season  of  1907-8. 

COTJNTISS,  Miss  Cathrine  (Mrs.  E.  D.  Price)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Texas,  being  the  daughter  of  Judge  and 
Mrs.  T.  J.  Crooks,  of  Denison.  She  was  educated  in  a  Maryland 
convent,  and  after  graduating  from  a  dramatic  school  in  New 
York  made  her  first  stage  appearance  in  a  small  part  with  the 
Murray  Hill  Stock  Company  in  that  city  in  1901.  She  advanced 
to  leading  woman  in  such  plays  as  "The  Village  Postmaster," 
"Arizona,"  and  "Prince  Otto."  For  two  seasons  she  was  leading 
woman  with  the  Columbia  Stock  Company  in  Portland,  Ore., 
and  for  one  season  with  Keith's  Bijou  Stock  Company  in  Phila 
delphia.  She  was  then  starred  for  forty  weeks  as  Glory  Quayle 
in  "The  Christian"  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  On  the  production  of 
"Mrs.  Warren's  Profession"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New 
York,  in  the  spring  of  1907,  Miss  Countiss  played  Vivie,  Mrs. 
Warren's  daughter.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  appeared  in  vaude 
ville.  Miss  Countiss  was  married  to  Edward  D.  Price,  the  the 
atrical  manager,  at  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  June  30,  1907. 

COTJRTENAY,  William  Leonard: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  June  19,  1875,  and  was 
educated  at  Holy  Cross  College  in  that  city.  He  made  his  first 
appearance  when  sixteen  years  old  in  a  traveling  company  at 


WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAG&  j  //, 

Portland,  Me.  He  remained  with  them  a  year  and  then  joined 
the  Milton  and  Dollie  Nobles  company  in  "The  Phoenix."  He 
became  a  member  of  the  late  Richard  Mansfield's  repertoire 
company  in  1896  and  during  three  years'  engagement  with  that 
actor  appeared  in  "The  Merchant  of  Venice"  as  Lorenzon  in 
"Prince  Karl"  as  Howard  Briggs,  and  in  "A  Parisian  Romance" 
as  Vaumartin.  He  appeared  for  over  two  seasons  with  Daniel 
Frohman's  stock  company  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York,  and 
then  with  the  Empire  Theatre  company  in  "The  Twin  Sister" 
and  several  other  plays.  The  season  of  1902-3  he  was  leading 
man  with  Virginia  Harned  in  "Iris,"  and  "Camille."  The  sum 
mers  of  1902  and  1903  he  played  in  stock  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  and 
the  season  of  1904-5  joined  the  Harry  Davis  Stock  Company  in 
Pittsburg,  Pa.  He  left  this  organization  to  create  the  role  of 
Walter  Corbin  in  "Mrs.  Leffingwell's  Boots,"  produced  at  the  Ly 
ceum  Theatre,  New  York,  and  was  also  seen  in  the  revival  of 
"Trilby"  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Little 
Billee.  The  season  of  1905-6  he  was  again  seen  in  "Mrs.  Leffing 
well's  Boots,"  and  that  of  1906-7  in  "The  Love  Route"  with  Miss 
Odette  Tyler,  and  in  "The  Love  Letter"  with  Miss  Harned.  The 
summer  of  1907  he  led  his  own  stock  company  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 
The  fall  of  1907  he  was  seen  with  the  late  Clara  Bloodgood  in 
"The  Truth,"  and  upon  that  actress's  death  was  engaged  for  the 
role  of  the  Duke  of  Cluny  in  Channing  Pollock's  "The  Secret 
Orchard,"  produced  December  23,  1907. 

COURTLEIGH,  William: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Guelph,  Ontario,  in  1876,  and  was  reared 
and  educated  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  While  studying  law  at  Wash 
ington  University  he  became  a  member  of  the  McCullough  Club, 
an  amateur  dramatic  organization,  and  before  he  was  twenty 
years  old  he  had  attracted  attention  as  an  amateur  actor.  The 
manager  of  a  road  company,  impressed  by  Mr.  Courtleigh's  tal 
ents,  offered  him  a  place  and  asked  him  to  construct  a  melo 
drama  from  a  scenario  he  already  had  in  hand.  Mr.  Courtleigh 
built  the  play  (it  was  called  "Brother  and  Sister"),  gave  up  his 
law  books  and  signed  a  contract  with  the  manager.  After  a  sea 
son  with  John  Dillon's  company,  Fanny  Davenport  engaged  Mr. 
Courtleigh  to  play  the  roles  of  Jean  de  Sereux  in  "Fedora,"  and 
Thyseno  in  "Cleopatra."  He  also  had  an  important  part  in  "La 
Tosca,"  and  it  was  in  Miss  Davenport's  company  that  he  first 
appeared  in  Broadway,  New  York.  His  next  engagement  was 
with  Augustin  Daly's  stock  company,  he  appearing  with  that 
organization  in  "Taming  of  the  Shrew"  and  in  "The  Foresters" 
with  Ada  Rehan.  He  succeeded  Robert  Hilliard  as  the  hero  of 


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"Blue  Jeans,"  played  the  leading  role  in  "In  Old  Kentucky,"  and 
was  leading  man  for  Helen  Dauvray  in  "That  Sister  of  His"  in 
succession,  and  then  followed  Wilton  Lackaye  in  the  principal 
role  in  "The  District  Attorney."  He  was  the  John  Swiftwind 
of  "Northern  Lights,"  the  first  of  the  Indian  plays.  With  the 
company  of  Margaret  Mather  and  E.  J.  Henley  he  played  Posthu- 
mus  in  "Cymbeline,"  Romeo  to  Miss  Mather's  Juliet,  Rudolph  in 
"Leah,"  and  Orlando  in  "As  You  Like  It."  After  appearing  in 
the  title  role  in  "The  Man  of  Honor"  he  was  engaged  by  Daniel 
Frohman  for  the  Lyceum  Theatre  Stock  Company.  He  first  ap 
peared  at  the  Lyceum  in  "The  Princess  and  the  Butterfly,"  and 
when  James  K.  Hackett  became  ill  Mr.  Courtleigh  took  his  place 
in  the  leading  role  in  that  play.  After  appearing  in  "The  Tree 
of  Knowledge,"  "Sporting  Life,"  and  "Trelawney  of  the  Wells," 
he  supported  William  H.  Crane  in  "A  Rich  Man's  Son,"  and  was 
the  King  Charles  of  Henrietta  Crosman's  production  of  "Mistress 
Nell."  He  also  played  John  Ridd  in  the  production  of  "Lorna 
Doone,"  which  ran  eight  weeks  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  Chi 
cago.  He  next  starred  in  "Lost  River,"  supported  Virginia 
Harned  in  "Alice  of  Old  Vincennes,"  and  Maxine  Elliott  in  "Her 
Own  Way."  He  also  supported  Clara  Bloodgood  in  "The  Coronet 
of  the  Duchess,"  and  James  K.  Hackett  in  "The  Fortunes  of  the 
King."  In  the  summers  of  1904  and  1905  he  headed  stock  com 
panies  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  Boston,  Mass.  In  1906,  after 
being  featured  in  the  unsuccessful  "The  Redemption  of  David 
Corson"  and  playing  Charles  Hawtrey's  part  in  "The  Lucky  Miss 
Dean,"  he  went  into  vaudeville  with  R.  C.  MacCulloch's  one-act 
play,  "The  Third  Degree."  In  this  Mr.  Courtleigh  assumed  eight 
different  roles.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  played  "Peaches,"  by 
G.  V.  Hobart,  in  vaudeville.  Mr.  Courtleigh  is  married,  and  has 
a  son,  William  Courtleigh,  Jr.  He  is  president  of  the  Actors' 
Society  of  America  and  a  member  of  The  Players,  The  Lambs, 
and  Green  Room  Club.  His  home  is  at  304  Second  avenue,  New 
York. 

COWLES,  Eugene: 

Opera  singer  and  actor,  was  born  in  Stanstead,  Quebec,  Can 
ada,  being  the  son  of  Dr.  C.  W.  Cowles.  He  went  to  Chicago  as 
a  youth,  to  become  a  clerk  in  the  First  National  Bank.  While 
there  he  sang  in  church  choirs.  In  1888  he  joined  the  Bostonians 
at  Ford's  Theatre,  Baltimore,  making  his  first  appearance  on 
the  professional  stage  as  Squire  Bantam  in  Stevenson  and  Cel- 
lier's  comic  opera,  "Dorothy."  For  ten  years  Mr.  Cowles  sang 
the  principal  basso  parts  with  the  Bostonians  making  his  most 
noted  success  as  Will  Scarlett  in  Smith  and  De  Koven's  "Robin 


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Hood."  On  the  dissolution  of  the  organization  Mr.  Cowles  be 
came  leading  man  of  the  Alice  Nielsen  Opera  Company,  playing 
in  "The  Fortune  Teller"  in  1898.  He  also  sang  in  grand  opera 
in  London,  and  upon  his  return  to  America  appeared  with  hia 
own  company  in  concert.  He  has  supported  Fritzi  Scheff  in 
"Babette,"  and  numerous  other  operatic  stars.  His  last  engage 
ment  was  with  Marie  Cahill.  He  has  composed  many  songs,  the 
best  known  being  "Forgotten,"  "Once  in  a  Purple  Twilight," 
and  "Crossing  the  Bar."  Mr.  Cowles  married  Miss  Louise 
Cleary,  May  23,  1898.  His  home  is  in  Derby  Line,  Vt. 


COYNE,  Joseph: 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  City  March  27,  1870,  and  made 
his  first  appearance  at  Niblo's  Garden  when  he  was  only  thir 
teen  years  old  in  the  spectacle  "Excelsior."  He  then  went  into 
vaudeville  with  a  partner  named  Evans  for  more  than  ten  years. 
Early  in  1895  he  appeared  as  Corrigan  in  "The  District  Attor 
ney"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  and  two  years  later  was 
seen  in  "The  Good  Mr.  Best"  and  in  "A  Stranger  in  New  York," 
playing  the  latter  over  two  years.  In  1899  he  played  in  "The 
Girl  from  the  Barracks"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  and 
two  years  later  he  went  to  London  to  play  in  "The  Girl  from  Up 
There"  with  Miss  Edna  May.  Afterward  he  was  with  Francis 
Wilson  in  "The  Toreador"  for  two  seasons,  and  then  followed  a 
term  with  the  Rogers  Brothers.  He  was  the  Percy  Van  Alstyne 
in  "In  Newport"  at  the  Savoy,  New  York,  early  in  1905,  and 
later  in  the  season  he  was  in  "Abigail"  and  in  'The  Rollicking 
Girl."  In  April,  1906,  he  played  Artie  Endicott  in  "The  Social 
Whirl"  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York,  leaving  that  to  appear 
as  Trooper  Smith  in  "My  Lady's  Maid."  In  the  spring  of  1907 
Mr.  Coyne  played  Billy  Ricketts  in  "Nelly  Neil"  with  Miss  Edna 
May  at  the  Aldwych  Theatre,  London. 

CRABTREE,  Miss  Charlotte  (Lotta) : 

Actress  was  born  in  Grand  street,  New  York,  November  7, 
1847.  Her  father  and  mother  had  emigrated  from  Lancashire, 
England.  Previous  to  going  to  San  Francisco,  in  1851,  her  father 
kept  a  bookstore  in  Nassau  street.  When  she  was  nine  years  old 
Lotta  began  singing  in  public  resorts  in  California  settlements, 
her  first  appearance  being  at  Laporte,  in  Rabbit  Valley,  Sierra 
County,  at  a  conccert  given  by  an  amateur  violinist,  an  Italian 
named  Bona.  Her  first  real  appearance  as  an  actress  was  at 
Petaluma,  in  1858,  as  Gertrude  in  "The  Loan  of  a  Lover."  For 


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two  or  three  years  following  she  traveled  about  California  with 
her  mother,  both  being  members  of  a  vaudeville  troupe.  In  San 
Francisco,  as  a  child,  she  appeared  at  Wilrert's  Melodeon,  her 
usual  reward  being  a  shower  of  gold  pieces  flung  to  the  stage 
by  the  miners  in  the  audience.  Her  earliest  successes  were  made 
as  Paul  in  "The  Pet  in  Petticoats,"  as  Liddy  Larrigan  in  "Fam 
ily  Jars,"  and  as  Little  Nell  in  "The  Old  Curiosity  Shop."  Lot- 
ta's  first  appearance  in  New  York  was  at  Niblo's  Garden  in  1864. 
Three  years  later  she  leaped  into  popularity  as  the  feature  of  a 
summer  season  at  Wallack's  playing  the  Marchioness  to  the 
Dick  Swiveller  of  J.  C.  Williamson.  Then  followed  seasons  of 
great  success  at  Niblo's,  the  Olympic  and  at  Booth's  Theatre.  In 
1883  Lotta  visited  London,  playing  "Musette"  there  December 
22,  under  the  management  of  Harry  Jackson,  at  the  Opera  Co- 
mique.  This  was  a  failure,  but  a  month  later  she  gained  ap 
preciation  in  Little  Nell  and  the  Marchioness.  Prominent 
among  the  many  parts  played  by  Lotta  were  Fanny  Gribbles  in 
"An  Object  of  Interest,"  Tartarin  in  "The  Seven  Sisters,"  Jen 
nie  Leatherlungs  in  "Jennie  Lind,"  Judy  in  "Ireland  as  It  Was," 
Sam  Willoughby  in  "The  Ticket-of-Leave  Man,"  Captain  Klopper 
in  "Catching  the  Governor,"  Andy  Blake  in  "The  Female  Detect 
ive,"  Nancy  in  "Irish  Assurance,"  Kip,  La  Cigale,  Pocahontas, 
Fanchon,  Dick  Wastrell  in  "Old  London,"  and  Nan  in  "Nan,  the 
Good  for  Nothing."  Lotta  met  with  a  serious  accident  while 
playing  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  in  1890,  and  has  now  practically  re 
tired  from  the  stage.  Her  home  is  at  59  West  Fifty-first  street, 
New  York.  She  has  a  summer  place  at  Lake  Hopatcong,  N.  J. 

CRAIG,  Miss  Edith  (Edith  Wardell) : 

Actress  and  stage  director,  was  born  in  England  December 
9,  1869,  being  the  daughter  of  Ellen  Terry,  the  actress,  and  her 
second  husband,  Charles  C.  Wardell  (Kelly),  and  the  sister  of 
the  actor  Gordon  Craig.  She  made  her  first  appearance  on  the 
stage  with  Henry  Irving  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  London,  but 
of  late  has  been  chiefly  occupied  in  designing  theatrical  cos 
tumes,  most  noted  among  which  have  been  her  mother's  dress 
for  her  appearance  as  Queen  Katherine  in  "Henry  VIII,"  and 
all  the  costumes  in  Mrs.  Langtry's  special  production  of  "Madame 
Mars"  in  1902,  and  Mrs.  Brown  Potter's  production  of  "Du 
Barry"  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  London,  in  1905.  In  1907  Miss 
Craig  came  to  America  as  her  mother's  business  representative 
and  stage  manager,  and  incidentally  appeared  in  the  role  of 
Saart  in  "The  Good  Hope."  She  returned  to  London  with  Miss 
Terry  to  superintend  that  actress's  productions. 


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CRANE,  Miss  Edith  (Mrs.  Tyrone  Power) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  in  1865.  She  made  her 
first  appearance  on  the  stage  with  Kate  Claxton  in  "Beetle's 
Baby,"  playing  the  leading  role.  Later  she  became  a  member 
of  Augustin  Daly's  company,  supporting  Ada  Rehan.  Subse 
quently  she  joined  Daniel  Frohman's  organization  at  the  Lyceum 
Theatre,  New  York.  In  1886  Miss  Crane  appeared  in  London  at 
the  Princess's  Theatre  in  "The  Texan,"  returning  to  America 
soon  afterward  to  appear  in  "Trilby"  under  the  management  of 
A.  M.  Palmer,  who  later  starred  her  in  that  play  through  Aus 
tralia.  She  was  then  seen  in  "Roaring  Dick  &  Co."  at  Palmer's 
Theatre,  New  York,  with  Maurice  Barrymore.  In  1900  she 
played  Miladi  in  E.  H.  Sothern's  production  of  "The  Three 
Musketeers."  The  following  year  she  went  on  a  starring  tour 
to  Australia  with  Tyrone  Power,  appearing  in  "Tess  of  the 
D'Urbervilles,"  "Nadjesda,"  and  "The  Only  Way."  She  returned 
to  America  and  was  seen  in  David  Belasco's  productions  of 
"Sweet  Kitty  Bellairs"  and  "Adrea."  Miss  Crane  married  Ty 
rone  Power,  the  actor,  in  1898.  Her  New  York  address  is  58 
West  Sixty-eighth  street. 

CRAITE,  William  H.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Leicester,  Mass.,  April  30,  1845.  His  fam 
ily  soon  afterward  moved  to  Boston,  and  there,  at  the  old  Brim 
mer  School,  which  overlooks  the  stage  entrance  to  the  Hollis 
Street  Theatre,  the  boy  Crane  was  sent  to  be  educated.  He  was 
belter  al  mimicking  his  fellows  and  his  teacher  than  at  his  les 
sons,  because  he  would  mimic  and  would  not  study.  One  vaca 
tion  his  father  got  him  a  job  in  a  music  publishing  house. 
Nothing  seemed  to  go  right  in  the  store  after  Crane  entered  it. 
Ail  of  the  employes  appeared  to  have  a  great  deal  to  do  in  the 
basement.  The  proprietor  found  that  young  Crane  was  the  mag 
net.  As  often  as  he  could,  the  youth  would  give  imitations  of 
the  actors  he  had  seen,  for  he  was  passionately  fond  of  the 
theatre,  and  would  sing  the  songs  which  were  popular  at  the 
time.  He  lost  his  job.  One  day  a  playmate  asked  him  if  he 
could  sing.  Crane  said,  "Yes."  "Come  and  see  my  mother,  then," 
said  the  boy  "and  maybe  you  can  come  with  us.  We  are  actors." 
The  boy's  mother  was  Mrs.  Harriet  Holman,  who  had  been  a 
celebrated  actress  in  her  time.  She  had  formed  a  little  com 
pany  of  her  own,  and  used  to  tour  the  country  presenting  a 
repertoire  of  plays,  farces,  pantomimes  and  operettas.  In  the 
company  were  three  of  her  own  children.  Perugini  was  also  a 
member,  and  so  were  William  Davidge,  Jr.;  Charles  Drew  and 
others  who  became  prominent  on  the  stage.  After  Mrs.  Holman 


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had  heard  Crane  sing  she  sent  for  his  father,  and  the  result  was 
that  the  youth  was  apprenticed  to  her,  he  to  give  his  services 
in  return  for  his  training  and  board.  Crane  made  his  first  ap 
pearance  in  public  in  Mechanics'  Hall,  Utica,  N.  Y.,  on  July  13, 
1863,  as  the  Notary  in  "The  Daughter  of  the  Regiment."  For 
eight  years  he  remained  with  the  Holman  company,  and  it  was 
eight  years  of  hard  work.  In  those  days  a  bill  of  an  evening 
would,  as  a  rule,  include  a  little  farce,  a  comedy,  a  pantomime 
and  a  one-act  operetta,  and  in  addition  to  appearing  in  all  of 
them  Crane  would  sing  and  dance  between  acts.  Leaving  the 
Holmans,  Crane  became  the  low  comedian  of  the  Alice  Gates 
company.  Mr.  Crane  believes  that  Mrs.  Gates  was  the  first  to 
start  the  musical  comedy  idea.  She  would  insert  in  some  of  the 
comedies  airs  from  the  operas,  and  her  success  was  pronounced. 
Between  seasons  with  this  company  Crane  went  to  Boston,  and 
was  the  first  of  many  comedians  to  play  the  part  of  Le  Blanc 
in  "Evangeline."  After  being  low  comedian  in  the  Hooley  Stock 
Company,  of  Chicago,  Crane  took  a  part  in  a  play  called  "Our 
Boarding-house,"  produced  at  the  Park  Theatre  in  New  York. 
In  the  company  Crane  met  Stuart  Robson.  At  the  end  of  the 
season  the  two  men  decided  to  star  together,  which  they  did 
with  success  for  a  number  of  years.  They  made  a  number  of 
important  productions  and  staged  "The  Comedy  of  Errors,"  "The 
Merry  Wives  of  Windsor"  and  other  classical  plays.  Years  ago 
the  best  seats  in  the  theatres  around  the  country  were  sold  for 
a  dollar.  Robson  and  Crane  made  the  first  advance  on  this 
price  while  they  were  presenting  "The  Comedy  of  Errors."  They 
made  the  price  of  the  best  seats  for  their  performances  a  dollar 
and  a  quarter.  One  of  their  best  remembered  successes  was 
"The  Henrietta."  The  actors  separated  in  1889  since  which  time 
Mr.  Crane  has  devoted  himself  exclusively  to  the  production  of 
American  plays.  Among  these  have  been  "Newport,"  by  Clinton 
Stuart;  "The  Senator,"  by  David  D.  Lloyd  and  Sydney  Rosen- 
feld;  "On  Probation,"  by  George  H.  Jessop  and  Brander  Mat 
thews;  "For  Money,"  by  Clay  M.  Greene  and  Augustus  Thomas; 
"The  American  Minister,"  by  Paul  M.  Potter;  "Brother  John," 
by  Martha  Morton;  "The  Pacific  Mail,"  by  Paul  M.  Potter;  "His 
Wife's  Father,"  by  Martha  Morton;  "A  Fool  of  Fortune,"  by 
Martha  Morton;  "A  Virginia  Courtship,"  by  E.  W.  Presbrey; 
"Worth  a  Million,"  by  Mr.  Presbrey;  "The  Head  of  the  Family," 
by  Clyde  Fitch  and  Leo  Ditrichstein;  "Peter  Stuyvesant,"  by 
Brander  Matthews  and  Bronson  Howard;  "A  Rich  Man's  Son," 
by  Michael  Morton;  "David  Harum,"  a  dramatization  of  tha 
novel;  "The  Spenders,"  a  dramatization  of  the  novel;  "Business 
Is  Business,"  by  Octave  Mirabeau,  and  "The  American  Lord," 


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by  George  H.  Broadhurst  and  C.  T.  Dazey,  the  last-named  of 
which  he  appeared  in  at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New  York,  in  the 
spring  of  1906.  On  August  29,  1906,  Mr.  Crane  created  the  part 
of  Joseph  Trimblett  in  "The  Price  of  Money,"  a  comedy  by  Al 
fred  Sutro,  produced  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York.  The 
season  of  1907-8  he  starred  in  "Father  and  the  Boys,"  by  George 
Ade.  Mr.  Crane  is  a  member  of  many  clubs,  including  The 
Lambs  and  The  Players. 

CRESSY,  Will  M,: 

Actor  and  playwright,  was  born  at  Bradford,  N.  H.,  October 
29,  1863.  Before  going  on  the  stage  he  was  successively  a  car 
penter,  machinist,  marine  engineer,  watchmaker,  commercial 
traveler,  and  hotel  clerk.  He  made  his  first  appearance  at 
South  Norwalk,  Conn.,  September  19,  1889,  playing  six  small 
parts  in  "The  White  Caps."  After  engagements  in  the  "Uncle 
Hiram,"  "Busy  Day,"  and  "Little  Nugget"  companies  he  joined 
Denman  Thompson,  playing  Cy  Prime  in  "The  Old  Homestead" 
for  six  years.  He  went  into  vaudeville  December  19,  1900,  and 
has  since  remained  there,  his  most  successful  sketches  being 
"Grasping  an  Opportunity,"  "The  Key  of  C,"  "A  Village  Law 
yer,"  "Bill  Biffin's  Baby,"  "The  New  Depot,"  "Town  Hall,"  and 
"The  Wyoming  Whoop."  In  these  he  has  been  assisted  by  his 
wife,  Blanche  Dayne,  whom  he  married  January  19,  1890.  Mr. 
Cressy  is  the  author  of  one  hundred  and  one  one-act  plays.  He 
is  the  president  of  the  Vaudeville  Club  and  a  member  of  the 
Green  Room  Club,  The  Lambs,  and  the  Brooklyn  Yacht  Club. 
His  recreations  are  automobiling,  fishing  and  farming.  His 
home  is  at  24  South  street,  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  his  summer 
place  at  Cressy's  Island,  Lake  Sunapee,  N.  H. 

CREWS,  Miss  Laura  Hope: 

Actress,  was  born  in  San  Francisco  and  educated  at  the 
State  Normal  School  there.  Her  first  appearance  upon  the  stage 
was  at  the  age  of  four  as  a  singer  and  dancer  at  Woodward's 
Garden,  San  Francisco;  later,  under  the  management  of  Joseph 
R.  Grismer,  being  featured  as  a  child  actress  in  "Editha's  Burg 
lar"  and  other  similar  plays.  She  left  the  stage  for  a  while, 
continuing  her  studies  at  the  State  Normal  School,  and  in  1898 
joined  Frederick  Belasco's  Alcazar  Stock  Company  in  her  native 
city,  rising  steadily  from  a  wordless  part  to  that  of  ingenue. 
She  remained  with  that  organization  two  years,  and  then  came 
East,  joining  the  Murray  Hill  Stock  Company,  New  York,  under 
Henry  V.  Donnelly,  as  ingenue.  Her  good  work  advanced  her  to 


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leading  woman,  which  position  she  held  for  a  year  and  a  half, 
finally  supporting  Eleanor  Robson  in  "Merely  Mary  Ann,"  in 
which  she  scored  her  first  marked  success.  She  succeeded  San- 
dol  Milliken  in  "Hanson's  Folly"  with  Robert  Edeson,  and  then 
supported  Henry  Miller  in  "Joseph  Entangled,"  with  whom  she 
has  been  ever  since.  In  1906  she  originated  the  role  of  Polly 
Jordan  in  "The  Great  Divide"  at  the  Princess  Theatre,  New 
York,  and  played  it  during  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8.  She  also  ap 
peared  in  vaudeville  for  a  short  time  with  Robert  T.  Haines 
and  Mr.  Miller.  Miss  Crews's  favorite  recreations  are  reading, 
music  and  swimming.  Her  permanent  address  is  Le  Marquis 
Hotel,  New  York. 

CRICHTON,  Miss  Madge: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Scarborough,  England,  October  31,  1881, 
made  her  first  appearance  in  the  title  role  of  "The  French  Maid," 
and  later  was  engaged  for  the  principal  female  part  in  a  pro 
duction  of  "Cinderella."  She  finally  joined  George  Edwardes's 
touring  companies,  appearing  in  "The  Toreador,"  and  "The  Mes 
senger  Boy."  In  1902  she  came  to  London,  and  at  short  notice 
played  the  leading  role  on  the  opening  night  in  "Three  Little 
Maids,"  scoring  a  marked  success.  She  then  came  to  the  United 
States,  playing  leads  in  "Kitty  Grey,"  "The  Girl  from  Kay's," 
and  "Three  Little  Maids."  Upon  returning  to  London  Miss 
Crichton  appeared  as  Lady  Madcap  at  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Thea 
tre,  and  in  1905  she  succeeded  the  principal  in  "The  Catch  of 
the  Season"  at  the  Vaudeville  Theatre,  London.  Early  in  1906 
she  joined  Cyril  Maude's  company  at  the  Waldorf  Theatre  there, 
and  was  seen  as  Cicely  Homespun  in  "The  Heir  at  Law."  She 
made  her  second  visit  to  New  York  in  the  fall  of  that  year,  ap 
pearing  in  "My  Lady's  Maid,"  the  American  version  of  "Lady 
Madcap."  The  piece  was  shortly  afterward  withdrawn,  and  for 
a  time  she  appeared  in  "The  Tourists."  Miss  Crichton's  home 
is  at  Crickside,  East  Liversey,  Surrey,  London. 

CRISPI,  Miss  Ida  (Ida  Graham) : 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  England  and  first  attracted 
attention  in  companies  managed  by  George  Edwardes,  playing 
such  parts  as  Mimosa  in  "The  Geisha,"  the  Princess  in  "The 
Country  Girl,"  and  Angela  in  "Florodora."  She  came  to  this 
country  in  1905,  making  a  specialty  of  English  "slavey"  parts. 
Her  first  appearance  in  New  York  was  at  the  Madison  Square 
Roof  Garden  the  summer  of  1906  in  "Mile.  Champagne,"  where 
she  scored  a  success  with  a  song,  "The  Tadpole  and  the  Frog.'" 
She  was  then  engaged  by  C.  B.  Dillingham  for  a  prominent 


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part  in  "Dolly  Dollars,"  a  musical  comedy  in  which  Miss  Blanche 
Ring  was  starred. 

CROSMAN,  Miss  Henrietta  (Mrs.  Maurice  Campbell) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Wheeling,  W.  Va.,  September  2,  1871, 
her  father,  Major  George  H.  Crosman,  U.  S.  Army,  being  sta 
tioned  near  that  city.  Her  mother,  Mary  B.  Wick,  was  a  mem 
ber  of  the  Youngstown,  Ohio,  family  of  that  name,  one  of  the 
mcst  prominent  and  wealthy  in  that  part  of  the  United  States, 
and  niece  of  Stephen  C.  Foster,  the  composer  of  "My  Old  Ken 
tucky  Home"  and  other  famous  songs.  Miss  Crosman  was  edu 
cated  at  the  Moravian  Seminary,  Bethlehem,  Pa.  She  made  her 
first  stage  appearance  as  a  member  of  a  stock  company  at  the 
Soldiers'  Home,  Dayton,  Ohio.  She  met  and  married  there  J. 
Sedley  Brown,  an  actor  and  playwright.  Her  first  appearance 
in  New  York  was  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre  in  "The  Ra 
jah,"  after  which  she  traveled  with  various  companies  and  for 
one  season  supported  Robert  Downing.  After  being  with  the 
Ljceum  Theatre  Stock  Company,  New  York,  in  1889  Miss  Cros 
man  appeared  with  Augustin  Daly's  company  as  Celia  in  "As 
You  Like  It."  She  afterward  rejoined  the  Lyceum  company  and 
played  in  "The  Charity  Ball,"  and  "The  Idler."  She  was  in  the 
original  cast  of  "Mr.  Wilkinson's  Widows"  at  Proctor's  Theatre, 
New  York.  The  season  of  1892  Miss  Crosman  played  in  "The 
Junior  Partner,"  and  "Gloriana,"  at  Herrmann's  Theatre,  under 
the  management  of  Charles  Frohman  making  conspicuous  suc 
cesses  in  each.  In  1896  she  obtained  a  divorce  from  Mr.  Brown 
and  the  custody  of  their  only  son,  then  nine  years  old.  The  fol 
lowing  year  she  was  married  to  Maurice  Campbell.  In  1899  Miss 
Crosman  was  in  Bartley  Campbell's  "White  Slave"  company,  and 
later  played  leads  with  Robert  Downing.  After  seasons  with 
Augustin  Daly  she  began  starring  under  the  management  of 
her  husband,  the  first  play  being  "One  of  Our  Girls,"  by  Bron- 
son  Howard.  The  next  was  "Mistress  Nell,"  by  George  C.  Hazle- 
ton,  produced  at  the  Bijou  Theatre,  New  York,  in  October,  1900, 
which  ran  for  two  years.  This  was  followed  by  a  New  York  run 
of  one  hundred  nights  in  "As  You  Like  It,"  after  which  came 
"The  Sword  of  the  King,"  which  ran  the  greater  part  of  a  sea 
son  in  New  York.  In  1904  she  appeared  at  the  Belasco  Theatre. 
New  York,  in  "Sweet  Kitty  Bellairs,"  a  dramatization  of  "The 
Bath  Comedy,"  by  Alice  and  Egerton  Castle,  which  ran  for  two 
seasons  in  New  York.  Plays  which  followed  were  "Madeleine," 
"Nance  Oldfield,"  "Mary,  Mary,  Quite  Contrary,"  "All-of-a-Sudden 
Peggy,"  and  "The  Christian  Pilgrim,"  a  dramatization  of  "The 
Pilgrim's  Progress,"  in  which  she  played  Christian. 


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DAILEY,  Peter  F.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1868.  He  made  his  first 
appearance  at  the  Globe  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1876,  as  a  dancer 
with  a  barn-door  reel.  He  then  joined  Whitney's  circus,  playing 
clown  and  doing  a  jumping  act.  In  1877  a  vaudeville  troupe 
called  "The  American  Four"  was  organized.  In  this,  with  Mr. 
Dailey,  were  Pettengill,  Gale  and  Hoey.  Bach  member  won 
popularity,  and  as  a  team  "The  American  Four"  was  a  "star 
turn"  for  eight  years.  Mr.  Dailey  joined  the  Boston  Howard 
Athenaeum  company  in  1885,  and  remained  with  that  organiza 
tion  three  years.  He  then  made  his  first  appearance  on  the 
legitimate  stage  as  leading  comedian  in  Kate  Castleton's  com 
pany.  After  playing  Le  Blanc  in  "Evangeline"  for  a  season  he 
was  with  James  T.  Powers  in  "A  Straight  Tip."  Then  Mr. 
Dailey  starred  in  "A  Country  Sport,"  and  "The  Night  Clerk."" 
He  next  became  a  member  of  the  Weber  and  Fields  company, 
playing  many  parts  in  the  New  York  burlesque  house.  He  after 
ward  starred  in  a  musical  comedy  called  "Hodge,  Podge  &  Co." 
The  seasons  of  1905-6-7  he  starred  in  "The  Press  Agent."  The 
season  of  1906-7  Mr.  Dailey  appeared  in  a  one-act  version  of 
this  comedy,  entitled  "Nearly  a  War  Correspondent,"  in  vaude 
ville.  In  January,  1908,  he  was  seen  in  a  burlesque  of  "The 
Merry  Widow"  with  Joe  Weber's  company. 

DALE,  Miss  Gretchen  (Mrs.  Howard  Estabrook) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  March  9,  1886.  Her 
father  was  a  banker  in  that  city  and  owned  an  estate  in  Cali 
fornia,  where  Miss  Dale  spent  most  of  her  early  days.  When 
fifteen  years  old  she  was  sent  to  school  in  New  York,  and  made 
her  first  professional  appearance  in  the  small  part  of  Helen 
Lowell  in  Thomas  Dixon's  play,  "The  Clansman,"  at  the  Liberty 
Theatre,  New  York,  January  8,  1906.  Only  a  few  weeks  after, 
the  death  of  Georgia  Welles  caused  a  readjustment  of  the  cast, 
and  Miss  Dale  became  the  leading  ingenue  as  Nellie  Graham, 
which  she  played  for  the  balance  of  the  season.  She  also  created 
the  title  role  in  "The  One  Woman,"  produced  in  the  winter  sea 
son  of  1906.  The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  she  appeared  in  "The  Boys 
of  Company  B."  Miss  Dale  was  married  to  Howard  Estabrook,. 
an  actor,  December  21,  1907. 

DALE,  Miss  Margaret: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  and  made  her  first  ap 
pearance  at  the  Girard  Avenue  Theatre  in  that  city  in  1897. 
She  then  supported  Henry  Miller  in  "Heartsease"  on  tour,  and 
made  her  first  appearance  in  New  York  as  Mary  Faber  ia 


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Master"  at  the  Garden  Theatre  February  15,  1898.  The  follow 
ing  season  she  played  Lucie  Manette  in  "The  Only  Way"  at  the 
Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York.  Early  in  1901  she  joined 
the  Empire  Theatre  company,  making  her  first  appearance  as 
Janet  Colquhoun  in  "Mrs.  Dane's  Defence."  With  the  Empire 
company  she  also  played  Kate  Johnston  in  "Brother  Officers," 
Edith  Thorold  in  "The  Wilderness,"  Cecily  Cardew  in  "The  Im 
portance  of  Being  in  Earnest,"  Countess  Lucia  in  "Captain 
Dieppe,"  Lady  Henrietta  in  "The  Duke  of  Killicrankie,"  Jacque 
line  Marple  in  "De  Lancey."  In  the  fall  of  1906  she  appeared 
in  "The  Price  of  Money"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  and 
the  balance  of  the  season  played  Constance  Neville  in  "She 
Stoops  to  Conquer"  with  W.  H.  Crane,  Miss  Ellis  Jeffries  and 
company.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  with  Mr.  Crane  in 
"Father  and  the  Boys,"  by  George  Ade. 

DALMORES,  Charles: 

Grand  opera  singer,  was  born  in  Nancy,  France,  January  1, 
1871.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  obtained  a  position  as  musician 
in  the  orchestra  of  the  opera  house  in  his  native  city,  and 
three  years  later  went  to  Paris  where  he  took  up  the  study  of 
violin  and  'cello  at  the  Conservatoire.  In  1894  he  became  one 
of  the  professors  of  the  Musical  Conservatory  in  Lyons,  France, 
giving  lessons  on  the  French  horn  and  violin.  He  studied  for 
two  years  with  M.  Dauphin,  the  celebrated  French  basso,  and 
made  his  first  appearance  as  a  grand  opera  singer  at  the  Theatre 
des  Arts,  of  Rouen,  at  which  playhouse  he  remained  three  years, 
subsequently  singing  at  the  Theatre  Royale  de  la  Monnaie  de 
Bruxelles,  in  Brussels,  for  six  years.  The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  he 
has  been  seen  at  the  Manhattan  Opera  House,  New  York. 

DALTON,  Charles: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England  August  29,  1866,  and  made  his 
first  stage  appearance  in  the  English  provinces  in  1883.  He 
toured  with  the  late  Alice  Lingard  in  numerous  roles,  and  in 
1887  made  his  London  debut,  appearing  as  Gaston  in  "Canaille" 
at  the  Grand  Islington  Theatre  on  November  7.  He  was  subse 
quently  seen  at  the  Grand  Theatre,  London,  in  "Master  and 
Man,"  and  as  Frank  Muller  in  "Jess."  In  1890  he  made  an  ex 
tensive  tour  with  Ben  Greet's  company,  playing  in  "A  Scrap  of 
Paper,"  "The  Ladies'  Battle"  and  other  productions.  Then  he 
appeared  at  the  Royalty  Theatre,  Glasgow,  in  May  of  that  year, 
as  Casella  in  "A  Buried  Talent,"  and  in  August  was  seen  as 
Randal  O'Mara  in  "The  English  Rose"  at  the  Adelphi  Theatre, 
London.  He  came  to  America  and  opened  at  the  American  Thea- 


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tre,  New  York,  as  Maurice  Deepwater  in  "The  Prodigal  Daugh 
ter"  May  22,  1894,  and,  returning  to  London,  appeared  at  the 
Princess  Theatre  in  "The  World."  He  was  in  "Shall  We  For 
give  Her?"  "The  Derby  Winner,"  in  which  he  succeeded  Charles 
Cartwright,  and  in  "Cheer!  Boys!  Cheer!"  He  again  came  to 
America,  appearing  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New  York, 
November  9,  1896,  as  Marcus  Superbus  in  "The  Sign  of  the 
Cross."  He  starred  in  this  until  1901  and  was  then  seen  in 
"The  Helmet  of  Navarre"  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New  York. 
Two  years  later  he  was  seen  in  "Resurrection,"  in  1904  in  "When 
Knighthood  Was  in  Flower,"  and  with  Nance  O'Neil  in  "Magda," 
"Judith  of  Bethulia,"  "Hedda  Gabler,"  and  "The  Jewess."  In 
1905  he  appeared  as  Caesar  in  "The  Nazarene,"  and  the  follow 
ing  year  as  King  Ahasuerus  in  "Mizpah,"  supporting  Elizabeth 
Kennedy.  On  September  16,  1907,  he  was  seen  as  Appius  in 
James  O'Neil's  revival  of  "Virginius"  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New 
York.  Mr.  Dalton  married  Miss  Retta  Walton,  an  English  ac 
tress,  sister  of  Fred  Walton,  well  known  here  in  vaudeville. 

DALY,  Arnold  (Peter  Christopher  Arnold  Daly) : 

Actor,  was  born  October  4,  1875,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  His 
parents  were  Joseph  J.  and  Mary  Daly,  who  were  born  in  Ire 
land.  The  parents  of  George  Bernard  Shaw,  the  Irish  play 
wright,  in  whose  plays  Mr.  Daly  has  achieved  his  most  note 
worthy  successes,  were  their  intimate  friends,  Sir  Ambrose 
Shay,  a  mayor  of  Cork  and  Mr.  Daly's  uncle,  having  frequently 
entertained  the  parents  of  Mr.  Shaw.  Mr.  Daly  was  educated 
at  the  Academy  of  the  Sacred  Heart  and  St.  Patrick's  Academy, 
Brooklyn.  His  first  theatrical  engagement  was  as  call  boy  at 
the  old  Lyceum  Theatre.  His  first  part  that  of  a  butler  in  a 
play  in  which  Fanny  Rice  was  starring.  He  played  minor  parts 
until  he  came  into  marked  prominence  through  his  impersona 
tion  of  Chambers  in  Frank  Mayo's  production  of  "Pudd'nhead 
Wilson."  Prior  to  his  taking  up  the  Shaw  plays,  Mr.  Daly 
achieved  successes  in  "Because  She  Loved  Him  So,"  "The  Bird 
in  the  Cage,"  "Barbara  Frietchie,"  in  which  Julia  Marlowe  was 
the  star;  "Self  and  Lady,"  "Are  You  a  Mason?"  "When  We 
Were  Twenty-one,"  "Lady  Margaret,"  "Hearts  Aflame,"  "Cyn 
thia,"  "The  Girl  from  Dixie,"  and  "Secret  Service."  On  Decem 
ber  9,  1903,  he  produced  Shaw's  "Candida"  for  a  single  matinee 
at  the  Princess  Theatre.  The  success  of  both  play  and  actor 
was  so  marked  that  Mr.  Daly  and  Winchell  Smith  formed  a  part 
nership  to  produce  the  play  at  the  Berkeley  Lyceum.  There 
"Candida"  ran  for  more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  nights.  Mr. 
Daly  followed  it  with  the  Shaw  plays,  "The  Man  of  Destiny" 


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and  "How  He  Lied  to  Her  Husband,"  the  latter  a  travesty  on 
"Candida"  written  by  Shaw  expressly  for  Mr.  Daly.  The  next 
Shaw  production  was  "You  Never  Can  Tell,"  which  had  as  long 
a  run.  Then  came  "John  Bull's  Other  Island,"  and  the  refusal 
of  the  city  authorities  to  allow  Mr.  Daly  to  present  "Mrs.  War 
ren's  Profession,"  after  similar  action  on  the  part  of  the  New 
Haven  authorities.  Mr.  Daly  and  his  leading  woman  were  ar 
rested,  merely  as  a  formality,  and  the  case  was  dropped  when 
he  announced  that  he  would  make  no  effort  to  produce  the  play. 
The  fall  of  1907  Mr.  Daly  founded  the  "Theatre  of  Ideas"  at  the 
Berkeley  Lyceum,  New  York,  playing  three  one-act  plays  there 
each  night.  This  he  abandoned,  and  in  December,  1907,  appeared 
in  a  revival  of  "Candida."  He  married  on  July  1,  1900,  Mary 
Blythe,  a  niece  of  General  La  Grange,  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  They 
have  one  child,  Blythe  Daly.  Mr.  Daly  is  a  member  of  The 
Lambs  and  The  Players. 

DANE,  Miss  Essex  (Mrs.  Arthur  Lewis) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  London,  England,  being  the  daughter 
of  Henry  Findon,  a  London  newspaper  man,  and  cousin  of  the 
well-known  critic,  B.  W.  Findon.  She  was  educated  at  the  North 
London  Collegiate  School  and  the  Royal  Academy  of  Music. 
After  playing  for  a  short  time  in  amateur  productions  with  the 
students  of  the  latter,  she  made  her  first  professional  appear 
ance  as  understudy  to  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell.  Then  followed 
a  year's  engagement  with  Osmond  Tearle  as  leading  woman  in 
principal  Shakespearian  roles  on  tour  through  the  provinces  and 
a  six  months'  tour  in  "Zaza"  under  Charles  Frohman's  man 
agement.  She  was  seen  in  "The  Eternal  City"  as  Donna  Roma 
and  in  "Miss  Elizabeth's  Prisoner."  She  came  to  America,  ap 
pearing  in  New  York  in  Alfred  Sutro's  "The  Fascinating  Mr. 
Vanderfelt"  in  January,  1906.  On  November  5,  1906,  she  was 
seen  as  the  Duchess  of  Donegal  in  "Nurse  Marjorie"  with  Elea 
nor  Robson  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York.  The  seasons  of 
1906-7-8  Miss  Dane  played  the  part  of  Rachel  Neve  in  "The 
Hypocrites,"  succeeding  Doris  Keane.  On  February  8,  1907, 
Miss  Dane  married  Arthur  Lewis,  a  well-known  English  actor- 
manager. 

DANIELS,  Frank: 

Comedian,  was  born  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  in  1860,  where  his 
father  was  a  dentist.  When  Frank  was  very  young  the  family 
moved  to  Boston,  and  there  he  was  educated,  graduating  from 
the  Lawrence  School  and  then  attending  Pierce's  Business  Col 
lege.  For  three  years  he  was  employed  as  a  wood  engraver  by 


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George  Mathews  in  Washington  street,  Boston,  and  at  the  same 
time  studied  singing  at  the  New  England  Conservatory  of  Mu 
sic.  Having  made  a  few  appearances  as  an  amateur,  Mr.  Dan 
iels  made  his  professional  debut  as  the  Sheriff  in  "The  Chimes 
of  Normandy"  in  Chelsea,  Mass.,  in  1879.  He  next  became  sec 
ond  comedian  at  the  Gaiety  Theatre,  Boston;  then  played  a 
brief  engagement  with  the  McCaull  Opera  Company.  He  first 
attracted  attention  with  Atkinson's  Jollities  in  a  farce  called 
"An  Electric  Doll,"  making  a  three  years'  tour  of  the  country 
and  playing  a  season  in  England.  Returning,  Mr.  Daniels,  after 
playing  in  "The  Beggar  Student"  at  the  old  Bijou  Theatre, 
Boston,  created  the  part  of  the  Old  Sport  in  Hoyt's  "A  Rag 
Baby,"  which  he  played  for  three  years  with  such  success  that 
he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hoyt,  Thomas  &  Daniels.  In 
1887  he  severed  his  connection  and  starred  in  "Little  Puck." 
In  1891  he  produced  "The  Attorney."  He  scored  another  suc 
cess  as  Shrimps  in  "Princess  Bonnie,"  but  this  was  eclipsed  by 
"The  Wizard  of  the  Nile,"  produced  in  September,  1895.  "The 
Idol's  Eye"  and  "The  Ameer"  were  his  next  mediums;  then 
came  "The  Office  Boy."  The  season  of  1905-6  he  was  seen  in 
"Sergeant  Brue,"  and  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8  in  "The  Tattooed 
Man."  His  address  is  Rye,  N.  Y. 

D'AECY,  Miss  Belle: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  and  educated  at  the  Louis 
ville  High  School  in  Kentucky.  She  made  her  first  stage  ap 
pearance  in  June,  1895,  as  a  fairy  in  Augustin  Daly's  produc 
tion  of  "The  Midsummer  Night's  Dream"  at  Daly's  Leicester 
Square  Theatre,  London,  and  remained  with  Daly's  organiza 
tion  for  three  and  a  half  years.  She  then  returned  to  her  native 
country,  to  become  prima  donna  with  the  Castle  Square  Opera 
Company  at  the  American  Theatre,  New  York,  and  subsequently 
was  seen  with  George  Edwardes's  Gaiety  Company  at  Daly's 
Theatre,  New  York.  She  toured  through  South  Africa  under 
the  management  of  B.  and  F.  Wheeler,  and  then  through  Aus 
tralia  and  New  Zealand  under  J.  C.  Williamson's  management. 

DARK,  Stanley: 

Actor,  was  born  in  London,  England,  May  15,  1874,  bein? 
the  son  of  Henry  Sidney  and  Marie  Dark.  He  is  a  nephew  of 
Georgina  Burns,  a  well-known  English  prima  donna,  and  of 
Cora  Stuart,  wife  of  T.  W.  Robertson,  the  son  of  the  author  of 
"Caste,"  "School"  and  other  plays.  Stanley  Dark  made  his  first 
professional  appearance  at  the  Palace  Theatre,  Manchester,  Eng 
land,  in  a  one-act  play,  "The  Fair  Equestrienne,"  with  Cora 


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Stuart.  He  next  toured  the  English  provinces  as  Sir  Christo 
pher  Deering  in  "The  Liars."  His  first  marked  success  was  as 
Joseph  Surface  in  "The  School  for  Scandal"  with  Miss  Fortes- 
cue.  He  came  to  this  country  April  11,  1901,  and  became  lead 
ing  man  for  Blanche  Bates,  playing  Bertie  Cecil  in  "Under  Two 
Flags"  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Empire  Stock  Company  the  season  of  1901-2,  and  after 
ward  was  with  Virginia  Harned  in  "Iris,"  "The  Light  That 
Lies  in  Woman's  Eyes,"  "Camille,"  and  "La  Belle  Marseillaise." 
He  played  with  Mary  Mannering  in  "Nancy  Stair,"  and  in  1905 
played  Jermyn  Pyecroft  in  Henry  Miller's  production  of  Henry 
Arthur  Jones's  comedy,  "Joseph  Entangled,"  at  the  Garrick 
Theatre,  New  York.  He  created  the  role  of  the  Duke  of  Claire 
in  Louis  K.  Anspacher's  comedy,  "The  Embarrassment  of 
Riches,"  produced  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  May  14, 
1906.  He  also  appeared,  the  season  of  1905-6,  in  "Mizpah,"  "The 
Embassy  Ball,"  and  "La  Belle  Marseillaise."  On  September  18, 
1906,  he  appeared  in  his  play,  "Man  and  His  Angel,"  at  the 
Hackett  Theatre,  which  ran  only  three  nights.  During  the  sea 
son  of  1906-7  he  played  Tweed  Bix  in  Rachel  Crother's  "The 
Three  of  Us."  Mr.  Dark  is  a  member  of  The  Players'  Club,  New 
York.  On  June  30,  1906,  he  married  Eva  Dennison,  an  actress. 

D'ARVILLE,  Miss  Camille  (Mrs.  E.  W.  Crelin) : 

Comic  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  in  Holland  June  21, 
1863,  and  received  her  musical  training  from  French  and  Ital 
ian  teachers.  She  made  her  first  professional  appearance  in 
London  in  1883  at  the  Strand  Theatre,  where  she  sang  in  a 
series  of  light  operas.  She  afterward  sang  with  the  Carl  Rosa 
Opera  Company,  and  for  a  season  was  under  the  management  of 
Alexander  Henderson.  Miss  D'Arville  came  to  this  country  in 
1S88  to  sing  the  part  of  Anita  in  "The  Queen's  Mate"  at  the 
Broadway  Theatre,  New  York,  Lillian  Russell  also  being  in  the 
cast.  Subsequently  Miss  D'Arville  appeared  for  eleven  months 
at  the  Casino  in  "The  Grand  Duchess,"  "Poor  Jonathan,"  and 
"La  Fille  de  Mme.  Angot."  She  then  became  the  prima  donna 
of  the  Bostonians,  singing  Arline  in  "The  Bohemian  Girl,"  Maid 
Marian  in  "Robin  Hood,"  and  Katherine  in  "The  Knickerbock 
ers."  In  1893  Miss  D'Arville  joined  the  forces  of  Edward  E. 
Rice  and  appeared  in  the  title  part  in  his  production  of  "Venus" 
at  the  Park  Theatre,  Boston.  After  that  Miss  D'Arville  starred 
in  many  light  operas,  making  a  pronounced  success  in  the  title 
part  in  "Madeleine;  or,  the  Magic  Kiss,"  by  Stange  and  Ed- 
wardes.  The  season  of  1906-7  she  starred  in  "The  Belle  of  Lon 
don  Town."  She  has  recently  been  singing  in  vaudeville  houses. 


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Miss  D'Arville  was  married  to  E.  W.  Crellin,  of  California,  Au 
gust  27,  1900. 

DAVENPOKT,  Miss  Eva  (Mrs.  Neil  O'Brien) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  London  and  educated  at  the  Convent 
of  Notre  Dame  in  that  city.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  she  went 
with  her  father  to  Australia.  She  had  received  a  thorough  mu 
sical  training  and,  having  an  excellent  soprano  voice,  began  her 
professional  career  by  singing,  with  Miss  Amy  Sherwin,  scenes 
from  Italian  operas.  She  played  Josephine  in  the  first  Aus 
tralian  production  of  "Pinafore,"  and  then  became  the  prima 
donna  of  the  Montague-Turner  English  Opera  Company.  In 
Australia  she  became  the  wife  of  Neil  O'Brien,  an  actor,  and 
with  him  was  engaged  to  go  to  India  with  Emily  Melville  in  a 
repertoire  of  English  operas.  After  playing  five  months  in  Cal 
cutta  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O'Brien  formed  their  own  company  under 
the  title  of  The  Mascot  Opera  Company  and  visited  Hong  Kong 
and  Manila.  They  played  two  seasons  of  three  months  each  in 
Japan.  The  Mascot  company  lasted  four  years,  during  which 
Miss  Davenport  played  in  twenty-six  operas.  Then  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  O'Brien  came  to  this  country.  Miss  Davenport  made  her 
first  appearance  in  this  country  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New 
York,  as  the  Duchess  in  "The  Drum  Major's  Daughter."  While 
playing  the  Princess  in  "Erminie"  Miss  Davenport  discovered 
that  her  forte  was  comedy,  and  she  has  since  played  nothing 
but  comedy  parts.  She  played  Miss  Big  in  "Poor  Jonathan," 
and  then  went  on  the  road  with  Miss  Pauline  Hall,  playing 
Abigail  in  "Puritania,"  and  the  show  woman  in  "The  Princess 
of  Trebizonde."  This  was  followed  by  her  success  as  the  Queen 
in  "The  Isle  of  Champagne."  In  1897  Miss  Davenport  played 
Lady  Hawser  in  "The  French  Maid"  at  the  Herald  Square  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  under  the  management  of  E.  E.  Rice.  Later  en 
gagements  were  as  Coralie  in  "Papa's  Wife"  with  Miss  Anna 
Held  and  Charles  Bigelow,  Madame  Giraudet  with  Jefferson  De 
Angelis  in  "A  Royal  Rogue,"  Bella  in  "A  Silver  Slipper"  with 
Sam  Bernard  and  the  Spanish  widow  in  "The  Yankee  Consul." 
Her  New  York  address  is  162  West  Eightieth  street. 

DAVENPORT,  Harry: 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  is  one  of  a  family  whose 
name  has  been  prominent  on  the  American  stage  for  more  than 
half  a  century.  His  father,  E.  L.  Davenport,  was  considered 
one  of  the  best  Shakespearian  actors  of  his  time.  His  mother, 
who  was  known  on  the  English  stage  as  Miss  Fanny  Vining, 
was  a  well-known  actress,  and  one  of  his  sisters,  Miss  Fanny 


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Davenport,  was  the  famous  tragedienne.  When  the  entire  fam 
ily  was  gathered  at  the  home  at  Canton,  Pa.,  where  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  E.  L.  Davenport  died,  there  were  nine  children,  nearly  all 
of  whom  at  some  time  or  other  were  players.  Miss  Blanche 
Davenport,  who  was  known  on  the  stage  as  Bianca  La  Blanche, 
was  an  opera  singer  and  was  a  favorite  at  Naples;  Miss  Flor 
ence  Davenport  was  an  actress  and  singer  and  a  member  of 
the  opera  company  organized  by  John  T.  Ford,  of  Baltimore, 
and  Miss  May  Davenport,  who  married  William  Seymour,  the 
manager,  was  a  member  of  the  Boston  Museum  Stock  Company. 
Edgar  L.  Davenport,  who  received  his  early  training  at  the  Bos 
ton  Museum,  is  still  a  prominent  leading  man,  his  most  recent 
appearances  having  been  in  "The  Crust  of  Society,"  "Cumber 
land,  '61,"  "Pudd'nhead  Wilson,"  and  "The  Christian."  Harry 
Davenport,  the  youngest  of  the  children,  made  his  stage  debut 
when  he  was  five  years  old  as  Damon's  boy  in  "Damon  and 
Pythias"  in  his  father's  company.  Soon  afterward  he  played 
a  child's  part  in  "Jack  Cade."  In  his  youth  he  was  a  member 
of  the  original  juvenile  "Pinafore"  company  which  appeared 
every  afternoon  at  the  Broad  Street  Theatre,  Philadelphia.  After 
being  manager  of  the  Girard  Avenue  Theatre,  Philadelphia,  he 
went  to  the  Casino,  New  York,  playing  roles  in  "The  Belle  of 
New  York,"  "The  Rounders,"  "The  Lady  Slavey,"  and  "The 
Burgomaster."  In  the  seasons  of  1904-5-6  he  appeared  in  Lew 
Fields's  "It  Happened  in  Nordland"  company.  He  married 
Phyllis  Rankin,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McKee  Rankin. 

DA  VIES,  Miss  Phoebe  (Mrs.  Joseph  R.  Grismer) : 

Was  born  in  San  Francisco,  her  father  being  Captain  David 
Davies  of  the  United  States  steamship  Madrona,  of  the  Pacific 
Squadron.  She  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  1892 
as  a  member  of  the  famous  Baldwin  Theatre  Stock  Company,  in 
San  Francisco,  under  the  management  of  "Tom"  McGuire,  play 
ing  the  important  part  of  Hortense  in  "Bleak  House."  She  after 
ward  played  the  part  of  Chispa  in  Clay  M.  Greene's  play  of  that 
name  with  such  success  that  W.  H.  Hayden  made  an  offer  to 
star  her.  Feeling  she  was  too  young,  however,  she  remained 
for  two  seasons  as  leading  woman  of  the  Baldwin  Stock  Com 
pany.  In  1883  she  married  Joseph  R.  Grismer,  the  leading  man 
of  the  organization.  Miss  Davies,  during  the  stock  engagement, 
had  played  successfully  many  parts,  including  Ophelia  with 
Rossi,  the  Italian  tragedian;  Juliet  with  W.  E.  Sheridan,  and 
Rosalind  in  a  special  production  of  "As  You  Like  It,"  and  soon 
after  their  marriage  Mr.  Grismer  organized  a  company,  with 
himself  and  wife  as  joint  stars,  which  played  several  seasons  in 


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San  Francisco  and  throughout  the  Middle  West,  Miss  Davies 
scoring  in.  such  parts  as  Rosa  Leigh  in  "Rosedale,"  Mercedes  in 
"Monte  Cristo,"  the  leading  part  in  "The  Pool's  Revenge,"  and 
Lady  Audley  in  "Lady  Audley's  Secret."  Miss  Davies  also  cre 
ated  the  principal  woman's  part  in  Hoyt's  "Midnight  Bell."  Her 
husband  then,  in  collaboration  with  Clay  M.  Greene,  wrote  "The 
New  South,"  in  which  Mr.  Grismer  and  Miss  Davies  starred  for 
three  years,  opening  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York,  after 
ward  playing  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre  and  throughout 
the  country.  W.  A.  Brady  and  Mr.  Grismer  then  produced 
"  'Way  Down  East,"  in  which  Miss  Davies  created  the  part  of 
Anna  Moore,  contributing  largely  to  the  success  of  the  play. 
Owing  to  the  fact  that  her  husband  is  part  owner  of  the  play, 
Miss  Davies  has  continued  to  play  the  part  ever  since  its  pro 
duction  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1898.  Roughly 
estimated,  Miss  Davies  has  appeared  as  Anna  Moore  more  than 
three  thousand  times.  Her  New  York  address  is  care  of  Joseph 
R.  Grismer,  New  York  Theatre  Building. 

DAVIS,  Miss  Fay  (Mrs.  Gerald  Lawrence) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  December  15,  1872,  and 
was  educated  in  this  country.  She  began  her  professional  ca 
reer  as  a  reader  and  reciter,  touring  the  States  with  success. 
Going  to  London,  she  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  legiti 
mate  stage  with  Sir  Charles  Wyndham's  company  at  the  Cri 
terion  Theatre,  playing  Zoe  Nuggetson  in  "The  Squire  of  Dames." 
In  1896  she  played  Antoinette  de  Mauban  in  "The  Prisoner  of 
Zenda"  at  the  St.  James's  Theatre  with  George  Alexander,  with 
whom  she  also  created  leading  parts  in  "The  Princess  and  the 
Butterfly,"  "The  Tree  of  Knowledge,"  "The  Conqueror,"  "The 
Ambassador,"  "Rupert  of  Hentzau,"  "A  Debt  of  Honor,"  and 
"The  Awakening."  She  also  appeared  with  Alexander  in  re 
vivals  as  Celia  and  as  Rosalind.  In  1891  Miss  Davis  created 
the  part  of  Iris  in  Pinero's  play  of  that,  name  and  the  same 
year  came  to  America  to  play  leading  parts  under  the  manage 
ment  of  Charles  Frohman.  She  created  the  title  part  in  the 
comedy,  "All-of-a-Sudden  Peggy."  On  May  20,  1906,  Miss  Davis 
was  married  in  Boston  to  Gerald  Lawrence,  an  English  actor, 
formerly  with  Sir  Henry  Irving's  company.  The  season  of  1906-7 
she  starred  in  "The  House  of  Mirth." 

DAVIS,  Bichard  Harding: 

Novelist  and  playwright,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1864, 
being  the  son  of  the  late  L.  Clarke  Davis  and  Rebecca  (Hard 
ing)  Davis.  He  began  life  as  a  newspaper  man  in  Philadelphia 


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and  then  joined  the  staff  of  the  Evening  Sun,  New  York.  At 
this  time  he  wrote  the  Van  Bibber  stories,  which  first  won  him 
fame.  He  was  special  correspondent  in  the  Greek,  Spanish, 
Boer,  and  Russo-Japanese  wars,  and  has  also  represented  maga 
zines  in  various  South  American  revolutions.  He  is  the  author 
of  many  novels  and  short  stories.  He  began  writing  for  the 
stage  only  a  few  years  ago,  his  first  play  being  "The  Taming 
of  Helen."  His  other  plays  are:  "Ranson's  Folly,"  "The  Dicta 
tor,"  "The  Galloper,"  "A  Yankee  Tourist"  and,  with  Augustus 
Thomas,  "Soldiers  of  Fortune,"  a  dramatization  of  his  novel. 
Mr.  Davis  married  Miss  Cecil  Clark,  daughter  of  J.  M.  Clark, 
of  Chicago,  April  4,  1899.  His  home  is  ?.t  Mt.  Kisco,  New  York. 
His  New  York  City  address  is  Brook  Club. 

DAVIS,  Will  J. : 

Manager,  was  born  in  "Washtenaw  County,  Michigan,  and 
when  sixteen  years  old  entered  the  United  States  Navy,  serving 
four  years.  After  another  similar  period  in  the  Internal  Reve 
nue  Service  in  Mississippi,  he  became  a  theatrical  advance 
agent.  In  1889  he  leased  the  Haymarket  Theatre  in  Chicago, 
and  afterward  managed  the  Columbia  Theatre  in  that  city.  He 
then  became  manager  and  part  owner  of  the  Illinois  Theatre. 
Mr.  Davis  married  the  late  Jessie  Bartlett  Davis,  the  contralto 
singer,  who  died  May  14,  1905.  He  has  since  married  Miss 
Mary  Ellen  O'Hagen. 

DAY,  Miss  Anna: 

Actress,  was  born  in  1884  at  Sandy  Hill,  N.  Y.,  of  Irish- 
American  parentage.  At  an  early  age  she  played  parts  in  ama 
teur  theatricals  in  her  home  town.  She  made  her  first  profes 
sional  appearance  in  Shakespearian  roles  with  Walker  White- 
side.  After  several  engagements  in  classic  drama  she  assumed 
the  role  of  Jane  Bolingbrook  in  "When  Knighthood  Was  in 
Flower"  under  the  management  of  Sweely,  Shipman  &  Co.  While 
playing  this  part  she  was  understudy  for  the  star,  and  appeared 
as  Mary  Tudor  in  many  of  the  large  Eastern  cities  with  such 
success  that  she  was  selected  to  star  in  "When  Knighthood  Was 
in  Flower"  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8. 

DAZEY,  Charles  Turner: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Lima,  111.,  August  12,  1853.  He 
studied  at  the  College  of  Arts,  Lexington,  Ky.,  and  was  gradu 
ated  from  Harvard  University,  where  he  received  his  degree  of 
B.A.  in  1881  and  was  class  poet.  His  first  dramatic  work  was 
a  two-act  comedy,  "Rustication,"  written  while  he  was  a  sopho- 


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more,  produced  by  a  college  society  and  later  played  by  the 
stock  company  at  the  Boston  Museum.  Mr.  Dazey's  first  serious 
play,  "An  American  King,"  produced  by  James  O'Neil,  was  not 
successful,  nor  was  "For  a  Brother's  Life,"  which  followed,  un 
der  the  management  of  J.  M.  Hill.  For  some  years  Mr.  Dazey 
was  interested  in  real  estate  in  Kansas  and  Dakota  and  wrote 
only  light  plays,  such  as  "The  Little  Maverick,"  played  by 
Maggie  Mitchell  during  her  last  season  on  the  stage.  Mr. 
Dazey's  first  real  success  came  with  "In  Old  Kentucky,"  which 
was  played  for  five  consecutive  months  at  the  Academy  of  Mu 
sic,  New  York,  and  by  numerous  companies  all  over  America, 
England  and  Australia.  Other  plays  from  his  pen  are:  "That 
Girl  from  Texas,"  "Rival  Candidates,"  "War  of  Wealth,"  "The 
Suburban,"  "Home  Folks"  and,  in  collaboration,  "In  Mexico," 
and  "The  American  Lord."  Mr.  Dazey  married  in  July,  1887, 
Lucy  Harding.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs,  the  Lotos  and 
Dramatists'  clubs,  New  York.  His  address  is  The  Lambs  Club, 
New  York. 

DAZIE,  Mile.  (Mrs.  Mark  A.  Luescher) : 

Dancer,  was  born  September  16,  1884,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
and  began  her  stage  career  at  the  age  of  sixteen.  She  went 
abroad  in  1900  to  study  the  classic  ballet  and  joined  the  Court 
ballet  at  St.  Petersburg  one  year  later.  After  a  season  there 
Mile.  Dazie  appeared  in  a  unique  dancing  specialty  in  the  lead 
ing  music  halls  of  London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Breslau,  Vienna,  Buda 
pest  and  Hamburg,  returning  to  her  native  country  for  a  tour 
of  ten  weeks  over  the  Keith  circuit  in  1904.  During  that  sea 
son  she  accepted  an  engagement  to  appear  at  the  Wistaria  Grove, 
New  York,  during  the  summer  of  that  year,  under  the  direction 
of  Messrs.  Werba  &  Luescher,  the  latter  of  whom  made  Mile. 
Dazie  his  wife  on  September  16,  1905.  Mr.  Luescher  presented 
Mile.  Dazie,  her  features  hidden  by  a  red  mask,  as  "Le  Domino 
Rouge."  The  idea  caught  the  popular  fancy.  Paris  and  Lon 
don  engagements  followed.  Oscar  Hammerstein  engaged  Mile. 
Dazie  to  head  his  ballet  at  the  Manhattan  Grand  Opera  House 
the  season  of  1906-7,  and  the  following  season  she  was  seen  in 
"The  Follies  of  1907." 

DEAGON,  Arthur: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Seaforth,  Canada,  January  1,  1873.  Being 
compelled  to  earn  his  own  living  when  only  twelve  years  old, 
he  left  school  and  went  to  work  as  an  iron  miner  in  Hurley, 
Wis.  In  1889,  when  sixteen  years  old,  he  made  his  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  at  Captain  White's  Dime  Museum  in  State 


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street,  Chicago,  singing  baritone  solos  at  ten  shows  a  day,  be 
sides  standing  outside  for  inspection  by  the  crowds.  He  was 
then  known  as  "Cowboy  Jack  from  Arizona."  An  engagement 
with  a  stock  company  in  Chicago  followed,  and  the  season  of 
1891-2  Mr.  Deagon  was  with  Ward  and  Yokes.  For  two  seasons, 
beginning  the  fall  of  1893,  he  played  Dick  Scarlet  in  "The  High 
wayman,''  making  his  first  success  in  that  part.  The  seasons  of 
1896-7-8  he  was  with  "The  Belle  of  New  York"  company,  and 
the  following  season  played  in  "King  Dodo"  with  Raymond 
Hitchcock.  In  1900  Mr.  Deagon  went  under  the  management  of 
Henry  W.  Savage,  and  for  five  years  played  Reginald  Hicks  in 
"Peggy  from  Paris."  He  has  also  been  with  Donnelly  and  Girard 
in  "The  Rainmakers,"  and  with  Primrose  and  West's  Minstrels. 
The  fall  of  190G  he  created  the  part  of  "Happy"  Johnny  Hicks 
in  "The  Time,  the  Place  and  the  Girl,"  first  produced  in  Chi 
cago  and  afterward,  in  the  autumn  of  1907,  at  Wallack's  Theatre, 
New  York.  Mr.  Deagon  continued  to  be  featured  in  the  same 
part  throughout  the  season  of  1907-8.  Mr.  Deagon  married  Miss 
Grace  Sawin  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  November  27,  1897.  His  favorite 
recreations  are  motoring,  swimming,  baseball  and  football.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Elks,  and  his  home  is  at  Freeport,  Long 
Island,  N.  Y. 

DE  ANGELIS,  Jefferson: 

Comedian,  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  November  30, 
1859.  His  parents  had  had  stage  careers,  and  his  uncle,  Thomas 
Rosa,  taught  him,  while  he  was  a  boy,  tumbling  and  dancing. 
He  appeared  on  the  stage  at  various  times  while  he  was  still 
in  short  dresses  and  was  only  twelve  years  old  when  he  began 
his  stage  career  as  a  variety  performer  at  Gilbert's  Melodeon 
in  San  Francisco.  When  he  was  fourteen  he  and  his  sister 
joined  forces,  she  being  known  as  La  Petite  Sally,  and  toured 
the  country  in  a  half-hour  vaudeville  sketch.  In  1880  he  and 
his  sister  gave  up  the  sketch  for  a  one-act  play,  "One  Word." 
They  played  this  for  eight  weeks  in  San  Francisco,  and  then 
went  to  Australia  with  it,  presenting  it  there  for  seven  months. 
While  in  Australia  De  Angelis  organized  a  company  which  could 
play  everything  from  grand  and  comic  opera  to  farce  and  bur 
lesque,  and  after  touring  the  principal  cities  of  Australia  with 
it,  took  it  wherever  there  was  an  European  colony  of  any  size 
in  Japan,  China,  India  and  South  Africa.  This  venture  lasted 
four  years,  and  was  marred  only  by  the  death  of  Miss  De  An- 
gclis  in  1882.  When  he  returned  to  his  native  land  De  Angelis 
was  engaged  by  the  McCaull  Opera  Company,  his  first  role  with 
it  being  that  of  Sir  Despard  in  "Ruddygore."  He  remained 


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with  Colonel  McCaull  until  1890,  when  he  accepted  an  offer  from 
Rudolph  Aronson  to  join  the  Casino  company.  There  he  created 
the  role  of  Poor  Jonathan  in  the  comic  opera  of  that  name.  In 
1893  he  left  the  Casino  to  play  the  leading  comedy  role  in  "The 
Prodigal  Daughter,"  returning  again  to  the  Aronson  manage 
ment  the  same  season  to  play  the  Detective  in  "The  Passing 
Show."  His  next  engagement  was  with  "The  Little  Trooper," 
in  which  he  played  the  leading  comedy  role.  On  September  3, 
1896,  he  became  a  star  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York, 
in  "The  Caliph."  He  next  starred  jointly  with  Delia  Fox  and 
Lillian  Russell  in  "The  Wedding  Day."  Since  then  Mr.  De  An- 
gelis  has  starred  at  the  head  of  his  own  company,  presenting 
"The  Royal  Rogue,"  "The  Toreador,"  "Fantana,"  etc.  The  sea 
son  of  1906-7  he  appeared  in  "The  Girl  and  the  Governor,"  and 
the  season  of  1907-8  in  "The  Gay  White  Way."  He  is  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Mason,  a  Mystic  Shriner  and  a  member  of  The 
Lambs,  The  Players,  and  the  City  Club  of  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  where 
his  home,  Sunnyside  Drive,  Ludlow,  is  situated. 

DE  KOVEN,  Reginald: 

Composer,  was  born  at  Middletown,  Conn.,  April  3,  1859, 
his  father  being  an  Episcopalian  clergyman.  He  entered  St. 
John's  College,  Oxford,  England,  in  1879,  and  was  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  B.A.  While  there  he  composed  his  first  song, 
"Marjorie  Daw."  His  first  operatic  composition  was  "Cupid, 
Hymen  &  Co.,"  which  was  never  produced.  In  1887  he  wrote 
"The  Begum,"  produced  by  the  McCaull  Opera  Company,  and 
had  a  successful  run  in  New  York.  This  so  encouraged  Mr.  De 
Koven  that  he  went  abroad  to  study.  While  a  pupil  of  Richard 
Genee  in  Vienna  in  1889  he  wrote  his  third  opera,  "Don  Quixote." 
This  was  followed  in  1890  by  "Robin  Hood,"  made  famous  by 
the  Bostonians.  "The  Knickerbockers,"  "The  Fencing  Master," 
and  "The  Algerian"  followed  in  succession.  "The  Highwayman," 
"Rob  Roy,"  "The  Three  Dragons"  and  most  of  the  music  for 
"The  Man  in  the  Moon"  and  "From  Broadway  to  Tokio"  pre 
ceded  his  opera,  "Happyland,"  in  which  De  Wolf  Hopper  starred 
the  seasons  of  1906-7-8.  Mr.  De  Koven's  "The  Girls  of  Holland,'' 
book  by  Stanislaus  Stange,  originally  called  "The  Snow  Man," 
was  seen  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New  York,  November  18,  1907. 
In  1884  Mr.  De  Koven  married  Anna  Farwell,  the  daughter  of 
the  late  Charles  B.  Farwell,  of  Chicago,  who  was  United  States 
senator  from  Illinois.  He  and  his  wife  are  the  owners  of  the 
Lyric  Theatre,  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Players  and 
The  Lambs. 


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DE  BELLEVILLE,  Frederic: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Liege,  Belgium.  His  father  was  a 
colonel  and  his  brother  is  a  commandant  in  the  Belgian  Army. 
One  of  his  great-uncles  was  a  Prime  Minister  of  Belgium  in 
1830.  Military  service  had  no  allurements  for  him,  and  he 
became  a  player  while  he  was  a  lad  of  twelve  at  school.  He 
was  not  out  of  his  'teens  when  he  made  his  professional  debut 
at  Sanger's  Amphitheatre,  London,  in  1873,  in  "Fair  Rosa 
mond."  His  second  engagement  was  at  the  Theatre  Royal, 
Cambridge.  After  this  Mr.  De  Belleville  appeared  at  the  Stan 
dard,  National  and  Gaiety  theatres,  London,  remaining  at  the 
last-named  for  three  years.  He  played  a  wide  range  of  parts. 
In  1879  he  went  to  Australia  and  played  in  Melbourne  for  five 
months.  His  first  appearance  in  the  United  States  was  at 
Baldwin's  Theatre  in  San  Francisco.  There  he  originated  the 
r61e  of  Count  George  De  Maubreul  in  "Deception,"  and  played 
in  "An  Orphan  of  the  State,"  "The  Upper  Crust,"  "True  to  the 
Core,"  "Forget-Me-Not,"  "East  Lynne,"  "The  Galley  Slave,"  and 
"Fairfax."  A.  M.  Palmer  saw  him  play  the  Dwarf  in  "Nanon" 
at  this  time  and  engaged  him  for  his  Union  Square  Theatre 
company,  New  York.  After  opening  in  Brooklyn  on  November 
8,  1880,  as  Cuthbert  Fielding  in  Edgar  Fawcett's  "The  False 
Friend,"  Mr.  De  Belleville  made  his  first  appearance  before  a 
Manhattan  audience,  playing  the  role  of  Count  de  Carojac  in 
"The  Banker's  Daughter."  He  remained  at  the  Union  Square 
for  three  seasons,  creating  while  there  the  roles  of  Count  de 
Lavard  in  "The  Creole,"  Monsieur  Cavagnac  in  "Felicia,"  Mon 
sieur  Octave  in  "Raymond,"  Clifford  Armytage  in  "Lights  o* 
London,"  Sergeant  Troy  in  "Far  from  the  Madding  Crowd," 
James  Rantzau  in  "The  Rantzaus,"  and  Henri  de  Targy  in  "A 
Parisian  Romance."  He  left  the  Union  Square  Theatre  to  go 
starring,  under  the  management  of  John  Stetson,  in  "The  Cor- 
sican  Brothers,"  and  afterward  in  "Monte  Cristo."  From  1884 
to  1885  Mr.  De  Belleville  was  starred  by  H.  C.  Miner  in  "The 
Silver  King,"  and  "Hoodman  Blind."  In  1885  he  was  in  the 
original  cast  that  produced  "Favette"  at  the  Union  Square  Thea 
tre.  The  season  of  1886-7  he  played  leading  parts  with  Rose 
Coghlan  in  repertoire.  The  season  of  1888-9  he  supported  Clara 
Morris,  being  the  original  Dr.  Clermont  in  the  production  of 
"Helene"  at  the  Union  Square  Theatre,  New  York.  While  play 
ing  in  Charles  Frohman's  stock  company  at  Proctor's  Twenty- 
third  Street  Theatre  he  created  the  role  of  Israel  Cohen  in 
"Men  and  Women."  In  1892  he,  with  Charles  Coghlan  and  John 
T.  Sullivan,  supported  Rose  Coghlan  in  a  tour  of  this  country 
and  a  run  in  "Diplomacy,"  Mr.  De  Belleville  playing  Count  Or- 


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loff  and  Henry  Beauclerc.  In  1894  he  supported  William  H, 
Crane  in  "The  Senator,"  appearing  as  Count  von  Strath.  That 
same  season  he  starred  again  in  "Hoodman  Blind,"  appeared 
with  Rose  Coghlan  again  in  "Diplomacy"  and  supported  her  in 
a  revival  of  "London  Assurance"  at  the  old  Star  Theatre,  New 
York.  In  February,  1894,  he  played  in  "The  War  of  Wealth." 
In  1895  he  played  Count  Trast  in  Sudermann's  "Honor,"  and 
appeared  in  the  melodrama  "The  Last  Stroke"  through  the  sea 
son  of  1896.  In  1897  he  joined  Mrs.  Fiske's  company,  first  ap 
pearing  with  her  as  Henri  des  Prunelles  in  "Divorgons"  at  a 
benefit  performance  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre.  He  was  the 
Alec  Stoke-D'Uroerville  in  her  production  of  "Tess  of  the  D'Ur- 
bervilles,"  the  Fabio  Ronaldi  in  "Little  Italy,"  and  Henri  de 
Sartorys  in  "Frou-Frou."  He  was  the  Baron  Bonelli  of  Viola 
Allen's  production  of  Hall  Caine's  "The  Eternal  City."  In  1905 
he  once  more  joined  Mrs.  Fiske's  company  as  Kleschna  in  "Leah 
Kleschna."  In  May,  1906,  he  appeared  in  "The  Coward,"  pro 
duced  at  McVicker's  Theatre,  Chicago.  The  season  of  1906-7  he 
appeared  in  "Popularity,"  "A  Tenement  Tragedy,"  and  "A  Mar 
riage  of  Reason."  The  fall  of  1907  he  was  seen  in  "The  Step 
sister"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of 
The  Players,  New  York. 

PELMORE,  Ralph: 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  and  commenced  his  stage 
career  there,  one  of  his  first  engagements  being  at  the  old  Ly 
ceum  Theatre,  where  he  played  Jim  Blakely  in  "The  Main  Line" 
in  1886.  He  was  next  seen  as  John  Bird  in  "The  Still  Alarm," 
and  he  created  the  part  of  Tomasso  Monaldi  in  "Mr.  Barnes  of 
New  York."  For  several  seasons  he  starred  in  "Forgiven," 
jointly  with  Frederick  Bryton.  Mr.  Delmore  supported  William 
Gillette  for  two  seasons  in  "Too  Much  Johnson,"  and  then  was 
seen  in  "The  Cherry  Pickers."  After  appearing  in  "Devil's 
Island,"  and  "On  and  Off,"  he  again  joined  Mr.  Gillette,  creat 
ing  the  part  of  James  Larabee  in  "Sherlock  Holmes,"  which  he 
played  for  four  successive  seasons.  He  has  also  been  seen  in 
"M'liss"  with  Nellie  McHenry,  in  "Lorna  Doone,"  in  "The  New 
Clown,"  "Ulysses,"  "The  Other  Girl,"  and  "The  Spellbinder." 
The  season  of  1905-6  he  supported  Miss  Virginia  Harned  in  "La 
Belle  Marseillaise,"  and  "The  Crossing,"  and  played  in  "The 
Stolen  Story."  The  following  season  he  was  in  "The  Daughters 
of  Men"  and  in  "Salomy  Jane"  with  Miss  Eleanor  Robson.  He 
created  the  part  of  Jacob  Ogden  in  "The  Stepsister/'produced 
at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  October  14,  1907.  Mr.  Del 
more  is  the  president  of  the  Actors'  Society  of  America. 


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DE  LUSSAN,  Miss  Zelie: 

Operatic  prima  donna,  was  born  in  New  York  City  and  made 
her  first  stage  appearance  with  the  Boston  Ideal  Opera  Com 
pany  as  Aline  in  "The  Bohemian  Girl."  She  then  joined  the 
English  Opera  Company,  and  during  her  three  years'  engage 
ment  with  that  organization  sang  in  "Carmen,"  "Faust,"  "The 
Daughter  of  the  Regiment"  and  numerous  other  roles.  In  1889 
she  was  seen  at  Her  Majesty's  Theatre,  London,  as  Marguerite 
in  "Faust"  under  the  management  of  Colonel  Mapleson.  From 
there  she  went  to  France,  appearing  at  the  Grand  Opera,  Paris, 
returning  shortly  afterward  to  England  to  join  the  Carl  Rosa 
Company.  Following  a  five  months'  tour  she  was  engaged  by 
Sir  Augustus  Harris  for  Covent  Garden,  London.  In  1898  she 
reappeared  in  this  Country,  supporting  Mme.  Melba,  with  the 
Damrosch-Ellis  Company,  and  creating  the  part  of  Musette  in 
"La  Boheme."  In  1901  she  was  prima  donna  with  the  Grand 
Opera  Company  in  this  company,  and  the  following  year  she 
was  heard  at  concerts  in  New  York.  She  sang  in  grand  opera 
subsequent  seasons  in  most  of  the  chief  cities  of  Europe  and 
America.  The  season  of  1907-8  Miss  De  Lussan  was  seen  in 
vaudeville  here. 

DENNY,  William  Henry  Leigh  (Dugmore) : 

Actor,  was  born  at  Balsall  Heath,  Birmingham,  England, 
in  1853,  being  the  son  of  the  late  Henry  Thomas  Leigh  Dug- 
more.  He  was  educated  at  King  Edward's  School,  Birmingham. 
When  he  was  six  years  old  he  played  a  boy's  part  at  a  provin 
cial  theatre,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  he  made  his  profes 
sional  debut  at  Dundee,  Scotland.  In  1879  he  came  to  America 
with  Lydia  Thompson,  leaving  her  to  appear  at  the  Arch  Street 
Theatre,  Philadelphia,  under  the  management  of  the  late  Mrs. 
John  Drew.  Returning  to  London,  he  joined  the  stock  com 
pany  of  the  St.  James's  Theatre,  under  the  management  of  Hare 
and  Kendal,  and  later  accompanied  Mrs.  Langtry  on  her  first 
tour  in  England  as  her  principal  comedian.  In  1884  he  again 
visited  this  country  as  a  member  of  the  Lester  Wallack  Stock 
Company,  and  in  1885  was  a  member  of  Charles  Frohman's  first 
company.  Again  returning  to  London,  he  created  the  part  of 
the  rural  policeman  in  Pinero's  "Dandy  Dick"  at  the  Court 
Theatre,  and  followed  with  an  engagement  in  the  Gilbert  and 
Sullivan  operas  at  the  Savoy,  London,  making  his  first  appear 
ance  at  that  theatre  as  Wilfred  Shadbolt,  the  jailer,  in  "The 
Yeomen  of  the  Guard,"  and  in  1890-1  playing  the  Grand  In 
quisitor  in  "The  Gondoliers,"  in  which  part  he  appeared  be 
fore  Queen  Victoria  at  Windsor  Castle.  After  the  dissolution  of 


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the  partnership  between  Gilbert  and  Sullivan  he  left  the  Savoy 
company  and  joined  Arthur  Roberts  at  the  Lyric  Theatre  in 
1879.  After  various  engagements  in  England  he  accepted  a  star 
ring  Shakespearian  tour  in  Australia  and  New  Zealand,  playing 
Bottom  in  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream,"  Touchstone  in  "As 
You  Like  It,"  and  Malvolio  in  "Twelfth  Night."  He  was  in  the 
original  production  of  "The  Hypocrites,"  by  Henry  Arthur  Jones, 
at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New  York,  the  season  of  1906-7.  The 
following  season  he  acted  in  London.  He  is  the  author  of  a 
farce,  "A  Mutual  Mistake,"  and  several  other  plays.  In  1889  he 
was  elected  a  life  member  of  the  Savage  Club,  London,  in  rec 
ognition  of  his  services  during  the  five  years  of  his  honorary 
secretaryship  of  that  institution.  He  is  also  a  member  of  The 
Lambs,  New  York. 

DE  WOLFE,  Miss  Elsie  Anderson: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  December  20,  1865,  being  the 
daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Stephen  De  Wolfe.  On  his  death  in 
1890  his  daughter,  being  obliged  to  earn  her  livelihood,  elected 
to  go  on  the  stage.  She  had  previously  made  her  mark  as  an 
amateur  actress,  first  appearing  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  Lon 
don,  at  a  benefit  for  a  church  charity  in  "The  White  Milliner" 
in  the  presence  of  the  Prince  and  Princess  of  Wales,  now  King 
Edward  and  Queen  Alexandra.  She  afterward  acted  in  "The 
Loan  of  a  Lover"  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Eggleston,  Washington 
square,  New  York,  and  in  1886  she  played  Lady  Seymore  in  "A 
Cup  of  Tea"  at  the  University  Club  Theatre.  The  same  year  she 
played  Lady  Clare  at  the  opening  of  the  Tuxedo  Club  Theatre, 
and  later  appeared  as  Lady  Gwendoline  Bloomfield  in  "Drifted 
Apart,"  and  Helen  in  "The  Hunchback"  at  the  same  place.  Other 
parts  she  played  as  an  amateur  were  Mrs.  Prettifet  in  "The 
Mousetrap,"  Lady  Teazle  in  "The  School  for  Scandal,"  and  the 
leading  part  in  "Contrasts."  When  she  decided  to  become  a 
professional  actress  she  obtained  an  engagement  with  Charles 
Fiohman  and  made  her  first  legitimate  appearance  at  Proctor's 
Theatre,  New  York,  October  5,  1891,  as  Fabienne  Lecoulteur  in 
"Thermidor."  She  had  studied  the  part  in  France  under  the 
direction  of  Victorien  Sardou,  the  author  of  the  play.  Then  fol 
lowed  two  seasons  on  the  road,  in  which  she  played  in  "Joseph," 
"Judge,"  and  "Four  in  Hand."  After  playing  Rose  Reade  in 
"Sister  Mary"  Miss  De  Wolfe  joined  the  Empire  stock  company, 
playing  Lady  Kate  Ffennel  in  "The  Bauble  Shop,"  Lady  Charlie 
Wishanger  in  "The  Masqueraders,"  Mrs.  Wanklyn  in  "John 
a-Dreams,"  Mrs.  Glib  in  "Christopher,  Jr.,"  and  Mrs.  Dudley 
Chumleigh  in  "Marriage."  In  1898  Miss  De  Wolfe  made  a  pro- 


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nounced  success  as  Helene  in  "Catherine."  Of  late  Miss  De 
Wolfe  has  forsaken  the  stage  for  decorative  art  work.  Her 
home  address  is  112  East  Seventeenth  street,  New  York. 

DITRICHSTEIN,  Leo  James: 

Actor  and  playwright,  was  born  in  Hungary,  his  father  be 
ing  Count  Ditrichstein  until  he  was  deprived  of  his  title  and 
estates  because  he  supported  the  Hungarian  revolution  in  1847, 
and  his  grandfather,  the  noted  Hungarian  novelist,  Joseph  von 
Eiooes.  Mr.  Ditrichstein  made  his  first  appearance  as  an  actor 
at  Berlin,  where  he  had  established  a  reputation  when,  in  1890, 
he  came  to  this  country  and  made  his  first  appearance  with  the 
stock  company  at  the  Irving  Place  Theatre  under  the  manage 
ment  of  Gustave  Amberg.  He  had  previously  been  leading  man 
at  the  Royal  Theatre,  Hamburg,  for  a  season.  His  first  part  in 
this  country  was  in  Sudermann's  "Honor,"  and  his  second  in 
the  original  version  of  "The  Lost  Paradise."  Having  mastered 
the  English  language  quickly,  Mr.  Ditrichstein  was  engaged  by 
Charles  Frohman  for  John  Drew's  company,  and  in  1893  he 
played  his  first  English-speaking  part  in  "Mr.  Wilkinson's  Wid 
ows."  He  made  his  first  pronounced  success  as  Zou  Zou  in  the 
original  production  of  "Trilby"  at  the  Madison  Square  Garden 
Theatre  under  the  management  of  A.  M.  Palmer  in  1895.  The 
following  year  he  created  the  part  of  the  French  professor  in 
W.  A.  Brady's  production  of  "Under  the  Polar  Star."  He  has 
since  played  light  comedy  parts  in  many  plays,  including  some 
of  his  own.  Mr.  Ditrichstein,  in  collaboration  with  Clyde  Fitch, 
wrote  "Gossip,"  which  was  produced  by  Mrs.  Langtry  at  Palm 
er's  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1894,  and  "A  Superfluous  Husband," 
produced  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1895.  He 
also  wrote  "The  Last  Appeal,"  produced  by  Henry  B.  Harris, 
and  "Are  You  a  Mason?"  "Vivian's  Papas,"  "Harriet's  Honey 
moon,"  "All  on  Account  of  Eliza,"  "Tit  for  Tat,"  and  "The  Song 
of  the  Sword."  The  season  of  1905-6  he  appeared  in  the  farce 
"Before  and  After,"  written  by  himself,  and  in  1907  appeared  in 
his  "The  Ambitious  Mrs.  Alcott." 

DIX,  Miss  Beulah  Marie: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Kingston,  Mass.,  December  25,  1876. 
She  was  educated  at  the  public  schools  in  Plymouth,  Mass.;  the 
Chelsea  (Mass.)  High  School,  and  was  graduated  from  Radcliffe 
College  in  1897,  receiving  the  degree  of  B.A.  and  the  following 
year  that  of  M.A.  Miss  Dix  began  play  writing  and  producing 
while  a  member  of  the  dramatic  club  at  college  and  published 
her  first  one-act  play,  "Cicely's  Cavalier,"  in  1897.  In  1898  her 


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playette,  "Apples  of  Eden,"  and  in  1899  "At  the  Sign  of  the 
Buff  Bible"  were  produced  at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New  York, 
by  the  pupils  of  the  Empire  Theatre  Dramatic  School.  She  be 
gan  collaborating  in  1902  with  Evelyn  Greenleaf  Sutherland  in 
her  dramatic  work,  and  together  they  have  written  and  pro 
duced  "A  Rose  o'  Plymouth  Town,"  1902-3;  "Young  Fernald," 
1906;  "The  Lilac  Room,"  in  which  Amelia  Bingham  starred, 
1906-7,  and  "The  Road  to  Yesterday,"  1906-7  in  America.  In 
England  they  produced  "The  Breed  of  the  Treshams,"  1903-7; 
"Boy  O'Carroll,"  1906-7,  and  "Matt  o'  Merrymount,"  1906-7.  Miss 
Dix  is  also  the  author  of  numerous  short  stories  and  novels. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Pen  and  Brush  Club,  American  Dra 
matists'  Association,  Woman's  University,  New  York;  The  Col 
lege  Club,  Boston,  and  The  Lyceum  Club,  London.  Her  address 
is  87  Lakeview,  Lynn,  Mass. 

DIXEY,  Henry  E.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston  January  6,  1859,  and  made  his 
first  appearance  on  the  stage  when  he  was  ten  years  old  at  the 
Howard  Theatre  in  his  native  town,  playing  Peanuts  in  the 
melodrama,  "Under  the  Gaslight."  Under  the  tuition  of  the  late 
James  S.  Maffat,  the  pantomimist,  he  learned  deportment  and 
dancing,  and  when  Edward  E.  Rice  produced  "Evangeline"  at 
the  Globe  Theatre,  Boston,  on  June  7,  1875,  Dixey's  dancing  got 
him  an  engagement  to  play  the  forelegs  of  the  heifer,  Richard 
Golden  being  the  other  half  of  the  nimble  beast.  During  the 
phenomenal  run  of  "Evangeline"  Mr.  Dixey  played  many  other 
parts,  and  gradually  worked  his  way  up  to  leading  comedian 
through  the  medium  of  such  productions  as  "The  Corsair,"  "Hia 
watha,"  "Horrors,"  "Robinson  Crusoe,"  "The  Babes  in  the  Wood," 
"Revels,"  and  "Cinderella  at  School."  When  the  craze  for  Gil 
bert  and  Sullivan  operas  came  in  he  scored  vastly  as  Sir 
Joseph  Porter  in  "Pinafore,"  Bunthorne  in  "Patience,"  John 
Wellington  Wells  in  "The  Sorcerer,"  and  the  Chancellor  in  "lo- 
lanthe."  He  was  also  very  successful  as  Lorenzo  in  "The  Mas- 
cotte,"  and  Sir  Mincing  Lane  in  "Billee  Taylor."  For  several 
seasons  Mr.  Dixey  played  a  wide  round  of  leading  comedy  parts 
under  the  management  of  John  Stetson  at  the  Fifth  Avenua 
Theatre,  New  York,  and  then  he  produced  the  extravaganza 
"Adonis"  under  the  management  of  Mr.  Rice.  It  was  first  played 
in  Chicago  July  6,  1884,  and  on  September  4  following  it  opened 
at  the  Bijou  Opera  House,  New  York,  and  ran  there  for  more 
than  six  hundred  nights.  May  31,  1886,  Mr.  Dixey  appeared  at 
the  Gaiety  Theatre,  London,  in  "Adonis,"  but,  except  for  his 
caricature  of  Henry  Irving,  the  piece  was  not  a  success.  A  long 


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tour  of  this  country  followed,  and  then  Mr.  Dixey  appeared  in 
"The  Seven  Ages"  which,  however,  did  not  prove  a  second 
"Adonis."  After  a  season  with  "A  Man  with  a  Hundred  Heads," 
Mr.  Dixey  joined  Augustin  Daly's  company  in  1894  and  demon 
strated  his  ability  as  a  legitimate  comedian.  While  with  this 
company  his  most  pronounced  successes  were  as  Malvolio  in 
"Twelfth  Night,"  Marcus  Brutus  Snap  in  "A  Night  Off,"  and  the 
Ballet  Master  in  "7-20-8."  After  a  period  in  vaudeville,  and 
after  dabbling  with  the  profession  of  a  conjurer,  Mr.  Dixey  in 
1899  appeared  as  David  Garrick  in  "Oliver  Goldsmith,"  by  Au 
gustus  Thomas.  The  fall  of  1900  he  starred  in  a  dramatization 
of  Dr.  S.  Weir  Mitchell's  novel,  "The  Adventures  of  Francois," 
with  indifferent  success.  In  1902  he  played  in  "A  Modern  Mag 
dalen,"  in  1903  starred  in  "Facing  the  Music,"  and  the  following 
year  appeared  in  "Little  Mary"  at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New 
York,  and  in  "The  Prince  Consort."  The  seasons  of  1905-6  to 
1907  he  starred  in  "The  Man  on  the  Box,"  and  then  entered 
vaudeville.  Mr.  Dixey  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs  and  The 
Players. 

DIXON,  Thomas,  Jr.: 

Playwright  and  novelist,  was  born  in  Shelby,  N.  C.,  January 
11,  1864,  being  the  son  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  and  Mrs.  Amanda 
(McAfee)  Dixon.  He  was  graduated  from  Wake  Forest  College, 
North  Carolina,  with  the  degree  of  A.M.  in  1883,  and  from  the 
Greensboro  (N.  C.)  Law  School  in  1886.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  all  North  Carolina  courts  and  the  United  States  Dis 
trict  and  Supreme  Court  the  same  year.  He  held  a  scholarship 
in  history  and  politics  at  the  Johns  Hopkins  University,  1883-4. 
Mr.  Dixon  was  a  member  of  the  North  Carolina  Legisature  from 
1884  to  1886,  giving  up  politics  to  enter  the  Baptist  ministry 
October,  1886.  He  was  pastor  of  congregations  at  Raleigh,  N.  C., 
1887;  Boston,  Mass.,  1888-9,  and  New  York,  1889  to  1899,  dur 
ing  which  time  he  held  Sunday  services  in  the  Academy  of 
Music.  Throughout  this  time  and  also  until  1902  he  was  a 
popular  lyceum  lecturer.  In  1902  Mr.  Dixon  retired  to  his  coun 
try  home  at  Dixondale,  Va.,  and  devoted  himself  entirely  to 
literary  pursuits.  His  first  novel,  "The  Leopard's  Spots,"  was 
published  in  1902.  Then  followed  "The  One  Woman"  in  1903, 
and  "The  Clansman,"  and  "The  Life  Worth  Living,"  in  1905. 
That  same  year  Mr.  Dixon  entered  the  ranks  of  dramatic  authors 
with  an  adaptation  of  "The  Clansman"  which  caused  much  com 
ment  on  account  of  its  attitude  on  the  negro  question.  He  has 
also  adapted  "The  One  Woman"  for  the  stage,  and  has  made  a 
play  of  his  latest  novel,  "The  Traitor, '  recently  published.  He 


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is  also  vice-president  of  the  Southern  Amusement  Company.  Mr. 
Dixon  married  Harriet  Bussey  at  Montgomery,  Ala.,  March  3, 
1886.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Players,  New  York. 

DODSON,  John  E. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  London  in  1857.     He  was  educated  for 
the  bar,  but  found  amateur  theatricals  more  to  his  liking  than 
the  study  of  law.     He  made  his  first  professional  appearance  at 
the  Princess  Theatre,   Manchester,  England,  in  1877,  playing  a 
small  part  in  "The  Spelling  Bee"  with  the  late  J.  Lawrence  Toole 
as  the  star.     For  two  or  three  years  he  played   juvenile   lead 
parts  in  small  companies.     He  was  advised  by  Edward  Terry  to 
try  comedy  and  character  parts,  and  began  his  career  as  a  come 
dian  at  the  Gaiety  Theatre,  Dublin,  under  the  management  of 
the  late  Michael  Gunn.     After  a  time  he  became  first  low  come 
dian  at  the  Royal  Theatre,  Worcester,  varying  his  roles,  rang 
ing  from  old   comedy  and   Shakespearian  parts  to   comedy   old 
women  in  Christmas  pantomimes.     He  supported  Joseph  Jeffer 
son  and  J.  K.  Emmett  when  they  were  touring  in  England,  and 
for  a  time  was  with  W.  Calder's  "White  Slave"  company.     In 
1886  he  was  engageu  to  create  the  part  of  Joe  Buskin  in  Maud 
Branscombe's  production  of  "Hearts,"  a  comedy  drama  by  Wal 
ter   Browne.     After   creating   the   parts   of   Carraway   Bones   in 
"Turned  Up"  and  the  Professor  in  "Kleptomania,"  Mr.  Dodson 
was  engaged  by  John  Clayton  to   play  Mr.   Posket  in   Pinero's 
Fourteenth  Street  Theatre,  New  York  in  1899,  and  in  "Danger- 
"The  Magistrate,"  after  which  he  became  a  member  of  the  com 
pany  supporting  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kendal  in  1889.     With  the  Ken- 
dais  he  came  to  this  country,  making  his  first  appearance  in  "A 
Scrap   of   Paper"   at   the   Fifth  Avenue   Theatre.     He   remained 
with  the  Kendals  as  leading  character  comedian  for  five  years, 
playing  in  this  country  and  in  London,  and  making  his  mark  in 
such  parts  as  Baron  Montrichard  in  "The  Ladies'  Battle,"  Pen 
guin  in  "A  Scrap  of  Paper,"  Radford  in  "All  for  Her,"  Moulinet 
in  "The  Iron  Master,"  Sam  in  "The  Queen's  Shilling,"  Gunnion 
in  "The  Squire,"  Baron  Croodle  in  "The  Money  Spinner,"  Cay- 
ley  Drummie  in  "The  Second  Mrs.  Tanqueray,"  Mr.  Bargus  in 
"The  Weaker  Sex,"  and  Captain  Mountraffe  in  "Home."     In  1895 
Mr.    Dodson    was    engaged    by    Charles    Frohman    as    principal 
comedian  of  the  Empire  stock  company,  his  first  appearance  as 
such   being  as  Keber   in   "The   Bauble   Shop."     He   also   played 
Montague    Lushington    in    "The    Masqueraders,"    and    the    Rev. 
Stephen  Wynn  in  "John  a-Dreams."     He  originated  the  part  of 
Cardinal  Richelieu  in  "Under  the  Red  Robe,"  and  played  John 
Weatherby  in  "Because  She  Loved  Him  So."     Mr.  Dodson  made 


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his  first  appearance  in  a  vaudeville  house  October  29,  1900,  as 
Richelieu  in  "Richelieu's  Strategy"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Thea 
tre,  New  York.  In  1902  he  created  the  part  of  Simonides  in 
"Ben  Hur"  at  the  Drury  Lane  Theatre,  London,  and  subsequently 
played  it  for  long  runs  at  the  New  York  Theatre,  New  York,  and 
throughout  the  country.  After  a  season  as  a  star  in  "American 
Invasion"  Mr.  Dodson  played  Pierre  in  the  all-star  revival  of 
"The  Two  Orphans"  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre  in  1904-5 
and  Diggory  in  the  all-star  production  of  "She  Stoops  to  Con 
quer."  The  season  of  1905-6  he  played  the  title  part  in  Klaw 
&  Erlanger's  production  of  "The  Prince  of  India,"  in  "The  Prodi 
gal  Son,"  and  Fagan  in  a  special  production  of  "Oliver  Twist." 
During  the  season  of  1906-7  he  created  the  role  of  Roland  in 
Clyde  Fitch's  "Truth."  Mr.  Dodson  married  Annie  Irish,  an  ac 
tress.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Lotos,  Green  Room  and  New  York 
Whist  clubs,  and  The  Lambs  and  The  Players,  New  York.  His 
address  is  the  Lotos  Club,  New  York. 

DONAGHEY,  Frederick: 

Playwright  and  manager,  was  born  in  1870  in  Philadelphia. 
He  was  graduated  from  the  Central  High  School  there  and  from 
Princeton  University.  He  was  on  the  staff  of  the  Philadelphia 
Press  in  1890,  and  correspondent  of  the  New  York  Recorder,  the 
dramatic  and  musical  critic  in  1896  of  the  Philadelphia  Times, 
in  1900  of  the  Philadelphia  North  American,  and  in  1901-2  of 
the  Philadelphia  Times,  and  later  of  the  Times-Ledger.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Philadelphia  Ledger  in 
1904-6.  In  1889  he  had  experience  as  an  actor  with  Augustin 
Daly's  company.  He  is  the  author  of  "The  Craft  of  Krishna," 
produced  in  1899;  "One  K.  Clive,"  1901;  "Mooney  the  Mummer," 
1903;  "The  Specimen,"  "The  Intense  Irene,"  and  "The  Lure  of 
a  Lady."  He  is  also  the  author  of  "The  Points,"  an  essay  on 
punctuation,  published  in  1888.  In  1906-7-8  he  was  manager  for 
Robert  Mantell. 

DONALDSON,  Arthur  (Danielsen)  : 

Actor  and  singer,  was  born  in  Norsholm,  Sweden,  April  5, 
1869,  and  was  educated  at  Norrkoping  and  Stockholm.  He  made 
his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  at  Norrkoping's  Stora  Teater 
in  1876,  playing  Eric  in  "Uncle  Brozen's  Leather  Couch."  He 
made  his  first  appearance  in  this  country  with  a  Swedish  com 
pany  the  season  of  1886-7,  and  he  afterward  worked  here  as  a 
printer  and  a  watch-case  maker.  While  thus  engaged  he  per 
fected  his  knowledge  of  the  English  language  and  then  obtained 
engagements  to  sing  baritone  roles  with  the  Duff  Opera  Com- 


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pany,  and  on  concert  tours  with  Miss  Emma  Thursby  and  Miss 
Ollie  Torbett  under  the  management  of  the  late  Major  J.  B. 
Pond.  In  1892  he  organized  a  Swedish  stock  company  to  play 
at  the  old  Athenasurn  in  Brooklyn,  New  York  and  afterward  in 
Chicago.  The  season  of  1896-7  he  sang  the  title  role  in  "Rob 
Roy"  with  the  Fred  C.  Whitney  Opera  Company,  and  the  follow 
ing  season  appeared  as  Baron  De  Grimm  in  "Madeleine;  or,  The 
Magic  Kiss."  Then,  after  a  tour  with  the  Tivoli  Opera  Com 
pany  in  San  Francisco,  he  was  engaged  by  the  late  Augustin 
Daly  for  his  musical  company  in  which  he  remained  until  Mr. 
Daly  died.  In  1899-1900  he  starred  in  "Yon  Yonson,"  then  fol 
lowed  an  engagement  with  Miss  Lulu  Glaser  in  "Sweet  Ann 
Page,"  and  the  same  year  he  took  "A  Modern  Viking"  on  tour. 
Mr.  Donaldson  originated  the  part  of  the  Prince  in  "The  Prince 
of  Pilsen,"  produced  by  Henry  W.  Savage,  and  played  it  four 
years  (one  thousand  three  hundred  and  forty-five  times).  The 
season  of  1906-7  he  was  in  "The  Blue  Moon"  company  under  the 
Shubert  management.  Mr.  Donaldson  married  Miss  Florence 
Wolcott,  March  17,  1896.  His  home  is  at  257  West  Twenty-third 
street,  New  York  City. 

DONNELLY,  Miss  Dorothy  Agnes : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  January  28,  1880,  being 
the  daughter  of  Thomas  Lash  Donnelly,  for  many  years  lessee 
and  manager  of  the  Grand  Opera  House  in  that  city.  She  was 
educated  at  the  Convent  of  the  Sacred  Heart  and  made  her  first 
appearance  on  the  stage  in  the  stock  company  of  her  brother, 
Henry  V.  Donnelly,  at  the  Murray  Hill  Theatre,  New  York,  re 
maining  there  three  years,  during  which  she  worked  up  from 
maid's  parts  to  leading  business.  In  1902  she  supported  Robert 
Edeson,  playing  Madame  Alvarez  in  "Soldiers  of  Fortune."  In 
the  spring  of  1903  she  created  the  part  of  Kathleen  Na-Houlihan 
in  W.  B.  Yeates's  play  of  that  name,  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Irish  Literary  Society.  In  December,  1903,  she  created  the  title 
role  in  George  Bernard  Shaw's  "Candida"  in  this  country,  and 
early  in  1904  she  was  the  first  exponent  in  New  York  of  the 
part  of  the  Lady  in  "A  Man  of  Destiny."  She  also  played  the 
part  on  tour.  The  same  year  she  created  the  part  of  Maja  in 
Ibsen's  "When  We  Dead  Awaken."  She  was  the  original  Ruth 
Jordan  in  "The  Little  Gray  Lady,"  playing  the  part  the  season 
of  1905-6,  and  the  following  season  she  played  Louise  Stolbeck 
in  "Daughters  of  Men."  She  played  Marion  Manners  in  "The 
Movers,"  produced  at  the  Hackett  Theatre,  New  York,  October 
3,  1907,  and  afterward  went  on  tour  in  "The  Lion  and  the 
Mouse."  Miss  Donnelly  has  many  relatives  prominently  con- 


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nected  with  the  stage.  Fred  Williams,  the  well-known  stage 
director  and  Dean  of  the  Faculty  of  the  American  Academy  of 
Dramatic  Arts,  is  her  uncle.  Fritz  Williams,  the  actor,  is  her 
first  cousin.  Her  favorite  pastime  is  piano  playing.  She  is  vice- 
president  of  the  Twelfth  Night  Club,  and  her  home  is  at  51 
West  Thirty-ninth  street,  New  York  City. 

DORO,  Miss  Marie: 

Actress,  made  her  first  appearance  in  San  Francisco,  Gal., 
in  "A  Runaway  Girl"  in  1903,  and  subsequently  appeared  in 
that  city  in  "The  Circus  Girl."  She  came  to  New  York  the  same 
year  and  was  seen  as  Rosalba  Peppercorn  in  "The  Billionaire." 
On  November  2  she  opened  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre  as 
Nancy  Lowly  in  "The  Girl  from  Kay's,"  and  in  January  of  the 
following  year  appeared  as  Lady  Millicent  in  "Little  Mary."  In 
October  she  was  with  the  late  Mrs.  Gilbert  in  "Granny,"  playing 
the  part  of  Dora,  and  in  1905  was  seen  in  the  title  role  of 
"Friquet"  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York.  She  went  to  Lon 
don  in  the  spring  of  1905,  opening  at  the  Comedy  Theatre  there 
or.  May  3  as  Lucy  Sheridan  in  "The  Dictator"  with  William  Col 
lier,  and  then  supported  William  Gillette  in  his  play,  "Clarice," 
at  the  Duke  of  York's  Theatre.  She  returned  to  America  to 
tour  in  that  play  the  season  of  1906-7.  On  November  18,  1907, 
she  was  seen  in  "The  Morals  of  Marcus"  at  the  Criterion  Thea 
tre,  New  York. 

DORR,  Miss  Dorothy  (Mrs.  H.  J.  Dam) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston  Mass.,  December  28,  1867.  She 
made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  Chicago  at  the  Opera 
House  in  June,  1886,  as  Rachel  McCreery  in  "Held  by  the  Ene 
my,"  and  her  first  New  York  appearance  in  April,  1887,  at  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Theatre  as  Ethel  Gray  in  "The  Golden  Giant." 
She  was  seen  also,  in  that  city,  at  the  Standard  Theatre  April 
9,  1888,  as  Ethel  Sorrero  in  "A  Possible  Case";  at  the  Madison 
Square  Theatre  December  21,  1888,  as  Madeleine  Bright  in 
"Honor  Bright";  at  the  Union  Square  April,  1889,  in  "Robert 
Elsmere,"  and  at  the  Star  Theatre  September  9,  1889,  as  Mrs. 
Constance  Haverhill  in  "Shenandoah."  She  made  her  London 
debut  at  the  Vaudeville  Theatre  on  March  18,  1891,  appearing 
as  Gary  Dennison  in  "Diamond  Deane."  While  in  Europe  she 
played  in  "Money,"  "Happy  Returns,"  "Dick  Wilder,"  "The  Hon 
orable  Herbert,"  "The  Lights  of  Home,"  in  which  she  succeeded 
Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell  as  Tress  Purvis;  "The  Lost  Paradise," 
and  "Delia  Harding."  In  1902  she  returned  to  America,  assum 
ing  the  principal  role  in  "Frocks  and  Frills."  At  the  Hudson 
Theatre,  New  York,  January  30,  1905,  she  appeared  as  Claire 


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Foster  in  "The  Woman  in  the  Case,"  and  the  season  of  1906-7 
supported  Mrs.  Fiske  in  "The  New  York  Idea."  On  October  14, 
1907,  was  seen  as  Mrs.  Hampton  in  "The  Stepsister"  at  the  Gar- 
rick  Theatre,  New  York. 

D'ORSAY,  Lawrance: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Peterborough,  England.  He  comes  of  an 
old  family  of  lawyers,  and  was  himself  educated  for  the  law, 
but  threw  up  Blackstone  for  the  stage.  After  considerable  ex 
perience  in  stock  companies  and  the  provinces  with  the  usual 
ups  and  downs,  Mr.  D'Orsay  eventually  made  a  position  for 
himself  in  London  in  "swell"  parts  principally  of  the  military 
order,  until  of  late  years  these  special  parts  began  to  be  desig 
nated  by  authors  and  managers  as  D'Orsay  parts.  In  1886  he 
played  a  sort  of  Dundreary  character  with  Minnie  Palmer  in 
"My  Sweetheart"  at  the  Strand  Theatre,  London,  and  subse 
quently  made  his  first  visit  to  America  with  Miss  Palmer  under 
the  management  of  John  R.  Rogers.  Then  followed  a  long  se 
ries  of  engagements  in  the  principal  theatres  in  London  with 
such  well-known  stars  and  managers  as  John  Hare,  Edward 
Terry,  Thomas  Thome,  George  Edwardes,  etc.  During  a  three 
years'  engagement  with  George  Edwardes  at  Daly's  Theatre, 
London,  he  created  parts  written  for  him  in  "A  Gaiety  Girl," 
"An  Artist's  Model,"  and  "The  Geisha/'  He  came  to  America 
with  "An  Artist's  Model."  Mr.  Charles  Frohman  brought  Mr. 
D'Orsay  to  America  again  six  years  ago  to  support  Annie  Rus 
sell  and  to  play  the  King  in  "A  Royal  Family,"  and  Mr.  D'Orsay 
has  stayed  here  ever  since.  After  two  seasons  with  "A  Royal 
Family"  Mr.  Frohman  cast  him  for  a  part  in  "The  Wilderness" 
at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New  York,  and  it  was  his  performance 
in  this  play  that  influenced  Augustus  Thomas  to  write  "The 
Earl  of  Pawtucket"  for  Mr.  D'Orsay,  the  success  of  which  made 
him  a  star.  The  production  was  made  by  the  late  Kirke  La 
Shelle  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre  and  it  ran  just  a  year  in 
New  York.  Augustus  Thomas  next  wrote  "The  Embassy  Ball" 
for  Mr.  D'Orsay,  which  Mr.  Frohman  accepted  and  produced.  The 
winter  of  1907  he  co-starred  with  Cecilia  Loftus  in  "The  Lan 
cers."  Mr.  D'Orsay  married  Miss  Marie  Dagman,  from  whom 
he  obtained  a  divorce.  On  August  18,  1907,  he  married  Miss 
Susie  Rushholme,  an  English  actress,  ;n  England. 

DOWNING,  Robert  L.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  October  28,  1857.  He 
made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  at  the  age  of  eighteen, 
supporting  Charles  R.  Pope  in  "The  Gascon"  at  the  National 


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Theatre  in  his  native  city.  He  remained  with  the  stock  com 
pany  at  the  National  for  four  years,  at  length  retiring  as  lead 
ing  man,  in  which  position  he  succeeded  Thomas  W.  Keene. 
Mr.  Downing  then  joined  Mary  Anderson  to  play  the  leads,  an 
engagement  which  lasted  three  years,  and  the  two  following 
seasons  he  played  juvenile  parts  in  Joseph  Jefferson's  support, 
such  as  Captain  Absolute  in  "The  Rivals,"  and  John  Perrybingle 
in  "The  Cricket  on  the  Hearth."  He  then  embarked  upon  a  star 
ring  tour  in  "The  Gladiator,"  and  first  appeared  before  a  New 
York  audience  in  this  part  at  the  old  Star  Theatre  on  December 
20,  1886;  two  of  those  who  played  small  parts  in  his  support 
being  Dustin  Farnum  and  Lincoln  A.  Wagenhals,  now  of  the 
firm  of  Wagenhals  &  Kemper.  In  the  ten  years  that  followed, 
Mr.  Downing  enjoyed  exceptional  favor  as  a  star,  playing  Vir- 
ginius,  Othello,  Ingomar,  Brutus,  and  Samson,  but  it  was  in 
"The  Gladiator"  that  he  made  his  first  marked  success.  In  the 
middle  90's  he  invaded  the  vaudeville  field  for  a  short  time, 
but  of  late  years,  in  addition  to  conducting  a  dramatic  school 
in  Washington,  he  has  made  several  attempts  at  starring  under 
his  own  management  in  the  smaller  cities.  Mr.  Downing  has 
been  married  three  times.  His  first  wife,  Minnie  Milspaugh, 
died  upon  the  birth  of  their  daughter,  Minnie  Roberto  Downing. 
Miss  Eugenie  Blair  was  his  second;  while  his  present  one  was 
formerly  Mrs.  Helene  Kirkpatrick.  Mr.  Downing's  home  is  at 
Edgemore,  Bennings,  D.  C. 

DRESSIER,  Miss  Marie: 

Comedienne,  was  born  in  Ccbourg,  Canada.  She  made  her 
first  appearance  on  the  stage  when  she  was  sixteen  years  old 
as  Cigarette  in  a  dramatization  of  "Under  Two  Flags"  by  her 
brother-in-law,  Richard  Ganthony,  also  the  author  of  "A  Message 
from  Mars."  Her  next  role  was  Katisha  in  "The  Mikado"  with 
the  Baker  Opera  Company.  Her  first  appearance  in  New  York 
was  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre  as  Cunigonde  in  "The  Robber 
of  the  Rhine,"  an  opera  of  which  Maurice  Barrymore  wrote  the 
book  and  Charles  Puerner  the  music,  this  following  a  tour  with 
the  Bennett  &  Moulton  Opera  Company,  in  which  she  played 
thirty-eight  different  operatic  roles,  ranging  from  the  prima 
donna's  part  to  that  of  an  old  woman.  She  won  favor  for  the 
first  time  when  she  appeared  with  Camille  D'Arville  in  "Made 
leine;  or,  The  Magic  Kiss,"  and  became  still  more  prominent  on 
the  stage  as  the  Queen  in  "1492."  After  playing  with  Eddie  Foy 
in  "Little  Robinson  Crusoe"  in  Chicago  she  appeared  for  a  time 
at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York,  under  the  management  of  the 
late  A.  M.  Palmer.  Following  her  support  of  Miss  Lillian  Rus- 


138  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

sell  in  "My  Lady  Nicotine,"  she  was  engaged  by  George  W. 
Lederer  to  create  at  the  Casino,  New  York,  the  part  of  Flo 
Honeydew  in  "The  Lady  Slavey,"  the  late  Dan  Daly  also  being 
in  the  cast.  In  this  she  made  the  chief  success  of  her  career. 
Her  next  important  roles  were  the  leading  comedy  parts  in 
"Hotel  Topsy  Turvey,"  and  "The  Man  in  the  Moon,"  produced 
at  the  New  York  Theatre,  New  York.  She  appeared  as  a  star  in 
"Miss  Prinnt"  and,  when  that  was  retired,  played  leading  roles 
in  "The  King's  Carnival,"  and  "The  Hall  of  Fame,"  at  the  New 
York  Theatre.  After  recovering  from  a  serious  illness  in  1905 
she  was  engaged  by  Joe  Weber,  and  became  the  feature  of  "Hig- 
gledy-Piggledy,"  "The  College  Widower,"  "Twiddle  Twaddle," 
and  "The  Squaw  Man's  Girl  of  the  Golden  West,"  produced  at 
his  Broadway  (New  York)  music  hall.  The  fall  of  1906  she 
again  joined  the  Weber  company.  The  season  of  1907-8  she 
appeared  in  vaudeville  in  London,  England. 

DREW,  John: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  November,  1853.  His 
father,  John  Drew,  was  a  celebrated  comedian  and  Irish  charac 
ter  actor.  His  mother  was  for  many  years  a  famous  actress, 
one  of  her  last  successes  being  as  Mrs.  Malaprop  with  Joseph 
Jefferson  in  "The  Rivals."  John  Drew,  Sr.,  was  manager  of 
the  Arch  Street  Theatre,  Philadelphia,  when  he  died  in  1862, 
and  Mrs.  Drew  maintained  a  stock  company  at  that  theatre 
until  1877.  She  died  August  31,  1897.  John  Drew,  the  younger, 
was  educated  at  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Academy  in  Philadel 
phia,  and  did  not  adopt  the  stage  as  a  profession  until  he  was 
twenty  years  old.  He  made  his  first  appearance  at  the  Arch 
Street  Theatre  under  his  mother's  management  March  23,  1873, 
as  Plumper  in  the  farce  "Cool  as  a  Cucumber."  He  next  played 
Hornblower  in  "The  Laughing  Hyena,"  and  during  the  next  two 
years  played  many  small  parts,  to  use  his  own  words,  "without 
making  a  particular  impression  with  either  the  audience  or 
myself."  Augustin  Daly  first  saw  John  Drew  in  the  part  of 
Major  Alfred  Steele  in  a  three-act  comedy,  "Women  of  the  Day," 
in  January,  1875.  The  manager  bought  the  comedy  and  pro 
duced  it  at  his  New  York  theatre  with  James  Lewis  in  the  lead 
ing  part.  A  few  weeks  later  he  engaged  Mr.  Drew  and  in  Feb 
ruary,  1875,  John  Drew  made  his  first  appearance  in  New  York 
with  the  Daly  company  as  Bob  Ruggles  in  "The  Big  Bonanza." 
Then  he  appeared  in  "Pique"  and  many  light  comedies.  He 
played  his  first  Shakespearian  part  in  1876  in  r.upport  of  Ed 
win  Booth,  who  had  rented  Daly's  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre  for  a 
season.  Mr.  Drew's  part  was  Rosencrantz  in  "Hamlet."  He 


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also  played  Francois  in  "Richelieu,"  Exton  in  "Richard  II," 
Clavis  in  "The  Lady  of  Lyons,"  Francis  in  "The  Stranger,"  and 
Hortensio  in  "The  Taming  of  the  Shrew."  The  seasons  of  1877-8 
were  spent  in  support  of  Fanny  Davenport,  who  toured  the 
country  in  "As  You  Like  It"  and  other  Daly  successes.  The 
season  of  1878-9  was  spent  with  Frederick  Warde  and  Maurice 
Barrymore,  who  toured  the  country  as  joint  stars,  Mr.  Drew 
playing  Henry  Beauclerc  in  "Diplomacy."  In  1880  Mr.  Daly 
founded  the  theatre  in  Broadway,  New  York,  which  still  bears 
his  name,  and  John  Drew  became  his  leading  man,  a  place  he 
occupied  for  twelve  years.  In  that  time  he  created  a  large  num 
ber  of  light  comedy  roles,  besides  appearing  in  many  Shake 
spearian  plays  and  revivals  of  old  standard  comedies.  In  the 
older  plays  his  conspicuous  successes  were  in  "The  Inconstant," 
"She  Would  and  She  Wouldn't,"  "The  Country  Girl,"  and  "The 
School  for  Scandal."  In  Mr.  Daly's  adaptations  from  the  French 
and  the  German  he  made  personal  successes  in  "The  Railroad 
of  Love,"  "Dollars  and  Sense,"  "A  Night  Off,"  "Nancy  &  Co.," 
"7-20-8,"  "The  Last  Word,"  and  "Love  in  Tandem,"  usually 
sharing  the  honors  with  Ada  Rehan.  Mr.  Drew's  work  was 
favorably  received  in  London  and  Paris  during  the  visits  of 
the  Daly  company  to  Europe  in  1884,  1886,  1888  and  1890.  In 
1892  John  Drew  became  a  star  under  the  direction  of  Charles 
Frohman,  making  his  first  appearance  at  Palmer's  Theatre,  New 
York,  October  3,  in  Clyde  Fitch's  adaptation  of  Alexandre  Bis- 
son's  comedy,  "The  Masked  Ball."  Mr.  Drew  starred  as  Fred 
erick  Ossian  in  "The  Butterflies,"  by  Henry  Guy  Carleton;  in 
"Christopher,  Jr.,"  by  Madeline  Lucette  Riley;  in  "The  Bauble 
Shop,"  by  Henry  Arthur  Jones;  as  Sir  Jasper  Thorndyke  in 
"Rosemary";  in  "A  Marriage  of  Convenience";  as  Major  Dick 
Rudyard  in  "One  Summer's  Day,"  by  Henry  V.  Esmond,  and  as 
Sir  Christopher  Deering  in  "The  Liars,"  by  Henry  Arthur  Jones. 
Other  plays  in  which  he  has  starred  are:  "The  Tyranny  of 
Tears,"  1899-1900;  "Richard  Carvel,"  1900-1;  "The  Second  in 
Command,"  1901-2;  "The  Mummy  and  the  Humming  Bird," 
1902-3;  "Captain  Dieppe,"  1903-4;  "The  Duke  of  Killicrankie," 
1904-5,  and  "De  Lancey,"  1905-6.  The  season  of  1906-7  Mr.  Drew 
starred  in  "His  House  in  Order,"  and  the  season  of  1907-8  in 
"My  Wife,"  opening  at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New  York,  August 
31,  1907.  Mr.  Drew  married  Josephine  Baker,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  they  have  one  daughter.  Their  home  is  at  Easthampton, 
Long  Island.  Mr.  Drew  is  a  member  of  The  Players,  The  Lambs, 
the  Green  Room  Club,  the  Actors'  Fund  Association,  the  Racquet 
and  Tennis  Club,  the  Brook  Club  and  the  Westchester  County 
Club,  all  of  New  York. 


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DROUET,  Robert: 

Actor  and  playwright,  was  born  in  Clinton,  Iowa,  in  1870. 
He  joined  a  traveling  theatrical  company  when  he  was  sixteen 
years  old  and  soon  became  a  manager  on  his  own  account,  play 
ing  a  round  of  Shakespearian  plays.  He  played  leading  parts 
in  support  of  Robert  Downing,  and  appeared  as  General  Dela- 
rouche  in  "Paul  Kauvar,"  supporting  Joseph  Haworth  and  Miss 
Erne  Ellsler.  Mr.  Drouet  supported  Clara  Bloodgood  in  Clyde 
Fitch's  "Girl  with  the  Green  Eyes,"  produced  at  the  Savoy  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  in  1903,  and  appeared  in  "A  Woman  in  the 
Case"  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre.  Later  he  played  in  "Citi 
zen  Pierre,"  and  made  a  pronounced  success  as  John  Storm  in 
"The  Christian"  with  Miss  Viola  Allen,  succeeding  Edwin  Mor 
gan  in  that  role.  With  Mary  Mannering  Mr.  Drouet  played 
Colonel  Jack  Brereton  in  "Janice  Meredith"  at  Wallack's  Thea 
tre,  New  York.  On  October  20,  1906,  he  appeared  as  Arnold 
King  in  Cora  Maynard's  "The  Measure  of  a  Man"  at  Weber's 
Theatre,  New  York,  and  in  the  fall  of  1907  was  seen  in  "The 
Mills  of  the  Gods."  Mr.  Drouet  married  Miss  Mildred  Loring 
October,  1897.  He  is  the  author  of  several  plays,  including 
"The  White  Czar,"  "Montana,"  "Doris,"  and  "An  Idyll  of  Vir 
ginia."  He  is  a  member  of  The  Players  and  The  Lambs,  New 
York. 

DUNBAR,  Erroll: 

Actor,  made  his  debut  in  Lester  Wallack's  company  about 
twenty-five  years  ago,  and  has  played  prominent  and  leading 
parts  in  the  support  of  Mrs.  Fiske,  Mme.  Modjeska,  Miss  Fanny 
Davenport,  Mile.  Rhea,  Miss  Marie  Wainwright,  Miss  Blanche 
Walsh,  Miss  Elita  Proctor  Otis,  Mrs.  Brune,  Miss  Fritzi  Scheff, 
George  Fawcett  Rowe,  Lawrence  Barrett,  John  McCullough, 
Louis  James  and  Robert  Mantell.  He  has  also  been  connected 
with  many  stock  companies,  notably  the  Boston  Museum.  In 
the  past  few  years  Mr.  Dunbar  has  been  leading  man  in  the 
"Young  Mrs.  Winthrop"  company,  and  has  been  featured  in 
Morrison's  "Faust,"  in  which  he  played  Mephisto  four  seasons. 
Mr.  Dunbar's  last  important  engagement  was  in  "Sherlock 
Holmes,"  in  which  he  was  featured  in  the  title  role  for  two 
seasons.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Players. 

DUNCAN,  Malcolm: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  September  19,  1878.  He 
was  educated  in  Brooklyn  and,  deciding  to  adopt  the  stage  as 
a  profession,  he  obtained  an  engagement  with  Richard  Mans 
field  and  made  his  first  appearance  as  the  Second  Guardsman 


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in  "Cyrano  de  Bergerac"  at  the  Hollis  Theatre,  Boston,  October 
2,  1899.  He  remained  with  Mr.  Mansfield  two  years,  playing 
the  Duke  of  Bedford  in  "Henry  V"  and  various  parts  in  reper 
toire.  The  season  of  1901-2  he  played  George  Osborne  in  "Becky 
Sharp,"  and  Adrien  de  Bouvray  in  "Colinette"  with  Miss  Ger 
trude  Coghlan.  The  following  season  he  supported  Miss  Amelia 
Bingham,  playing  Goderby  in  "The  Climbers"  and  also  Fred 
erick  in  the  same  play  later  in  the  season.  The  fall  of  1903  he 
played  Clyde  Hollister  in  "At  Cozy  Corners,"  and  the  latter  part 
of  the  season  he  was  with  Miss  Virginia  Harned,  playing  Jack 
Clomnel  in  "The  Light  That  Lies  in  Women's  Eyes,"  and  Gus- 
tive  summer  stock  engagements  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  Wash- 
ton  in  Maurice  Campbell's  production  of  "The  Raven,"  by  George 
C.  Hazeltine.  The  fall  of  1905  he  played  Heindrich  Vedder  in 
"Rip  Van  Winkle"  with  Thomas  Jefferson,  and  he  created  the 
part  of  Captain  Bixby  in  Benjamin  Chapin's  production  of  "Lin 
coln"  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York,  March  26,  1906,  mak 
ing  his  first  marked  success.  Mr.  Duncan  was  then  engaged  by 
Henry  B.  Harris  to  play  the  part  of  Jefferson  Ryder  in  "The 
Lion  and  the  Mouse,"  in  which  he  made  a  hit  at  the  Hudson 
Theatre,  New  York.  Mr.  Duncan  has  also  played  four  consecu 
tive  summer  stock  engagements  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  Wash 
ington,  D.  C.,  in  conjunction  with  Edwin  Arden,  Guy  Standing 
and  Wilton  Lackaye.  His  favorite  recreations  are  tennis  and 
swimming.  His  summer  address  is  at  Spring  Lake,  N.  J. 

DUPREE,  Miss  Minnie: 

Actress,  was  born  in  California,  where  she  gained  her  first 
stage  experience.  She  came  into  prominence  while  playing  in 
"The  Heart  of  Maryland"  under  the  management:  of  David  Be- 
lasco.  She  played  with  Miss  Blanche  Bates  in  special  mati 
nees  of  "Hedda  Gabler"  at  the  Belasco  Theatre,  New  York; 
then  she  created  the  part  of  Helen  Stanton  in  "The  Music  Mas 
ter"  with  David  Warfield,  playing  it  for  two  seasons.  She  has 
also  been  seen  in  "Two  Little  Vagrants,"  in  "Old  Heidelberg" 
with  Richard  Mansfield,  in  "The  Climbers,"  and  in  "  'Way  Down 
East"  with  Miss  Phoebe  Davis.  She  made  her  first  great  suc 
cess  as  Elspeth  Tyrell  in  "The  Road  to  Yesterday,"  produced 
at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  in  the  fall  of  1906, 
and  continued  with  it  the  season  of  1907-8. 

DTJSE,   Miss    Eleanora: 

Actress,  was  born  in  a  wagon  on  a  road  in  the  vicinity  of 
\enice  October  3,  1859,  being  the  daughter  of  traveling  players. 


142  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

She  appeared  in  her  childhood  days  with  her  parents  in  their 
repertoire  of  crude  dramas  in  provincial  towns,  finally  drifting 
away  from  them  to  appear  in  occasional  engagements  with  road 
companies.  It  was  not  until  1883,  however,  that  her  talents 
became  recognized,  and  she  was  pronounced  one  of  the  world's 
greatest  tragediennes.  She  toured  Europe  in  such  plays  as 
"Magda,"  "La  Tosca,"  and  "La  Dame  aux  Camellias,"  finally 
coming  to  America  and  opening  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre, 
New  York,  in  January,  1892,  playing  her  famous  roles.  She 
returned  to  England  for  a  three-year  engagement,  visiting 
America  again  in  1896.  She  was  seen  in  this  country  in  1902 
also,  but,  owing  to  her  inability  to  please  the  American  public 
with  Gabriel  D'Annunzio's  plays,  her  tour  was  unsuccessful 
and  ended  somewhat  abruptly.  She  returned  to  Europe,  assum 
ing  her  old,  better-liked  parts. 

DWYER,  Miss  Ada  (Mrs.  Harold  Russell) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  educated  in  Boston. 
She  appeared  there  and  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  amateur  theatricals. 
Her  first  professional  appearance  was  in  the  melodrama  "Alone 
in  London."  After  that  she  played  the  star  role  in  "Nan,"  and 
in  1890  appeared  at  Miner's  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New  York,  in 
"One  Error."  The  following  year  she  played  Donna  Julia  in  "Don 
Juan"  with  the  late  Richard  Mansfield  at  the  Garden  Theatre, 
New  York.  In  1892  she  was  seen  as  Mrs.  Greenthorn  in  "Hus 
band  and  Wife,"  and  the  two  following  seasons  played  Madge  in 
"Across  the  Potomac"  and  Mabel  Wentworth  in  "A  Woman's  Re 
venge."  Then  followed  three  years  as  Roxy  in  "Pudd'nhead  Wil 
son"  with  the  late  Frank  Mayo.  In  1899  she  was  seen  in  "Chil 
dren  of  the  Ghetto"  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  for  successive  seasons  played  Grandma  Gates  in  "The  Lost 
River,"  Fanchette  in  "A  Gentleman  of  France"  with  Kyrle  Bellew,. 
Deborah  in  "Audrey,"  Lady  Capulet  in  an  all-star  cast  of  "Romeo 
and  Juliet,"  and  Mrs.  Leadbatter  in  "Merely  Mary  Ann"  with 
Miss  Eleanor  Robson,  both  in  this  country  and  in  London.  She 
also  played  Juanita  in  "The  Dictator,"  in  London,  with  William 
Collier,  and  in  the  spring  of  1906  was  seen  as  Mrs.  Waring  in 
"The  Girl  Who  Has  Everything"  in  this  country.  The  fall  of 
1906  she  played  Biddy  O'Mulligan  in  "Nurse  Marjory"  at  the 
Liberty  Theatre,  New  York;  Mrs.  Kelly  in  "A  Tenement  Trag 
edy,"  Elizabeth  Raffieton  in  "Susan  in  Search  of  a  Husband," 
and  Lize  Heath  in  "Salomy  Jane,"  which  she  continued  to  play 
the  season  of  1907-8.  She  also  recently  appeared  as  the  Queen 
in  Browning's  "In  a  Balcony." 


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DYETT,  Walter  Fairman: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  in  1873.  He  was  educated 
at  Berkeley  School,  New  York,  and  Trinity  College,  Hartford, 
Conn.  While  at  college  he  was  prominently  identified  with  dra 
matic  entertainments,  and  upon  assuming  commercial  business 
he  still  was  associated  with  amateur  theatricals,  appearing  in 
many  plays  produced  by  The  Strollers  in  New  York.  Mr.  Dyett 
made  his  first  professional  appearance  in  vaudeville  in  a  sketch 
entitled  "Wanted,  a  Groom,"  which  proved  a  success.  After  a 
short  season  with  the  Proctor  Stock  Company  at  the  Fifth  Ave 
nue  Theatre,  New  York,  he  appeared  in  a  musical  comedy  called 
"Cupid  &  Co.,"  scoring  his  first  pronounced  success.  Mr.  Dyett 
first  appeared  in  New  York  as  the  Duke  of  Gadsbook  in  "Abi 
gail,"  supporting  Grace  George  under  the  management  of  Will 
iam  A.  Brady  in  1904.  The  season  of  1905-6  he  was  in  the 
cast  of  "His  Majesty."  The  fall  season  of  1906  Mr.  Dyett  played 
Artie  Endicott  in  "The  Social  Whirl,"  opening  at  the  Casino 
Theatre,  New  York,  and  afterward  touring  the  country  under 
the  management  of  the  Shuberts.  The  fall  of  1907  he  was  seen 
in  Alfred  E.  Aarons's  "Yama"  at  the  Walnut  Street  Theatre, 
Philadelphia.  Mr.  Dyett  is  a  member  of  the  Green  Room  Club 
and  The  Strollers,  New  York. 

EARL,  Miss  Virginia: 

Actress  and  light  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  in  Cincin 
nati,  Ohio,  August  6,  1875.  She  made  her  first  appearance  on 
the  stage  as  Nanki-Poo  in  "The  Mikado"  in  1887  while  a  mem 
ber  of  the  Home  Juvenile  Opera  Company.  She  also  played 
the  principal  tenor  parts  in  "Patience,"  "Pinafcre,"  and  "The 
Pirates  of  Penzance"  with  this  organization.  A  Western  tour 
with  the  Pike  Opera  Company  ended  in  San  Francisco,  where 
Miss  Earl  joined  Hallen  and  Hart,  playing  in  "Later  On"  with 
them  for  two  seasons.  Miss  Earl's  next  engagement  was  with  Ed 
ward  E.  Rice  under  whose  management  she  spent  three  years 
in  Australia,  playing  Gabriel  in  "Evangeline,"  Taggs  in  "The 
County  Fair,"  Fedora  in  "The  Corsair,"  and  Dan  Deny  in  "Cin 
derella."  Returning  to  this  country,  Miss  Earl  played  the 
Lunch  Counter  Girl  in  Hoyt's  farce,  "A  Hole  in  the  Ground." 
Then  she  joined  the  D.  W.  Truss  Opera  Company,  playing  Ma- 
taya  in  "Wang"  on  the  road  for  two  seasons.  Following  this 
she  made  her  first  appearance  in  New  York  in  1893,  being  en 
gaged  for  the  Casino  Theatre,  where  her  first  role  was  in  "The 
Passing  Show."  Roles  in  "The  Merry  World,"  in  "Gay  New 
York,"  and  in  "The  Lady  Slavey"  followed.  After  four  seasons 
at  the  Casino  Miss  Earl  was  engaged  by  Augustin  Daly  to  play 


144  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Mollie  Seamore  in  "The  Geisha"  in  1897.  Under  Mr.  Daly's 
management  she  also  played  Flora  in  "Meg  Merrilies,"  Ada 
Rehan's  Maid  in  "The  Wonder"  and  in  several  Shakespearian 
plays.  Her  Ariel  in  "The  Tempest"  called  forth  praise.  Then 
Miss  Earl  again  slipped  back  into  musical  comedy,  winning 
laurels  as  Dora  in  "The  Circus  Girl,"  and  Winifred  Grey  in 
"A  Runaway  Girl."  The  death  of  Augustin  Daly  terminated 
Miss  Earl's  career  at  the  theatre  bearing  his  name,  and  she 
went  back  to  the  Casino  in  1900,  making  her  reappearance  in 
"The  Casino  Girl."  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  Miss  Earl 
played  in  "The  Girl  from  Up  There"  under  the  management  of 
Charles  Frohman,  and  later  in  "The  Belle  of  Bohemia."  The 
season  of  1901-2  she  played  in  "Florodora"  at  the  New  York 
Theatre  Winter  Garden.  The  following  season  she  starred  in 
"Sergeant  Kitty"  under  the  management  of  George  R.  White. 
For  the  last  few  years  Miss  Earl  has  been  seen  chiefly  at  the 
vaudeville  houses.  Miss  Earl  was  married  to  Frank  Lawton, 
who  at  the  time  was  playing  the  Dancing  Master  and  doing  a 
whistling  specialty  in  "The  Milk  White  Flag"  at  Hoyt's  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  October  15,  1894.  She  obtained  a  divorce  from 
him  eight  years  later. 

EDESON,  Robert: 

Was  born  in  New  Orleans  in  1868,  his  father,  George  R. 
Edeson,  being  a  well-known  comedian  and  stage  manager.  He 
was  educated  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1886  became  box  office 
clerk  at  the  Park  Theatre  there,  then  under  the  management 
of  Colonel  Sinn.  The  following  year,  when  Cora  Tanner  was 
to  produce  "Fascination"  there,  an  actor  cast  for  a  minor  part 
became  ill.  The  Colonel  was  in  a  dilemma.  Young  Edeson  vol 
unteered  to  play  the  part,  and  Colonel  Sinn  offered  to  bet  him 
a  hundred  dollars  he  could  not  succeed.  But  Edeson  did  suc 
ceed,  and  for  his  first  appearance  on  any  stage  he  earned  one 
hundred  dollars  in  a  night.  The  following  season  Mr.  Edeson 
played  a  juvenile  part  in  a  small  company  presenting  Augustin 
Daly's  "A  Night  Off."  After  a  season  with  "The  Dark  Secret" 
Mr.  Edeson  joined  Charles  Dickson's  company,  playing  in  "In 
cog."  In  this  company  he  met  Ellen  Burg,  an  actress,  whom  he 
made  his  wife.  She  died  in  June,  1906.  In  1890  he  played  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Moore  in  "The  Good  Old  Times"  at  the  Fourteenth 
Street  Theatre,  New  York.  In  1892  he  was  a  member  of  Hoyt's 
Madison  Square  Theatre  company,  with  which  he  played  in 
"The  Charms  of  Music,"  "That  Cowboy,"  "A  Modest  Model,"  and 
"A  Mere  Pretence."  In  December,  1884,  he  joined  the  Empire 
Theatre  company,  remaining  with  it  three  years,  during  which 


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146  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

time  he  played  in  "The  Masqueraders,"  "John  a-Dreams,"  "Mar 
riage,"  "Under  the  Red  Robe,"  "A  Man  and  His  Wife,"  and  "The 
Little  Minister."  Mr.  Edeson  played  in  "Thoroughbred"  at  the 
Garrick,  New  York,  the  spring  of  1897.  His  next  prominent 
engagement  was  as  Captain  Carew  in  "His  Excellency  the  Gov 
ernor"  at  the  Lyceum,  New  York,  May  1,  1899,  and  as  David 
Brandon  in  "The  Children  of  the  Ghetto"  at  the  Herald  Square 
Theatre  the  following  November.  He  played  the  same  part  a 
month  later  at  the  Adelphi  Theatre,  London.  During  1900  he 
was  seen  in  "The  Greatest  Thing  in  the  World,"  and  "The  Mo 
ment  of  Death,"  at  Wallack's,  New  York.  After  an  engagement 
with  Miss  Amelia  Bingham  in  "The  Climbers"  Mr.  Edeson  be 
came  a  star  in  the  dramatization  of  Richard  Harding  Davis's 
"Soldiers  of  Fortune"  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York,  March, 
1902.  He  afterward  starred  in  "The  Rector's  Garden,"  "Ran- 
son's  Folly,"  and  "Strongheart,"  which  latter  he  played  in  Lon 
don  the  spring  season  of  1907.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  starred 
in  "Classmates,"  opening  at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New  York, 
August  29,  1907,  appearing  in  a  special  performance  of  "The 
Sinner"  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  January  2,  1908. 

EDISS,  Miss  Connie: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Brighton,  England,  August  11,  1877, 
and  was  educated  there  and  in  Edinburgh.  She  made  her  first 
appearance  in  the  English  music  halls  under  the  name  of  Con 
nie  Coutts,  and  was  "discovered"  by  Ted  Marks  while  singing 
at  the  Oxford,  London.  She  made  her  first  appearance  on  the 
regular  stage  at  the  Gaiety,  London,  playing  Ada  Smith  in 
"The  Shopgirl"  in  1895.  She  then  played  the  same  part  on  a 
tour  through  this  country.  Returning  to  England,  she  played 
the  Lady  Mayoress  in  "My  Girl"  at  the  Gaiety,  making  a  big 
success  in  the  song,  "The  New  Bully."  At  the  same  theatre, 
during  a  twelve  years'  engagement,  she  played  Mrs.  Drivelli  in 
"The  Circus  Girl,"  Carmenita  in  "The  Runaway  Girl,"  Mrs. 
Bang  in  "The  Messenger  Boy,"  Mrs.  Malton  Hoppings  in  "The 
Toreador,"  Caroline  Vokins  in  "The  Orchid,"  the  leading  part 
in  "The  Spring  Chicken,"  and  the  Spirit  of  the  Ring  in  "The 
New  Aladdin."  She  also  played  an  intermediate  engagement  at 
the  Lyric  Theatre,  London,  as  Miss  Dimper  in  "The  Silver  Slip 
per."  Early  in  1907  Miss  Ediss  took  a  trip  to  South  Africa  for 
the  benefit  of  her  health,  and  while  there  played  engagements 
in  vaudeville  in  Cape  Town  and  Johannesburg.  The  season  of 
1907-8  she  appeared  as  Mrs.  Schniff  in  "The  Girl  Behind  the 
Counter"  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York.  The  favor 
ite  pastimes  of  Miss  Ediss  are  tennis  and  cricket  playing,  paint- 


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148  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

ing,    motoring    and    growing   vegetables.      Her    home    is   at    103 
West  Seventy-seventh  street,  New  York. 

EBERLE,  Eugene  A.: 

Actor,  was  born  April  7,  1840;  is  an  actor  by  inheritance, 
as  his  grandfather,  Adam  Eberle,  was  an  actor,  and  his  father, 
Charles  Eberle,  and  Edwin  Forrest  made  their  professional  de 
buts  together  in  a  circus,  Eberle  playing  cornet  and  Forrest  do 
ing  flip-flaps.  Eugene  was  carried  on  the  stage  when  he  was 
four  months  old  at  Bangor,  Me.  Twenty  years  afterward  he 
made  his  debut  in  the  same  city,  playing  Paris  in  "Romeo  and 
Juliet."  After  a  season  in  an  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"  company, 
which  was  transformed  into  a  minstrel  show,  Mr.  Eberle  sup 
ported  Charlotte  Cushman,  playing  the  Apothecary  in  "Romeo 
and  Juliet,"  and  the  Surveyor  in  "Henry  VIII."  He  then  went 
to  New  York  to  play  at  the  Winter  Garden  under  W.  M.  Flem 
ing  at  a  salary  of  six  dollars  a  week,  which  he  never  got.  Mag 
gie  Mitchell  followed  Fleming,  and  Mr.  Eberle  became  second 
low  comedian  at  the  Winter  Garden  under  Stuart,  Booth  and 
Clark.  He  remained  there  four  years,  eventually  becoming 
first  comedian.  He  played  in  the  hundred  nights'  run  of  "Ham 
let,"  in  which  Edwin  Booth  was  the  Dane  and  Charles  Kemble 
Mason  the  Ghost.  Eberle  first  played  Second  Gravedigger  and 
about  the  middle  of  the  run  succeeded  Thomas  Placide  as  First 
Gravedigger.  He  played  with  the  Booth  brothers  in  "Julius 
Caesar"  the  night  in  1863  when  Southern  sympathizers  tried  to 
burn  New  York.  Edwin  Booth  was  the  Brutus;  Junius  Brutus 
Booth,  Jr.,  the  Cassius,  and  John  Wilkes  the  Marc  Antony. 
Just  as  John  Wilkes  began  the  funeral  oration  the  fire  depart 
ment  broke  in  in  time  to  prevent  the  firing  of  the  theatre.  After 
many  engagements  in  support  of  stars  and  in  stock  companies, 
including  those  at  the  Leland  Opera  House,  Albany,  and  the 
Boston  Theatre,  Mr.  Eberle  joined  the  Joseph  Jefferson  com 
pany,  playing  Tackleton  in  "The  Cricket  on  the  Hearth,"  and 
Cockles  in  "Rip  Van  Winkle"  in  the  season  of  1885-6.  The  next 
year  he  supported  Madame  Janauschek,  playing  Dominie  Samp 
son  in  "Meg  Merrilies,"  which  he  had  previously  played  with 
Charlotte  Cushman.  Then  came  three  seasons  with  "The  Still 
Alarm."  In  1890-1  he  was  with  A.  M.  Palmer's  "Aunt  Jack" 
company.  Since  then  he  has  played  in  "Colonel  Carter  of  Car- 
tersville,"  "Across  the  Potomac,"  "Shiloh,"  etc.,  and  he  has  sup 
ported  Robert  Mantell  and  Margaret  Mather.  He  played  four 
seasons  with  Otis  Skinner  and  two  with  Annie  Russell,  playing 
Pete  in  "Mice  and  Men,"  and  old  Parling  in  "The  Younger  Miss 
Parling."  He  then  played  another  season  with  Skinner,  and 


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the  seasons  of  1906-7-8  was  seen  as  Senator  Roberts  in  the 
original  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse"  company,  opening  at  the 
Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York.  His  permanent  address  is  Box  32, 
Chatham,  N.  Y. 

EDWARDES,  George: 

Manager,  was  born  in  Dublin  in  1852  and  was  intended  for 
the  army,  but  while  "cramming"  he  was  asked  by  his  uncle,  the 
late  Michael  Gunn,  a  Dublin  theatrical  manager,  to  look  after 
his  company,  which  was  touring  in  "The  Lady  of  Lyons."  This 
glimpse  of  management  decided  him  to  join  the  profession.  He 
went  to  London  with  introductions  from  Gunn  and  was  engaged 
by  D'Oyley  Carte  as  business  manager  of  the  Opera  Comique, 
and  afterward  of  the  Savoy.  He  continued  so  until  1882,  when 
he  formed  a  syndicate  and  leased  the  Gaiety  Theatre  from  the 
late  John  Hollingshead,  becoming  its  sole  manager.  He  pro 
duced  "Jack  Sheppard,"  the  first  of  a  long  series  of  Gaiety  suc 
cesses.  "Monte  Cristo,"  "Esmeralda,"  "Ruy  Bias,"  and  "Carmen- 
Up-To-Date"  followed.  Mr.  Edwardes  was  the  originator  of  that 
class  of  entertainment  known  as  "musical  comedies,"  the  first 
big  successes  in  this  line  being  "The  Shop  Girl,"  "A  Gaiety  Girl," 
and  "A  Runaway  Girl."  He  became  lessee  of  Daly's  Theatre, 
London,  after  Augustin  Daly's  death,  and  there  produced  a  suc 
cession  of  musical  comedies,  including  "An  Artist's  Model," 
"Florodora,"  "The  Geisha,"  "San  Toy"  and  many  others  equally 
popular.  These  and  the  Gaiety  plays  were  toured  all  over  Eng 
land  and  the  United  States.  Mr.  Edwardes  has  managed  or 
been  interested  in  many  other  theatres,  either  alone  or  in  part 
nership  with  Charles  Frohman,  Frank  Curzon  and  other  well- 
known  managers.  Practically  all  the  pieces  which  he  has  pro 
duced  have  been  seen  in  the  United  States,  South  Africa  and: 
Australasia.  He  is  the  busiest  and  most  experienced  theatrical 
manager  in  London  at  the  present  time,  if  not  in  the  entire- 
world.  His  chief  recreation  is  horse  racing,  and  he  owns  a  fine- 
stable  which  is  under  the  control  of  his  brother,  Major  Ed 
wardes.  Mr.  Edwardes  married  in  1885  Julia  Gwynn,  an  ac 
tress,  who  created  many  parts  in  the  early  operas  of  Gilbert 
and  Sullivan  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  London. 

EDWARDES,  Miss  Paula: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  and  educated  at  the 
Convent  of  the  Sacred  Heart  in  Philadelphia.  Her  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  was  made  in  the  chorus  of  Thomas  Q.  Sea- 
brooke's  production  of  "Tobasco,"  and  on  March  1,  1897,  opened 
at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Mariolle  in  "La  Falote.'* 


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In  September  of  the  same  year  she  appeared  as  Mamie  in  "The 
Belle  of  New  York,"  and  went  with  that  piece  to  London  in 
1898,  playing  at  the  Shaftesbury  Theatre.  She  returned  to  New 
York  soon  after,  and  was  engaged  for  the  Augustin  Daly  com 
pany,  appearing  as  Carmenita  in  "A  Runaway  Girl"  at  Daly's 
Theatre  August  25,  1898.  While  a  member  of  that  organization 
she  played  the  role  of  Louisa  Jupp  in  "The  Great  Ruby,"  and  in 
May,  1902,  appeared  in  "The  Show  Girl"  at  Wallack's  Theatre, 
New  York.  Two  months  later  she  joined  "The  Defender"  at  the 
Herald  Square  Theatre,  and  in  1903  became  a  star,  appearing 
as  Winnie  Walker  in  "Winsome  Winnie."  The  seasons  of  1905- 
6-7  she  starred  in  "The  Princess  Beggar." 

EDWARDS,  Fred: 

Actor  and  stage  manager,  was  born  in  Manchester,  England, 
August  21,  1860,  and  before  entering  the  theatrical  profession 
was  an  artist.  In  1882  he  joined  the  Royal  English  Opera  Com 
pany,  of  which  his  brother,  Julian  Edwards,  the  well-known  com 
poser,  was  at  that  time  the  musical  director,  and  he  appeared  in 
several  second  baritone  parts,  such  as  Valentine  in  "Musette," 
the  Marquis  in  "Maritana,"  and  Alessio  in  "La  Sonnambula."  He 
started  his  career  as  stage  manager  in  Hull,  England,  in  1884, 
and  afterward  was  at  Covent  Garden,  London,  in  that  capacity. 
He  then  joined  the  "Falka"  company,  appearing  as  Tancred  in 
that  opera.  He  produced  "Pepita"  at  Liverpool  in  1887,  and  at 
Toole's  Theatre  in  London  in  1889.  He  came  to  this  country  in 
1892  and  acted  as  stage  manager  to  the  companies  of  Annie 
Pixley,  David  Henderson,  the  late  E.  J.  Henley,  Henry  E.  Dixey 
and  Catherine  Clemmons.  He  made  a  long  tour  with  Albert 
Chevalier,  returning  to  England  with  him  to  produce  "The  Land 
of  Nod."  In  1904  he  returned  to  this  country  and  has  since 
been  stage  manager  with  Harrison  Grey  Fiske,  F.  C.  Whitney 
and  with  "The  Girl  and  the  Governor"  company.  His  home  is 
at  14  Fairfield  road,  Ludlow  Park,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

EDWARDS,  Julian: 

Composer,  was  born  in  Manchester,  England,  December  17, 
1855.  He  came  from  a  well-known  Scottish  musical  family,  and 
his  sisters,  Fanny  (Mrs.  Harry  Clifton)  and  Annie  (Mrs.  Red- 
fern  Hollins),  were  well  known  on  the  English  operatic  stage. 
His  early  days  were  spent  in  Edinburgh,  and  he  first  studied 
music  at  the  University  there  under  Sir  Herbert  Oakeley.  For 
some  years  Mr.  Edwards  was  associated  with  the  Carl  Rosa 
Opera  Company,  and  in  1880  he  became  conductor  of  the  Royal 
English  Opera  Company,  a  place  he  occupied  for  six  or  seven 


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years.  The  first  important  work  from  his  pen  was  "Victorian," 
a  grand  opera  in  four  acts,  the  book  of  which  was  founded  on 
Longfellow's  poem,  "The  Spanish  Student."  This  was  produced 
at  Sheffield,  England,  March  6,  1883,  and  afterward  played  at 
Covent  Garden  Theatre,  London.  Mr.  Edwards  came  to  this 
country  in  1888  and  became  musical  director  for  many  light 
opera  companies.  While  associated  with  the  Digby  Bell  com 
pany  his  first  light  opera,  "Jupiter,"  book  by  Harry  B.  Smith, 
was  produced  April  14,  1892,  in  Washington,  D.  C.  It  had  a 
run  of  three  hundred  nights.  At  Herrmann's  Theatre,  New 
York,  on  January  20,  1893,  the  first  joint  production  of  Stan 
islaus  Stange  and  Julian  Edwards  was  produced  by  the  Manola- 
Mason  company.  It  was  a  musical  comedy,  "Friend  Fritz," 
founded  on  the  Erckman-Chatrain  romance.  Mr.  Edwards's  next 
and  most  ambitious  production  in  this  country  was  a  grand 
opera  in  miniature,  "King  Rene's  Daughter,"  first  played  at 
Herrmann's  Theatre,  New  York,  November  22,  1893.  "Made 
leine;  or,  The  Magic  Kiss,"  by  Stange  and  Edwards,  was  pro 
duced  at  the  Tremont  Theatre,  Boston,  July  31,  1894,  and  after 
ward  ran  three  months  at  the  Bijou  Theatre,  New  York.  "The 
Goddess  of  Truth,"  written  for  Lillian  Russell,  was  produced 
at  Abbey's  Theatre,  New  York,  in  February,  1896,  and  on  Octo 
ber  18  of  the  same  year  "Brian  Boru,"  produced  at  the  Broad 
way  Theatre,  New  York,  met  with  marked  success.  Later  operas 
composed  by  Mr.  Edwards  have  been:  "The  Wedding  Day,"  in 
which  Lillian  Russell,  Delia  Fox  and  Jefferson  De  Angelis  ap 
peared  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York;  "Dolly  Varden,"  writ 
ten  for  Lulu  Glaser;  "When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home," 
"Princess  Chic,"  "The  Jolly  Musketeer,"  "Love's  Lottery,"  and 
"The  Girl  and  the  Governor."  Mr.  Edwards  is  also  the  com 
poser  of  the  grand  operas  "Elfinella"  and  "Corinne,"  as  yet  not 
produced.  Also  the  cantatas  "The  Redeemer"  and  "The  Mer 
maid."  Mr.  Edwards  married  in  New  York  January  9,  1889, 
Philippine  Siedle,  a  well-known  English  prima  donna.  He  is  a 
member  of  The  Players,  The  Lambs  and  the  Lotos  clubs  and 
the  Manuscript  Society,  New  York.  His  home  is  at  Sunnyside 
Drive,  Ludlow,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

ELEN,  Gus  (Ernest  Augustus  Elen) : 

Comedian,  was  born  in  London  July  22,  1862,  and  began 
life  in  the  Army  Clothing  Stores,  subsequently  becoming  a  seller 
of  programmes  at  the  Royal  Aquarium,  and  was  also  a  bar 
tender.  He  first  sang  in  the  back  rooms  of  East  End  saloons 
in  London  and  with  minstrel  troupes  on  the  beaches  of  sea 
shore  resorts.  From  there  he  drifted  into  fifth-rate  music  halls 


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in  the  suburbs  of  London,  doing  character  and  black-face  acts. 
He  first  obtained  recognition  as  a  singer  of  coster  songs,  and 
quickly  became  famous  at  all  the  big  music  halls  of  England. 
Some  of  his  most  popular  songs  are:  "Never  Introduce  Your 
Donah  to  a  Pal,"  "Down  the  Road,"  "  'E  Donno  Where  'E  Are," 
and  "It's  a  Great  Big  Shame."  He  made  his  first  appearance 
in  this  country  in  vaudeville  at  the  New  York  Theatre  under 
the  management  of  Klaw  and  Erlanger  the  fall  of  1907.  His 
home  is  at  Edith  Villa,  Thurleigh  road,  Balham,  London. 

EGAN,  Jefferson: 

Actor  and  grand  opera  tenor,  was  born  in  St.  Paul,  Minn., 
being  the  son  of  Patrick  Egan,  a  well-known  politician.  He 
made  his  first  stage  appearance  with  Lawrence  Barrett  as  a 
choir  boy  in  "Rienzi"  when  only  ten  years  old.  He  was  edu 
cated  at  the  University  of  Minnesota  and  at  the  Eastern  College, 
and  acquired  the  profession  of  dentistry  at  the  Philadelphia 
Dental  College.  He  practised  hik  profession  in  New  York,  only 
singing  as  an  amateur  until  1902  when  he  became  leading  tenor 
with  the  Boston  Ideal  Opera  Company.  In  the  fall  of  the  same 
year  ne  played  the  part  of  Lord  Grasmere  in  "A  Country  Girl" 
at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York.  After  much  concert  and  oratorio 
work  Mr.  Egan  went  into  vaudeville,  starring  in  a  one-act  ope 
retta  the  season  of  1905-6.  He  had  completed  arrangements  to 
star  in  an  Irish  drama  with  songs  when  he  accepted  an  engage 
ment  to  sing  leading  tenor  roles  with  the  National  Opera  Com 
pany  in  Italy,  opening  at  the  Teatro  Nazionale,  Rome,  in  Oc 
tober,  1907.  The  previous  season  he  was  heard  in  concerts  in 
this  country  in  company  with  Signer  Ettora  Mampana,  the 
famous  baritone;  Mario  Summarco  and  Mme.  De  Cisneros.  Mr. 
Egan  is  a  member  of  the  Psi  Omega  Greek  letter  fraternity, 
the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  many  Irish  societies,  among  which 
he  is  prominent  as  an  Irish  ballad  singer.  In  October,  1906, 
Mr.  Egan  married  Miss  Lilian  Britton,  of  New  York,  a  grand 
opera  soprano.  His  favorite  pastimes  are  polo  and  cross-country 
riding.  His  address  is  Teatro  Nazionale,  Rome,  Italy. 

ELLIOTT,  Miss  Gertrude  (Mrs.  Johnston  Forbes-Robertson) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Rockland,  Me.,  her  father  being  Thomas 
Dermot,  a  sea  captain,  of  Oakland,  Cal.,  and  her  sister  Miss 
Maxine  Elliott  (Mrs.  Nat  C.  Goodwin).  Miss  Gertrude  made 
her  first  appearance  in  Miss  Rose  Coghlan's  company  in  1894  as 
Lady  Stutfield  in  "A  Woman  of  No  Importance."  The  same  year 
she  played  Pert  in  "London  Assurance,"  and  Mion  in  "Diplo 
macy."  In  1895  she  was  with  Miss  Marie  Wainwright's  com- 


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pany,  and  two  years  later  appeared  with  Nat  Goodwin  in  "The 
Nominee,"  "In  Missouri,"  "The  Rivals,"  "A  Gilded  Fool,"  and 
"An  American  Citizen."  She  remained  with  Mr.  Goodwin's  com 
pany  two  years,  making  pronounced  successes  as  Madge  in  "The 
Cowboy  and  the  Lady,"  and  Angelica  Knowlton  in  "Nathan 
Hale."  She  went  to  London  in  1899,  opening  at  the  Court  Thea 
tre  as  Princess  Angela  in  "A  Royal  Family."  In  September, 
1900,  Miss  Elliott  joined  the  company  of  Forbes-Robertson, 
playing  Ophelia  to  his  Hamlet.  She  was  married  to  Mr.  Rob 
ertson  December  22,  1900,  and  has  since  been  leading  woman 
in  his  company.  With  her  husband  she  returned  to  this  coun 
try  in  1903,  opening  in  "The  Light  That  Failed"  at  the  Knick 
erbocker  Theatre,  New  York,  November  9.  The  season  of  1906-7 
she  again  visited  the  United  States,  opening  at  the  New  Amster 
dam  Theatre,  New  York,  October  29,  1906,  as  Cleopatra  in 
"Caesar  and  Cleopatra,"  by  G.  Bernard  Shaw.  Miss  Elliott's 
home  is  at  22  Bedford  square,  London,  W.  C. 

ELLIOTT,  Miss  Maxine  (Mrs.  Nathaniel  C.  Goodwin) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Rockland,  Me.,  February  5,  1873,  and 
spent  much  of  her  childhood  on  a  large  sailing  ship,  of  which 
her  father,  Thomas  Dermot,  of  Oakland,  Cal.,  was  captain.  Sub 
sequently  she  spent  about  a  year  at  the  convent  of  Notre  Dame, 
Roxbury,  Mass.,  and  went  to  New  York  when  she  was  barely 
sixteen  years  old  to  begin  the  struggle  of  "carving  out  a  ca 
reer."  She  made  her  first  appearance  on  any  stage  in  the  part 
of  Felicia  Umphraville  in  "The  Middleman"  the  season  of 
1890-1  in  New  York  with  E.  S.  Willard  under  the  management 
of  A.  M.  Palmer.  She  also  played  Virginia  Fleetwood  in  "John 
Needham's  Double,"  Beatrice  Selwyn  in  "A  Fool's  Paradise," 
and  Lady  Gilding  in  "The  Professor's  Love  Story."  After  that 
she  joined  "The  Prodigal  Daughter"  company  at  the  American 
Theatre,  New  York,  and  remained  there  to  play  the  second  part 
in  "The  Voyage  of  Suzette,"  which  ran  only  two  or  three  weeks. 
She  then  joined  Rose  Coghlan's  company  and  played  Dora  in 
"Diplomacy,"  Grace  Harkaway  in  "London  Assurance,"  Alice 
Varney  in  "Forget-Me-Not,"  and  Mrs.  Allenby  in  "A  Woman  of 
No  Importance."  Augustin  Daly  then  engaged  her,  and  at  his 
theatre  she  appeared  in  the  title  role  of  "A  Heart  of  Ruby,"  in 
"The  Orient  Express,"  in  "A  Bundle  of  Lies,"  and  in  "A  Tragedy 
Rehearsal."  She  also  played  Silvia  in  "Two  Gentlemen  of  Ve 
rona,"  Hermia  in  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream,"  and  Olivia  in 
"Twelfth  Night."  In  1895  she  went  to  London  with  this  com 
pany,  where  her  beauty  attracted  great  attention.  After  a  sum 
mer  engagement  with  the  Daniel  Frawley  Stock  Company  in 


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San  Francisco  she  joined  Nat  Goodwin's  company  in  1896,  be 
coming  his  leading  woman.  In  that  year  she  obtained  a  divorce 
from  her  first  husband,  Geo.  A.  McDermott,  a  lawyer  and  mayor's 
marshal  under  Mayor  Grace  of  New  York.  She  was  married  to 
Mr.  Goodwin  February  20,  1898.  With  him  she  appeared  as 
Portia  in  "The  Merchant  of  Venice,"  Hermia  in  "A  Midsummer 
Night's  Dream,"  in  "An  American  Citizen,"  "The  Cowboy  and 
the  Lady,"  "When  We  Were  Twenty-one"  and  many  of  the 
other  plays  in  his  large  repertoire.  The  season  of  1903-4  she 
was  starred  by  Charles  B.  Dillingham  in  Clyde  Fitch's  play, 
"Her  Own  Way,"  and  in  1905-6  in  another  Fitch  play,  "Her 
Great  Match."  Miss  Elliott  spends  most  of  her  leisure  time 
abroad,  having  a  town  house  in  London.  The  season  of  1907-8 
Miss  Elliott  starred  in  London  and  in  this  country  in  "Under 
the  Greenwood  Tree." 

ELLISTON,  Miss  Grace: 

Actress,  was  born  in  West  Virginia  and  educated  in  Epis 
copal  schools.  When  she  was  seventeen  years  old  it  v/as  planned 
that  she  should  enter  a  convent,  but,  her  father  dying  suddenly, 
it  became  necessary  that  she  should  aid  the  family,  and  the 
stage  was  selected  as  a  medium.  She  made  her  first  appear 
ance  with  Daniel  Frohman's  company  in  "His  Excellency  the 
Governor."  She  was  then  in  "The  Tyranny  of  Tears"  and 
"Wheels  Within  Wheels."  Then  followed  three  summers  on  the 
Coast,  during  which  she  played  all  kinds  of  parts  with  Henry 
Miller's  company.  She  then  appeared  in  "The  Taming  of  Helen" 
at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York,  where  Richard  Mansfield  en 
gaged  her  for  his  leading  woman.  She  made  her  first  big  suc 
cess  with  him  in  "Alt  Heidelberg."  Miss  Elliston  then  played 
Olivia  in  "Twelfth  Night"  with  Viola  Allen,  and  then  became 
leading  woman  with  Nat  Goodwin.  Finally  she  played  her  best 
part,  that  of  Mildred  Gresham,  with  Sarah  Cowell  Lemoyne  in 
Robert  Browning's  drama,  "A  Blot  on  the  'Scutcheon."  The 
season  of  1905-6  Miss  Elliston  created  the  part  of  Shirley  Ross- 
more  in  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse"  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New 
York.  The  fall  of  1907  she  was  seen  in  "Dr.  Wake's  Patient" 
at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York. 

EMERY,  Edward: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England;  comes  from  one  of  the  most 
famous  families  in  the  annals  of  the  English  stage.  In  1780  his 
great-grandfather,  John  Emery,  was  a  well-known  actor  and  man 
ager  of  a  theatre  in  the  town  of  Sunderland.  His  son,  John  An- 


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derson  Emery,  was  a  most  popular  London  actor  in  the  last 
century,  and  Edward  Emery's  father,  the  late  Sam  Emery,  was 
the  creator,  on  the  English  stage,  of  many  of  the  characters  in 
Dickens's  plays,  such  as  Dan'l  Peggotty,  Cap'n  Cuttle,  and  John 
Browdie.  Edward  Emery's  sister,  Winifred  Emery,  the  wife  of 
Cyril  Maude,  the  well-known  London  actor-manager,  holds  with 
Ellen  Terry  the  first  place  in  the  hearts  of  English  playgoers. 
Edward  Emery  first  came  to  the  United  States  with  one  of  Sir 
Charles  Wyndham's  companies,  and  at  the  end  of  that  company's 
tour  in  this  country  joined  the  forces  of  the  late  A.  M.  Palmer. 
He  afterward  played  under  the  managements  of  Charles  Froh- 
man,  Liebler  &  Co.,  and  Klaw  &  Erlanger.  Early  in  1906  he 
became  a  member  of  Margaret  Anglin's  "Zira"  company,  play 
ing  the  part  of  Captain  Sylvester.  Characters  in  which  he  has 
achieved  prominence  have  been  Captain  Redwood  in  "Jim  the 
Penman,"  and  Lord  Robert  Ure  in  "The  Christian." 

ENGLANDER,  Ludwig: 

Composer,  was  born  in  Austria  and  emigrated  from  Vienna 
to  New  York  in  1882.  He  was  conductor  of  the  Thalia  Theatre 
when  Heinrich  Conried  was  director  of  it,  and  there  produced 
his  first  opera,  "The  Prince  Consort."  He  occupied  the  same 
place  at  Amberg's  German  Theatre,  where  his  opera  "1776"  was 
produced.  His  first  stage  score  for  the  English  stage  was  that 
for  "The  Passing  Show,"  produced  by  George  Lederer  at  the 
Casino,  New  York,  in  which  Jefferson  De  Angelis  played.  He 
followed  "The  Passing  Show"  with  "The  Twentieth  Century 
Girl."  Then  in  succession  followed  "A  Round  of  Pleasure"  for 
the  Rogers  Brothers,  "A  Daughter  of  the  Revolution"  for  Ca- 
mille  D'Arville,  "The  Caliph"  for  Jefferson  De  Angelis,  for  Fran 
cis  Wilson  "Half  a  King,"  "The  Little  Corporal,"  and  "The 
Monks  of  Malabar;  "The  Rounders"  for  Thomas*  Q.  Seabrooke, 
"In  Gay  Paree"  for  Mabelle  Gilman,  "The  Casino  Girl"  for  Vir 
ginia  Earle,  "The  Wild  Rose"  for  Irene  Bentley.  "Sally  in  Our 
Alley"  for  Marie  Cahill,  "The  Cadet  Girl"  for  Christie  MacDon- 
ald,  "The  Belle  of  Bohemia"  for  Sam  Bernard,  "The  Office  Boy" 
for  Frank  Daniels,  "A  Madcap  Princess"  for  Lulu  Glaser,  and 
"The  Two  Roses"  for  Fritzi  Scheff.  His  last  score  was  that  of 
"The  Gay  White  Way,"  produced  at  the  Casino  Theatre  the  fall 
of  1907.  In  all,  Mr.  Englander  has  written  the  music  for  thirty- 
five  operas.  He  is  also  well  known  as  a  writer  of  popular  songs, 
more  especially  in  collaboration  with  Harry  B.  Smith.  His 
home  is  at  351  West  One  Hundred  and  Forty-fourth  street,  New 
York. 


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ERSKINE,  Wallace: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England  and  became  well  known  there 
before  coming  to  this  country,  in  1899,  to  play  in  "A  Little  Ray 
of  Sunshine,"  an  English  comedy,  which  met  little  success.  Ob 
taining  an  engagement  with  Charles  Frohman  he  played  in 
"The  Surprises  of  Love"  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York.  The 
season  of  1900-1  he  played  in  "When  Hearts  Are  Trumps,"  and 
"To  Have  and  To  Hold,"  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  and  the 
following  season  was  with  Miss  Virginia  Harned,  playing  Uncle 
Jason  in  "Alice  of  Old  Viricennes."  The  season  of  1902-3  Mr. 
Erskine  was  with  William  Faversham  in  "Imprudence,"  after 
which  he  joined  the  Proctor  Stock  Company  at  the  Fifth  Ave 
nue  Theatre,  New  York.  He  was  also  seen  in  "The  Duke  of 
Killicrankie"  with  Miss  Rose  Coghlan.  The  season  of  1906-7  he 
played  the  Earl  of  Huntington  in  "The  Prince  Chap"  with  Cyril 
Scott. 

ESMOND,  Henry  V.  (Henry  V.  Jack) : 

Actor  and  playwright,  was  born  near  London,  England,  No 
vember  30,  1869.  He  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in 
a  provincial  company  in  1885,  and  was  first  seen  in  London  in 
"The  Panel  Picture"  at  the  Opera  Comique  in  1889,  afterward 
playing  character  parts  under  the  management  of  George  Alex 
ander.  He  began  writing  for  the  stage  in  1892,  his  first  play- 
being  "Rest."  Since  then  he  has  written  several  plays,  the  most 
successful  of  which  are  "One  Summer's  Day,"  produced  in  1897: 
"Grierson's  Way,"  1899;  "The  Wilderness,"  "When  We  Were 
Twenty-one,"  1901;  "My  Lady  Virtue,"  1902;  "Billy's  Little  Love 
Affair,"  1903,  and  "Under  the  Greenwood  Tree,"  1907. 

EUSTACE,  Miss  Jennie  A.: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  October  23,  1865,  and  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  in  Elmira.  Her  first  appearance 
was  made  at  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  in  1885  in  Clement  Scott's  drama, 
"The  Cape  Mail."  The  next  season  she  joined  A.  M.  Palmer's 
Stock  Company,  playing  Constance  Grey  in  "Our  Society,"  and 
then  appeared  as  Mrs.  Ralston  in  "Jim  the  Penman"  with  signal 
success.  In  1891  she  was  seen  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre, 
New  York,  in  "Esther  Sandraz,"  supporting  Amy  Roselle,  and 
then  as  Mildred  Page  in  "Alabama"  under  Mr.  Palmer's  man 
agement.  The  following  year  she  created  the  roles  of  Donna 
Ria  in  "The  King  of  Peru,"  and  Catherine  in  "The  Story  of  Ro 
din  the  Student,"  supporting  the  late  Richard  Mansfield  in  both. 
In  1896  Miss  Eustice  went  abroad  and  toured  the  English  prov 
inces  in  "Madame  San  Gene"  with  Henry  Irving.  Upon  her  re- 


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turn  to  America  she  appeared  with  John  Drew  in  "The  Liars," 
and  subsequently  in  "If  I  Were  King"  under  the  management 
of  Daniel  Frohman,  and  as  Queen  Getrude  to  the  Hamlet  of 
both  B.  H.  Sothern  and  Forbes  Robertson.  The  season  of  1905-6 
she  was  with  Digby  Bell  in  "The  Education  of  Mr.  Pipp,"  and 
that  of  1906-7  was  seen  as  Mrs.  McLane  in  "Boys  of  Company 
B."  The  season  of  1907-8  Miss  Eustace  played  Mrs.  Helen  Whip- 
pie  in  "The  Witching  Hour,"  by  Augustus  Thomas,  at  the 
Hackett  Theatre,  New  York.  Miss  Eustace's  favorite  recreation 
is  walking.  Her  home  is  in  Elmira,  N.  Y. 

EVANS,  Charles  E.: 

Manager  and  actor,  was  born  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  September 
6,  1856.  In  an  effort  to  pay  for  a  piano  bought  for  his  school 
a  series  of  entertainments  was  given  by  the  pupils,  and  Evans 
was  applauded  so  greatly  by  the  audiences  and  the  press  that 
he  decided  to  become  a  real  actor.  This  was  against  the  wishes 
of  his  parents,  and  he  ran  away  from  home.  He  first  appeared 
in  various  vaudeville  companies  with  James  Niles  in  humorous 
sketches.  In  1879  he  made  a  tour  across  the  continent  with 
Tony  Pastor.  Three  years  later  Mr.  Evans  was  associated  with 
Messrs.  Bryant,  Hoey  and  Niles  in  a  company  known  as  the 
Meteors.  The  French  Sisters,  who  afterward  became  the  wives 
of  Messrs.  Hoey  and  Evans,  were  members  of  this  organization. 
After  the  olio  the  company  presented  a  farce  called  "The  Book 
Agent,"  written  for  it  by  Frank  Dumont.  This  farce,  in  which 
Mr.  Evans  was  a  book  agent  and  Mr.  Hoey  a  tramp,  was  so- 
popular  that  they  decided  to  have  it  elaborated  into  a  farce- 
comedy.  Charles  Hoyt  was  engaged  to  do  this  work,  and  he 
produced  from  it  "A  Parlor  Match,"  which  was  presented  by 
Evans  and  Hoey  for  many  years.  The  partnership  of  the  two 
men  was  dissolved  with  the  last  performance  of  "A  Parlor 
Match"  in  New  York  in  1894.  Mr.  Evans  then  abandoned  his 
career  as  an  actor  and  became  a  manager.  He  purchased  the 
old  Park  Theatre  at  Broadway  and  Thirty-fifth  street,  New  York, 
rebuilt  and  refurnished  it  and  opened  it  as  a  theatre  for  the 
production  of  stars  and  new  plays.  He  managed  this  house  for 
several  years  under  its  new  name,  the  Herald  Square  Theatre. 
He  resigned  the  management  of  the  house  a  fe\v  years  ago  to- 
return  to  the  stage,  and  has  since  been  seen  chiefly  in  vaudeville. 

EVERTON,  Paul: 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  City  September  19,  1868,  and 
after  appearing  in  various  amateur  performances  made  his  pro 
fessional  debut  in  1888,  playing  the  role  of  Lord  Leslie  in  "The 


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Hermit"  with  C.  H.  Forman.  Later  he  joined  the  A.  Y.  Pearson 
Repertoire  Company,  and  finished  the  season  in  "Around  the 
World  in  Eighty  Days."  The  season  of  1889-90  he  appeared  in 
"Main  Line,"  and  with  Effie  Ellsler  in  repertoire.  Subsequently 
he  was  seen  in  "Buckeye,"  and  the  seasons  of  1891-2-3  supported 
Madame  Janauschek.  The  seasons  of  1893-4-5  he  appeared  with 
Kathryn  Kidder  in  "Madame  Sans  Gene"  on  tour.  The  season 
of  1904-5  he  was  with  Herbert  Kelcey  and  Effie  Shannon  in 
"Taps,"  and  in  "Captain  January"  with  Edna  Wallace  Hopper. 
The  season  of  1905-6  he  played  Prince  Assam  in  "The  School  for 
Husbands."  The  season  of  1907-8  he  played  John  Burkett  Ryder 
in  one  of  the  road  companies  of  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse." 

EVESSON,  Miss  Isabelle: 

Actress,  was  born  in  St.  Louis  in  1870.  She  was  fourteen 
years  old  when  she  decided  on  a  stage  career.  Her  mother  took 
her  to  Augustin  Daly  and  she  remained  in  his  company  two 
years,  playing  small  parts  and  understudying.  When  she  left 
Daly's  Theatre  she  played  a  short  engagement  with  Richard 
Mansfield,  and  then  at  Wallack's  Theatre  created  the  role  of 
Fuchsia  Leach  in  "Moths."  After  this  she  was  leading  woman 
•at  the  Boston  Museum  for  two  seasons.  Sir  Charles  Wyndhara 
saw  her  there  and  offered  her  a  prominent  part  at  his  London 
theatre.  Returning  to  the  United  States,  she  toured  as  Dearest 
in  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy."  While  playing  Rosa  Leigh  in 
"Rosedale"  she  met  and  married  a  companion  of  her  childhood, 
Almyr  Wilder  Cooper,  a  well-known  newspaper  man,  nephew  of 
Clark  Davis,  for  many  years  editor  of  the  Philadelphia  Times. 
In  less  than  two  years  Mr.  Cooper  was  killed  in  an  accident. 
His  widow  later  assumed  her  maiden  name,  accepted  an  engage 
ment  from  Charles  Frohman  and  returned  to  the  stage.  Miss 
Evesson  was  leading  woman  at  the  American  Theatre  when  it 
first  opened  with  a  stock  company.  She  played  two  successful 
seasons  with  the  Keith  Stock  Company  at  Providence,  R.  I. 
The  season  of  1904  she  was  starred  in  "In  the  Palace  of  the 
King,"  and  the  seasons  of  1905-6  was  leading  woman  at  Proctor's 
Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New  York.  Her  home  is  at  108  West 
Forty-fourth  street,  New  York. 

EYTINGE,  Miss  Rose  (Mrs.  Cyril  Searle) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  November  21,  1835.  She 
was  educated  there  and  in  Brooklyn,  where  she  acted  as  an 
.amateur.  Her  first  professional  appearance  was  as  Melanie  in 
Dion  Boucicault's  one-act  drama,  "The  Old  Guard/'  at  the  Green 
Street  Theatre,  Albany,  N.  Y.,  with  Hough's  Dramatic  Company 


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in  1852.  After  ten  years  in  stock  companies  she  made  her  first 
appearance  in  New  York  at  Niblo's  Garden  with  Edwin  Booth 
in  "A  Fool's  Revenge"  in  1862,  and  then  went  to  Boston,  open 
ing  at  the  Boston  Theatre  with  E.  L.  Davenport  and  J.  W.  Wai- 
lack.  In  1868  she  was  leading  woman  in  Lester  Wallack's  com 
pany,  playing  Nancy  Sykes  and  Lady  Gay  Spanker  with  pro 
nounced  success  at  the  old  Star  Theatre,  New  York.  She  left 
Wallack's  management  to  go  abroad,  and  after  some  years  re 
turned  to  the  stage,  appearing  again  in  New  York  in  "The  Heart 
of  Midlothian."  She  was  next  engaged  by  Augustin  Daly  for  the 
heroine  in  the  dramatization  of  Charles  Reade's  novel,  "Griffith 
Gaunt."  Again  she  went  abroad  and  in  1872  returned,  appear 
ing  under  the  management  of  A.  M.  Palmer  at  the  Union  Square 
Theatre,  New  York,  creating  in  this  country  the  parts  of  Rose 
Michel,  Felicia  and  Gervaise  in  "Drink."  For  several  seasons 
she  was  under  Mrs.  John  Drew's  management  at  the  Arch  Street 
Theatre,  Philadelphia,  and  later  went  to  the  California  Theatre, 
San  Francisco.  In  1880  Miss  Eytinge  made  her  third  trip  to 
London  and  supported  Barry  Sullivan  and  many  other  English 
stars.  She  returned  to  this  country  in  1884  and  played  numer 
ous  engagements.  Of  late  years  her  appearances  have  been  in 
frequent,  and  she  has  devoted  her  time  chiefly  to  teaching  the 
art  of  acting  and  to  writing  for  the  magazines.  She  is  the 
author  of  a  novel,  "It  Happened  This  Way,"  and  a  play,  "Golden. 
Chains."  She  appeared  for  a  short  time  in  "The  Bishop's  Car 
riage"  during  the  season  of  1906-7,  but,  owing  to  ill  health,  was 
forced  to  retire  from  the  cast.  Miss  Eytinge  has  been  married 
thrice:  first  to  David  Barnes,  next  to  George  H.  Butler,  United 
States  Consul-General  to  Egypt,  and  thirdly  to  Cyril  Searle,  an 
actor.  Her  home  is  at  the  Westminster  Hotel,  Irving  place, 
New  York. 

FARKOA,  Maurice: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Smyrna,  Egypt,  April  23,  1864,  and  made 
his  first  appearance  at  Daly's  London  Theatre  in  "An  Artist's 
Model"  in  1895.  For  ten  years  he  was  associated  with  the  pro 
ductions  of  George  Edwardes  in  London,  and  in  1906  he  was 
engaged  by  Joseph  Weber  to  appear  at  his  theatre  in  New  York 
as  Henri  D'Absinthe  in  "Dream  City,"  and  as  Lohengin  in  "The 
Magic  Knight,"  opening  December  25,  which  parts  he  played  the 
balance  of  the  season. 

FARNUM,  Dustin: 

Actor,  was  born  at  Hampton  Beach,  N.  H.,  in  1876,  his 
parents  being  G.  D.  and  Clara  Adele  Farnum.  He  has  two 


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brothers,  William  and  Marshall  Farnum,  who  are  also  players. 
He  began  his  stage  career  with  his  brother  William  while  they 
were  still  attending  school  at  Locksport,  Me.,  appearing  during 
the  summer  months  in  a  singing  specialty  with  a  company  of 
Thomas  E.  Shea  and  in  a  singing  and  dancing  specialty  with 
the  "Hidden  Hand"  company.  His  first  professional  engage 
ment  was  with  the  Ethel  Tucker  Repertoire  Company,  with 
which  he  toured  the  New  England  States.  A  season  in  stock 
at  Buffalo  followed.  In  1899  he  played  his  first  important  role 
and  first  attracted  attention  as  Lieutenant  Denton  in  Augustus 
Thomas's  'Arizona"  under  the  management  of  the  late  Kirke 
La  Shelle.  He  made  the  greatest  success  of  his  career  as  the 
Virginian,  in  the  dramatization  of  Owen  Wister's  novel  of  that 
name  by  Mr.  Wister  and  the  late  Kirke  La  Shelle,  which  opened 
in  September,  1903,  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York,  and 
ran  for  three  seasons.  The  season  of  1907-8  Mr.  Farnum  starred 
in  "The  Ranger,"  by  Augustus  Thomas.  He  is  an  enthusiastic 
baseball  "fan,"  and  fond  of  yachting  and  automobiling. 

FARRELL,    John  J.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Bangor,  Me.,  and  was  graduated  from 
the  High  School  there  in  1884.  He  immediately  entered  the 
theatrical  profession,  beginning  at  the  bottom  of  the  ladder. 
Eventually  obtaining  an  engagement  from  Charles  Frohnian,  he 
remained  under  his  management  for  seven  years,  playing  during 
that  time  the  War  Correspondent  in  "Held  by  the  Enemy"  for 
five  consecutive  seasons.  Then  followed  two  seasons  with  Stuart 
Robson,  Mr.  Farrell  appearing  as  Antipholus  of  Ephesus  in  "The 
Comedy  of  Errors."  He  was  next  under  the  management  of 
Davis  &  Keogh,  playing  leading  parts  in  their  melodramas. 
After  special  engagements  with  Nat  Goodwin,  and  Jacob  Litt, 
Mr.  Farrell  decided  to  devote  himself  to  stock  work,  which  he 
has  since  done  chiefly  in  New  Orleans,  Chicago  and  Philadel 
phia. 

FAUST,  Miss  Lotta  (Mrs.  Richie  Ling)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  February  8,  1880,  and 
was  educated  at  the  public  schools  there.  Before  going  on  the 
stage  she  was  a  cash  girl  in  the  dry  goods  store  of  Abraham  & 
Straus,  Brooklyn.  She  made  her  first  appearance  when  she  was 
sixteen  years  old  in  Denman  Thompson's  "Sunshine  of  Paradise 
Alley."  Her  next  engagement  was  in  the  chorus  of  "Jack  and 
the  Beanstalk,"  followed  by  a  thinking  part  in  "The  Man  in  the 
Moon."  Her  first  speaking  part  was  that  of  the  Duke  of  Buck 
ingham  in  "My  Lady."  The  following  seasons  she  was  in  "Lib- 


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erty  Belles,"  and  "The  Defender."  She  made  her  first  promi 
nent  success  in  "The  Wizard  of  Oz,"  her  singing  of  the  song 
"Sammy"  being  a  notable  feature.  Since  then  she  has  been 
seen  in  "Wonderland"  with  Joseph  Weber's  company,  and  in 
"The  White  Hen."  She  has  also  done  a  singing  specialty  in 
vaudeville  houses.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  with  Lew 
Fields  in  "The  Girl  Behind  the  Counter."  Miss  Faust  was  mar 
ried  to  Richie  Ling,  the  light  opera  tenor,  in  1903.  Her  favorite 
pastimes  are  motoring,  fishing  and  horse  racing.  Her  perma 
nent  address  is  the  St.  James  Hotel,  New  York  City. 

FAVERSKAM,  William  Alfred: 

Actor,  was  born  at  1  Bentic  terrace,  St.  John's  Wood,  Lon 
don,  England,  February  12,  1868.  He  was  the  youngest  of  thir 
teen  children.  He  had  been  on  the  English  stage  only  a  few 
months,  when  he  came  to  New  York  in  1887  to  support  Helen 
Hastings  at  the  Union  Square  Theatre.  He  afterward  joined 
the  Lyceum  company,  appearing  as  Robert  Grey  in  "The  Wife," 
and  in  "The  Highest  Bidder."  Tiring  of  the  stage,  he  returned 
to  England,  but  came  back  to  America  at  the  end  of  1888  and 
played  Leo  in  Rider  Haggard's  "She."  With  Mrs.  Minnie  Mad- 
dern  Fiske,  Mr.  Faversham  played  Carrol  Glendenning  in  "In 
Spite  of  All,"  Jacob  Henderson  in  "Caprice,"  Helmer  in  "A 
Doll's  House,"  and  Valentine  and  Don  Stephano  in  "Feather 
brain."  Returning  to  the  Lyceum  company,  he  appeared  as 
Clement  Hale  in  "Sweet  Lavender,"  Lord  Seymour  in  "The 
Pr'nce  and  the  Pauper,"  and  Alfred  Hastings  in  "All  the  Com 
forts  of  Home."  After  a  season  with  Augustus  Pitou  Mr.  Faver 
sham  went  !  o  the  Empire  Theatre,  New  York,  and  played  sec 
ond  parts.  The  end  of  the  second  year  he  succeeded  Henry  Mil 
ler  as  leading  man,  making  his  first  appearance  in  that  capacity 
as  G:l  tie  Berault  in  "Under  the  Red  Robe,"  which  ran  the  en 
tire  season.  The  following  year  he  was  the  Eric  von  Rodeck 
of  "The  Conqueror"  and  the  Lord  Algy  of  "Lord  and  Lady 
Algy."  Other  parts  played  with  the  Empire  company  were  Lieu 
tenant  John  Hinds  in  "Brother  Officers,"  Jack  Martin  in  "My 
Lady's  Lord,"  and  Roger  Ainslie  in  "A  Man  and  His  Wife."  He 
also  played  in  "Sowing  the  Wind,"  "Don  Caesar,"  "Phroso,"  "John 
a-Dreams,"  "Imprudence,"  and  "Letty";  and  was  the  Romeo  to 
the  Juliet  of  Maude  Adams.  In  March,  1902,  Mrs.  Marian  Faver 
sham,  who  was  a  widow  when  she  was  married  to  the  actor  ten 
years  before,  obtained  an  absolute  divorce.  The  same  year  Mr. 
Faversham  married  Julie  Opp,  an  actress.  They  have  one  son, 
William  Crozier  Faversham,  born  October  31,  1905.  The  sea 
sons  of  1906-7-8  Mr.  Faversham  was  seen  as  Jim  Carson  in  "The 


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Squaw  Man,"  by  Edwin  Milton  Royle,  which  was  produced  at 
Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  under  the  management  of  Liebler 
&  Co.  Mr.  Faversham  is  one  of  the  biggest  breeders  of  bull  ter 
riers  in  America.  He  has  a  farm  in  the  south  of  England, 
where  he  has  imported  the  American  trotting  horse,  the  breed 
ing  of  which  ho  has  found  profitable. 

FEALY,  Miss  Maude  (Mrs.  Louis  E.  Sherwin)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  March  4,  1886.  Her 
mother,  Margaret  Fealy,  was  on  the  stage  for  eighteen  years, 
and  now  conducts  the  Tabor  School  of  Acting  at  Denver,  Colo. 
Miss  Fealy  first  appeared  on  the  stage  at  the  age  of  four  in  the 
tableau  of  "Faust  and  Marguerite,"  her  mother  playing  Mar 
guerite.  As  a  pupil  of  her  mother's  school  Miss  Fealy  appeared 
in  public  as  Vera  in  "Moths,"  Juliet  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet,'' 
Galatea  in  "Pygmalion  and  Galatea,"  Louise  in  "The  Two  Or 
phans,"  in  "Sweet  Lavender,"  and  as  Kathleen  in  "Mavourneen."' 
Sh-3  was  fourteen  years  old  when  Augustin  Daly  saw  her  play 
Juliet,  and  was  so  impressed  that  he  engaged  her  for  five  years. 
Mr.  Daly's  death  canceled  this  contract,  and  Miss  Fealy  was  en 
gaged  for  Eunice  in  "Quo  Vadis,"  by  F.  C.  Whitney,  under 
whose  direction  she  made  her  first  appearance  in  New  York. 
This  led  to  her  engagement  as  leading  woman  by  William  Gil 
lette.  Miss  Fealy,  who  at  that  time  was  sixteen  years  old,  re 
mained  with  Mr.  Gillette  for  two  seasons,  playing  in  this  coun 
try  and  in  England  the  role  of  Alice  Faulkner  in  "Sherlock 
Holmes."  Her  work  in  England  attracted  E.  S.  Willard,  with 
whom  she  played  Lucy  in  "The  Professor's  Love  Story,"  Mary 
in  "The  Middleman,"  Ada  in  "David  Garrick,"  and  Filaberta  in 
"The  Cardinal."  Following  this  engagement  Miss  Fealy  sup 
ported  Orrin  Johnson  as  a  co-star  in  "Hearts  Courageous"  at 
the  Broadway  Theatre.  She  also  played  Felicite  in  Mrs.  Fran 
ces  Hodgson  Burnett's  play,  "That  Man  and  I."  The  most  im 
portant  engagement  of  her  career  was  that  of  leading  woman 
with  Sir  Henry  Irving,  she  playing  Ellen  Terry's  roles  of  Rosa- 
monde  in  "Becket,"  Julie  in  "The  Lyons  Mail,"  Ncrah  in  "Water 
loo,"  and  Marie  in  "Louis  XI."  Last  season  Miss  Fealy  starred 
as  Ernestine  in  Martha  Morton's  "The  Truth  Tellers,"  but  ended 
as  leading  woman  with  William  Collier  in  "On  the  Quiet."  Miss 
Fealy  has  appeared  at  Elitch's  Garden  in  Denver  every  summer 
for  the  last  seven  years,  during  which  time  she  has  appeared 
in  "A  Royal  Family,"  "Prince  and  the  Pauper,"  "Dorothy  Ver- 
non,"  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy,"  "Mice  and  Men,"  "The  Little 
Minister,"  "When  Knighthood  Was  in  Flower,"  "Romeo  and 
Juliet,"  "The  Christian,"  "Faust,"  and  "Lady  Dainty."  In  Sep- 


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tember,  1906,  Miss  Fealy  signed  with  John  Cort  for  five  years, 
making  her  first  appearance  as  a  star  in  the  title  role  of  Martha 
Morton's  latest  comedy,  "The  Illusion  of  Beatrice."  The  season 
of  1907-8  she  starred  in  "The  Stronger  Sex,"  by  John  Valen'.ine. 
Miss  Fealy  was  married  to  Louis  E.  Sherwin,  a  young  English 
man,  dramatic  critic  of  the  Denver  Republican,  July  15,  1907. 
Her  home  is  at  826  East  Colfax  street,  Denver,  Colo. 

FENTON,  Miss  Mabel  (Mrs.  Charles  J.  Kelly)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Lawrence,  Mich.,  June  29,  1872,  her 
maiden  name  being  Ada  Towne.  She  was  educated  in  Chicago 
and  made  her  first  stage  appearance  at  Minneapolis  in  "The  Oc 
toroon"  under  the  management  of  M.  E.  Sackett.  Miss  Fenton 
married  Charles  J.  Ross,  the  actor,  whose  real  name  is  Kelly, 
at  Deadwood,  N.  Dak.,  June  9,  1887,  and  since  then  she  has 
been  associated  with  him  in  stage  work,  the  team  being  widely 
known  as  Ross  and  Fenton.  She  made  her  most  pronounced 
successes  with  travesties  of  famous  players  in  their  favorite 
parts.  With  the  Weber  and  Fields  company  she  imitated  Mrs. 
Fiske  in  "Tess  of  the  Weber-fields,"  Mrs.  Carter  as  Zaza,  Viola 
Allen  in  "The  Christian,"  Maude  Adams  in  "The  Little  Minis 
ter,"  etc.  The  season  of  1906-7  she  played  Beezy  in  "The  Social 
Whirl,"  opening  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York,  May  14,  1906, 
and  starred,  in  conjunction  with  her  husband,  in  the  same  piece 
the  fall  of  1907.  In  November,  1907,  she  joined  Joseph  Weber's 
company,  opening  in  New  York  in  a  travesty  of  "The  Thief," 
and  afterward  playing  in  a  burlesque  of  "The  Merry  Widow." 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Professional  Woman's  League;  is  fond 
of  horses  and  outdoor  sports,  and  her  home  is  at  the  Ross  and 
Fenton  Farm,  Asbury  Park,  N.  J. 

FERGUSON,  Robert  V.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Dumbarton,  Scotland,  but  started  his 
stage  career  in  this  country,  making  his  first  appearance  at 
Tony  Pastor's,  New  York,  in  a  farce  called  "Bijah  Frisby."  He 
was  in  the  first  production  of  "The  Cherry  Pickers"  at  the  Four 
teenth  Street  Theatre,  New  York,  and  also  played  in  "Captain 
Karl,"  and  "Fatherland,"  with  Charles  A.  Gardner.  He  made 
his  first  pronounced  success  with  Mrs.  Fiske  as  Sir  Pitt  Crawley 
in  "Becky  Sharp"  the  seasons  of  1900-1-2.  He  afterward  was 
seen  with  Charles  Dalton  in  "The  Helmet  of  Navarre,"  with 
Frank  Keenan  in  "The  Hon.  John  Grigsby,"  and  with  Katherine 
Kidder  in  "A  Country  Girl"  and  in  "Francillon."  After  a  sea 
son  as  Eccles  in  "Caste,"  and  with  J.  H.  Stoddard  in  "The  Bon 
nie  Brier  Bush,"  he  created  the  part  of  Herr  Linden  with  Mrs. 


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Fiske  in  "Leah  Kleshna."  The  season  of  1906-7  he  played  Tom 
Fiddler  in  "The  New  York  Idea,"  and  the  season  of  1907-8  he 
was  again  with  Mrs.  Fiske. 

FEEGUSON,  William  J.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  made  his  first  ap 
pearance  on  the  stage  with  a  stock  company  at  Ford's  Theatre, 
Washington,  in  1864,  playing  minor  parts.  He  was  with  the 
Mrs.  Conway  Stock  Company  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  for  two  sea 
sons  and  a  half,  and  subsequently  was  seen  as  a  member  of 
Wallack's  company.  In  1874  he  appeared  in  "Colonel  Sellers" 
with  John  T.  Raymond,  and  the  following  year  with  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  W.  J.  Florence  in  "The  Mighty  Dollar."  After  several  years 
in  stock  he  appeared  in  numerous  farces  on  tour  and  finally 
was  seen  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre  in  such  plays  as  "Jim 
the  Penman,"  "Hazel  Kirke,"  etc.  Among  the  various  plays 
Mr.  Ferguson  has  appeared  in  are:  "The  Fatal  Card,"  "The  Girl 
from  Maxim's,"  "The  Brixton  Burglary,"  "A  Modern  Magdalen," 
"Romeo  and  Juliet"  with  Eleanor  Robson  and  Kryle  Bellew, 
"The  Secret  of  Polichinelle,"  with  William  H.  Thompson,  the 
season  of  1904-5;  "Friquet"  with  Marie  Doro,  and  "The  Walls 
of  Jericho"  with  James  K.  Hackett.  The  season  of  1906-7  Mr. 
Ferguson  appeared  with  Virginia  Harned  in  "The  Love  Letter," 
and  on  August  3,  1907,  in  "The  Movers"  at  the  Hackett  Thea 
tre,  New  York.  He  was  seen  in  the  title  role  of  Austin  Strong's 
"The  Toymaker  of  Nuremburg"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New 
York,  November  25,  1907. 

FIELDS,  Lew  M. : 

Comedian,  was  born  in  New  York  January  1,  1867.  He  was 
graduated  from  the  Allen  street  public  school,  and  began  his 
career  as  an  entertainer  in  1877  in  partnership  with  Joseph 
Weber,  playing  Dutch  comedy  sketches  at  the  East  Side  variety 
houses.  They  were  at  first  professionally  known  as  "The  Dutch 
Senators."  For  several  years  Weber  and  Fields  played  in  vaude 
ville  houses,  and  in  1885  they  formed  their  own  company, 
still  continuing  their  knockabout  acts.  Ten  years  later  they 
leased  a  small  theatre  on  Broadway,  New  York,  and  founded 
the  entertainment  which  quickly  became  famous  and  continued, 
as  a  successful  partnership,  until  1904.  During  that  time  they 
had  in  their  company  many  of  the  most  famous  burlesque  and 
light  opera  artists  of  the  American  stage  and  produced  many 
successful  musical  entertainments,  chiefly  written  by  Edgar 
Smith,  with  music  by  John  Stromberg.  In  1904  the  firm  of 
Weber  &  Fields  was  dissolved,  and  Mr.  Fields  formed  a  part- 


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nership  with  Henry  Hamlin  and  Julian  Mitchell,  producing 
similar  entertainments,  the  first  of  which  was  "It  Happened  in 
Nordland."  Mr.  Fields  also  leased  a  theatre  built  on  West 
Forty-second  street,  New  York,  and  named  it  Fields's  Theatre. 
The  season  of  1906,  however,  he  abandoned  this  and  leased  the 
Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  where,  in  the  fall,  he  prp- 
duced  "About  Town."  The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  seen  in  "The 
Girl  Behind  the  Counter."  Mr.  Fields's  wife  was  Rose  Harris. 
His  home  is  at  334  West  Eighty-eighth  street,  New  York.  His 
business  address  is  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  Fields's 
Theatre  having  been  renamed  the  Hackett  Theatre. 

FERNANDEZ,  Miss  Bijou  (Mrs.  W.  I.  Abingdon)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York,  being  the  daughter  of  Mrs. 
E.  L.  Fernandez,  a  well-known  theatrical  agent,  and  the  grand 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Bradshaw,  who  for  years  were 
attached  to  the  old  and  new  Bowery  Theatre  companies.  Miss 
Fernandez  made  her  first  appearance  when  only  a  child  at  the 
Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Little  Mary  in  "May 
Blossom."  She  afterward  played  Arthur  in  "King  John"  with 
Edwin  Booth,  Little  Meenie  in  "Rip  Van  Winkle"  with  Joseph 
Jefferson,  Baby  Fritz  with  J.  K.  Emmett,  Little  Lord  Fauntleroy, 
and  Topsy  in  the  children's  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"  company. 
About  this  time  Augustin  Daly  signed  a  seven  years'  contract 
with  her  parents  for  the  child's  services,  and  also  undertook 
complete  charge  of  her  education.  With  the  Daly  company  she 
played  many  parts,  being  especially  successful  as  Puck  in  "A 
Midsummer  Night's  Dream."  She  was  the  youngest  Puck  ever 
seen  in  this  country.  Her  engagement  ended,  she  finished  her 
education  at  the  De  Valencia  Institute  and  returned  to  the  stage 
to  play  the  grown-up  Meenie  with  Joseph  Jefferson.  After  stock 
seasons  at  Washington,  Baltimore,  Troy  and  Albany,  in  1899  she 
made  a  success  as  Rosalind  in  "As  You  Like  It."  After  a  time 
in  the  Empire  Theatre  Stock  Company,  New  York,  she  supported 
John  Drew  in  "One  Summer's  Day,"  Mrs.  Fiske  in  "Tess  of  the 
D'Urbervilles,"  and  Amelia  Bingham  in  "The  Climbers,"  and 
"The  Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson."  In  1900  Miss  Fernandez  made  a 
good  impression  as  Lygia  in  "Quo  Vadis,"  and  was  seen  as 
Alison  Deyo  in  "Hearts  Aflame."  In  1902  she  was  the  star  in 
the  stock  company  at  the  opening  of  the  Circle  Theatre,  New 
York,  and  in  1894  she  was  the  Marianne  in  the  star  cast  of 
"The  Two  Orphans,"  and  played  in  "The  Fair  Exchange."  The 
season  of  1906  she  played  the  leading  part  in  "The  Redskin'' 
at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York,  and  afterward  Lonka  in 


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"Arms  and  the  Man"  with  Arnold  Daly.  The  season  of  1907-8 
she  went  into  vaudeville,  supporting  Edwin  Arden  in  his  one- 
act  play,  "Captain  Velvet."  She  was  married  to  W.  L.  Abing- 
don,  the  English  actor,  on  May  29,  1906. 

FIGMAN,  Max: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Vienna,  Austria,  in  1868.  His  father, 
Bernhart,  and  his  mother,  Henrietta  Rappa  Figman,  came  to 
this  country  in  the  early  70's.  Max  Figman  showed  histrionic 
talent  at  an  early  age,  and  as  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia 
Drawing  Room  Club  he  became  an  accomplished  amateur.  He 
made  his  debut  at  the  age  of  sixteen  as  Prosper  Courmant  in 
"A  Scrap  of  Paper,"  and  later  played  in  Willie  Edouin's  "Fun 
in  a  Photograph  Gallery."  His  first  marked  success  was  as 
Jean  Frangois  in  "Passepartout,"  produced  on  January  24,  1888.. 
in  Philadelphia,  under  the  management  of  Imre  and  Bolossy 
Kiralfy.  Some  of  the  parts  he  has  played  since  then  include 
Captain  Jack  O'Hara  in  "Heartsease,"  Jonas,  the  bell  ringer,  in 
"Dolores,"  Butterfield  in  "Le  Voyage  de  Suzette,"  General  de 
Mauch  in  "Love's  Extract,"  Captain  Dandy  in  "Burmah,"  Jack 
McKay  in  "The  Absent  Boy,"  Dewey  Bedford  in  "A  Ward  of 
France,"  Adhemar  Gratignon  in  "Divorgons,"  Jules  Barton  in 
"A  Misfit  Marriage,"  Arthur  Chamberlain  in  "Club's  Baby,"  Dick 
Swiveller  in  "Little  Nell  and  the  Marchioness,"  Fournier  in 
"Miranda  of  the  Balcony,"  Torwald  Helmar  in  "A  Doll's  House," 
Richard  Murry  in  "Gretna  Green,"  and  Assessor  Brack  in 
"Hedda  Gabler."  Mr.  Figman  starred  as  Sir  Reginald  Belsize  in 
"The  Marriage  of  Kitty"  during  the  season  of  1904-5,  and  in 
1905-6  was  featured  as  Grand  Dudley,  with  Florence  Roberts,  in 
"Ann  La  Mont,"  and  as  Baron  von  Kleber  in  "The  Strength  of 
the  Weak."  The  season  of  1906-7  he  starred  under  John  Cort's 
management  in  "The  Man  on  the  Box,"  and  went  with  it  to 
London  the  following  season.  Mr.  Figman  is  an  excellent  horse 
man  and  is  fond  of  rowing  and  fishing.  He  has  written  several 
plays  and  sketches,  and  appeared  for  a  short  time  in  vaudeville 
in  one  of  the  latter.  During  his  various  engagements  with  Mrs. 
Fiske  he  staged  for  her  "A  Doll's  House,"  "Mary  of  Magdala," 
"Divorgons,"  and  "Miranda  of  the  Balcony." 

FILKINS,  Miss  Grace  (Mrs.  Adolph  Marix)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Philadelphia.  When  Haverly's  juvenile 
"Pinafore"  company  was  formed  she  was  engaged  to  sing  and 
play  the  part  of  Josephine.  Colonel  John  A.  McCaull  saw  one 
of  her  performances  and  engaged  her  for  his  opera  company. 
With  this  company  she  made  her  first  appearance  in  New  York, 


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playing  in  "Josephine  Sold  by  Her  Sisters"  at  Waliack's  Theatre. 
A  year  later  she  was  enrolled  as  a  member  of  the  Augustin  Daly 
company  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  and  there  she  entered  into 
legitimate  comedy  work  with  such  artists  as  Ada  Rehan,  John 
Drew  and  James  T.  Lewis.  She  appeared  in  such  plays  as  "Love 
in  Harness,"  "Nancy  &  Co.,"  "7-20-8,"  and  as  the  Widow  in 
"Taming  of  the  Shrew."  Since  then  she  has  played  Madame 
Olympe  in  "Camille,"  the  Duchess  in  "Adrienne  Lecouvreur," 
Phoebe  in  "As  You  Like  It,"  the  juvenile  role  in"Donna  Diana," 
the  Page  in  "Much  Ado  About  Nothing,"  and  minor  parts  in 
"Cymbeline,"  and  "Measure  for  Measure,"  under  Madame  Mo- 
djeska.  She  created  the  part  of  Fairy  Graciosa  in  "The  Crystal 
Slipper,"  and  was  in  McKee  Ranldn's  "Runaway  Wife"  com 
pany.  She  has  also  played  in  the  companies  of  Rosina  Yokes 
and  the  late  Sol  Smith  Russell.  In  1902  she  supported  Otis 
Skinner  in  "Prince  Otto,"  and  was  subsequently  seen  in  George 
Broadhurst's  "The  Last  Chapter."  On  September  24,  1906,  Miss 
Filkins  appeared  in  the  initial  production  of  Charles  Klein's 
"The  Daughters  of  Men,"  and  on  October  14,  1907,  was  seen  in 
Ms  "The  Stepsister"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York.  Miss 
Filkins  married  Admiral  Adolph  Marix  in  1896.  Her  home  is  at 
49  West  Forty-fourth  street,  New  York. 

PINNEY,  Jameson  Lee: 

Actor,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  in  1863.  As  a  boy 
he  studied  art  in  New  York,  under  Maynard,  because  of 
his  parents'  objection  to  his  following  the  stage  as  an  occu 
pation.  He  was  a  failure  as  an  artist,  however,  and  finally 
made  his  professional  debut  in  Lawrence  Barrett's  company, 
playing  minor  juvenile  roles,  and  when  Booth  and  Barrett  joined 
forces  he  had  the  honor  of  appearing  as  Osric  with  the  former 
in  "Hamlet."  After  a  short  engagement  at  Daly's,  New  York, 
he  joined  the  Frohman  Stock  Company  and  made  his  first  suc 
cess  as  Captain  Larelle  in  "Under  the  Red  Robe"  at  the  Empire 
Theatre,  New  York.  For  five  years  he  continued  at  the  Em 
pire  in  light  comedy  roles,  while  there  appearing  as  Sir  Richard 
Kettle  in  "Frocks  and  Frills,"  and  as  Lord  Huntworth  in  "Lady 
Huntworth's  Experiment."  He  was  seen  also  in  "The  Two 
Schools,"  and  "A  Fool  and  His  Money."  The  season  of  1905-5 
he  was  with  Margaret  Anglin  in  the  production  of  "Zira,"  which 
ran  nearly  an  entire  season  at  the  Princess  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  on  October  2,  1906,  he  appeared  in  "The  Stolen  Story"  at 
the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York,  and  on  tour.  The  fall  of  1907 
he  opened  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  being  featured  in  "The 
Man  in  the  Case"  under  the  management  of  Walter  N.  Law- 


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rence.     The  balance  of  the  season  of  1907-8  he  starred  in  "The 
Man  on  the  Box." 

FISCHER,  Miss  Alice  (Mrs.  William  Harcourt)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Indiana,  and  made  her  first  appearance 
in  the  company  of  the  late  Frank  Mayo.  The  season  of  1888 
she  played  Minna  in  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy"  at  the  Broadway 
Theatre,  New  York,  and  afterward  was  seen  in  "The  Canuck" 
at  the  Bijou,  "The  Clemenceau  Case"  at  the  Standard,  "Nero" 
at  Niblo's  Garden,  and  "The  White  Squadron"  at  the  Four 
teenth  Street  Theatre.  She  joined  the  Empire  company,  New 
York,  opening  December  3,  1894,  as  Helen  Larondie  in  "The 
Masqueraders."  The  seasons  of  1895-6  she  was  seen  in  "The 
Sporting  Duchess,"  and  "Two  Little  Vagrants,"  at  the  American 
Theatre,  New  York.  Subsequently  she  was  seen  in  "Quo  Vadis," 
"Mrs.  Jack,"  and  "What's  the  Matter  with  Susan?"  She  ap 
peared  in  "Piff,  Paff,  Pouf"  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York, 
in  "Coming  Through  the  Rye"  and  in  "His  Honor  the  Mayor." 
Miss  Fischer  was  seen  in  "Funabashi"  at  the  Casino  Theatre, 
New  York,  January  6,  1908. 

PISKE,  Harrison  Grey: 

Manager,  author  and  journalist,  was  born  at  Harrison,  West- 
chester  County,  New  York,  July  30,  1861,  being  the  son  of  Ly- 
man  and  Jane  Maria  (Durfee)  Fiske  and  grandson  of  Jonathan 
and  Eunice  (Fiske)  Durfee,  residents  of  Wales,  Mass.  Through 
both  parents  he  is  descended  from  John  Fiske,  of  Weybred,  Eng 
land,  whose  forefathers  had  dwelt  at  Laxfield,  in  the  same 
county,  since  the  time  of  Henry  IV.  Emigrating  to  New  Eng 
land  in  1648,  John  Fiske  settled  at  Watertown.  One,  if  not 
more,  of  his  numerous  descendants  bore  arms  in  the  Revolu 
tionary  War,  Asa,  his  great-grandson,  being  a  lieutenant  in 
Captain  Freeborn  Moulton's  company  of  minute  men  in  Colonel 
Danielson's  regiment.  Harrison  Grey  Fiske,  after  attending  Dr. 
Chapin's  Collegiate  School  in  New  York,  spent  some  time  in 
Europe,  and  then  returned  to  his  native  country  to  enter  the 
University  of  the  City  of  New  York.  His  tastes  were  literary, 
and  while  at  college  he  wrote  short  stories  and  sketches  for 
magazines  and  newspapers  and  corresponded  for  several  West 
ern  dailies.  He  entered  journalism  regularly  as  editorial  writer 
and  dramatic  critic  on  the  Jersey  City  Argus,  and  later  he  held 
a  similar  post  on  the  New  York  Star,  then  under  John  Kelly's 
control.  In  July,  1879,  he  became  a  contributor  to  The  Dra 
matic  Mirror,  and  in  the  autumn  of  the  same  year  bought  an 
interest  in  the  stock  company  that  owned  it.  The  same  year 


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he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  paper.  At  that  time  he  was 
eighteen  years  old.  In  1883  Mr.  Fiske  obtained  a  controlling 
interest  in  the  newspaper,  and  five  years  later  became  sole 
proprietor.  In  1886  he  was  dramatic  critic  of  the  New  York 
Star.  Mr.  Piske  has  advocated  encouragement  of  the  Ameri 
can  drama  and  has  worked  for  the  spread  of  patriotism  in  dra 
matic  art.  Mr.  Fiske  married  at  Larchmont,  N.  Y.,  March  19, 
1890,  Mary  Augusta,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Mad- 
dern)  Davey,  better  known  as  Minnie  Maddern,  the  actress. 
Mr.  Fiske  entered  the  field  of  management  as  the  manager  of 
Mrs.  Fiske  in  1896.  In  1901  he  leased  the  Manhattan  Theatre, 
New  York,  as  the  home  theatre  for  Mrs.  Fiske,  and  conducted 
it  for  five  years,  making  various  productions  during  that  period. 
He  has  also  introduced  to  the  American  stage  Bertha  Kalich, 
the  Polish  actress.  He  is  one  of  the  so-called  independent  man 
agers  who  have  several  times  entered  the  lists  against  the  so- 
called  Theatrical  Trust.  Mr.  Fiske  is  a  trustee  of  the  Actors* 
Fund,  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  of  the  Ameri 
can  Academy  of  Social  Science,  and  of  the  Zeta  Psi  fraternity. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  American  Dramatists'  Club  and  of  the 
Lotos  Club;  was  secretary  of  the  Goethe  Society  and  has  been 
vice-president  of  the  New  York  Shakespeare  Society. 

FISKE,  Mrs.  Minnie  Maddern  (Mrs.  Harrison  Grey  Fiske)  : 
Actress,  was  born  in  New  Orleans  December  19,  1865.  Her 
father  was  Thomas  Davey,  prominent  in  the  South  as  a  theatri 
cal  manager,  and  her  mother,  Mrs.  Minnie  Maddern,  the  daugh 
ter  of  Richard  Maddern,  an  English  musician,  who  came  to  this 
country  with  a  large  family  and  organized  a  traveling  concert 
company  composed  of  his  own  children.  The  organization  was 
known  as  the  Maddern  Family.  Mrs.  Maddern  became  a  well- 
known  actress  later  under  her  husband's  management.  Mrs. 
Fiske  was  two  years  old  when  she  first  went  on  the  stage.  Be 
tween  acts  she  sang  a  ballad,  "Jamie  Coming  Over  the  Meadow."1 
As  Minnie  Maddern  she  made  her  debut  in  Little  Rock,  Ark., 
at  the  age  of  three  years  as  the  Duke  of  York  in  "Richard  III." 
She  first  appeared  in  New  York  with  Laura  Keene  in  "Hunted 
Down,"  being  then  five  years  old.  She  later  played  Prince  Ar 
thur  in  the  revival  of  "King  John"  at  Booth's  Theatre,  New 
York,  with  John  McCullough,  Junius  Brutus  Booth  and  Agnes 
Booth  in  the  cast.  When  she  was  twelve  years  old  she  played 
Frangois  in  "Richelieu,"  and  Louise  in  "The  Two  Orphans." 
When  thirteen  she  assumed  the  part  of  the  Widow  Melnotte 
with  astonishing  success.  She  played  the  round  of  child's  parLs 
with  Barry  Sullivan  and  later  with  Lucille  Western.  She  was 


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the  original  Little  Fritz  in  J.  K.  Emmett's  first  production  at 
Wallack's  and  Niblo's,  New  York;  Paul  in  "The  Octoroon"  a: 
Philadelphia,  Franko  in  "Guy  Mannering"  with  Mrs.  Waller, 
Sybil  in  "A  Wolf  in  Sheep's  Clothing"  with  Cavlotta  Le  Clerq, 
Little  Mary  Morgan  in  "Ten  Nights  in  a  Barroom"  with  Yankee 
Locke  in  Boston,  and  the  Child  in  "Across  the  Continent"  with 
Oliver  Doud  Byron.  She  took  the  child's  part  with  E.  L.  Dav 
enport  in  "Damon  and  Pythias"  and  other  plays  in  Philadel 
phia;  she  played  Heinrich  and  Meenie  in  "Rip  Van  Winkle," 
Adrienne  in  Daly's  "Monsieur  Alphonse,"  the  boy's  part  in  "The 
Bosom  Friend,"  Alfred  in  the  first  road  production  of  "Divorce," 
Georgie  in  "Frou-Frou"  with  Mrs.  Scott-Siddons;  the  Child  in 
"The  Chicago  Fire,"  Hilda  in  Emmet's  "Carl  and  Hilda,"  Ralph 
Rackstraw  in  Hooley's  juvenile  "Pinafore"  company,  and  Clip 
in  "A  Messenger  from  Jarvis  Section."  At  the  age  of  ten  she 
acted  the  Sun  God  in  David  Bidwell's  production  of  "The  Ice 
Witch"  at  New  Orleans,  and  she  also  appeared  in  "Aladdin," 
"The  White  Fawn"  and  other  spectacular  pieces.  Brief  periods 
were  spent  by  the  young  actress  in  French  or  convent  schools 
in  the  cities  of  New  Orleans,  St.  Louis,  Montreal  and  Cincin 
nati.  Her  education,  despite  her  constant  change  of  locality, 
was  methodical,  and  it  was  carefully  supervised  by  her  mother. 
Mrs.  Fiske  became  a  star  at  the  age  of  sixteen.  After  that  time 
and  up  to  the  time  of  her  temporary  retirement  she  had  be 
come  identified  with  several  plays,  among  them  being  "Caprice" 
and  "In  Spite  of  All."  When  she  was  married,  in  1890,  and  re 
tired  from  the  stage,  she  had  no  thought  of  a  permanent  relin- 
quishment  of  the  theatre.  On  her  return  to  the  stage  she  soon 
took  a  place  in  the  front  rank  of  American  actresses.  Her  reper 
toire  includes  the  parts  of  Nora  in  "A  Doll's  House,"  Marie  De- 
loche  in  "The  Queen  of  Liars"  ("La  Menteuse"),  Cesarine  in 
"La  Femme  de  Claude,"  Madeline  in  "Love  Finds  the  Way" 
(Marguerite  Merington's  adaptation  of  the  German  play,  "Das 
Recht  auf  Gliick"),  Cyprienne  in  "Divorgons,"  Magda  Gilberte 
in  "Frou-Frou,"  and  the  one-act  plays,  "Little  Italy,"  "A  Bit  of 
Old  Chelsea,"  "A  Light  from  St.  Agnes,"  "Not  Guilty"  and  "A 
WThite  Pink."  Mrs.  Fiske  had  been  accepted  throughout  the 
country  as  one  of  the  foremost  American  actresses  when,  in  the 
spring  of  1897,  she  appeared  in  "Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles"  at 
the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York.  Subsequent  successes  were 
Langdon  Mitchell's  comedy,  entitled  "Becky  Sharp,"  founded  on 
Thackeray's  "Vanity  Fair";  "Miranda  of  the  Balcony,"  "The 
Unwelcome  Mrs.  Hatch,"  Paul  Heyse's  "Mary  of  Magdala,"  Ib 
sen's  "Hedda  Gabler,"  C.  M.  S.  McLellan's  "Leah  Kleschna,"  pro 
duced  in  1905,  and  a  one-act  play  by  John  Luther  Long  entitled 


174  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

"Dolce."  The  season  of  1906-7  she  starred  in  "The  New  York 
Idea,"  and  on  December  30,  1907,  appeared  in  a  revival  of  Ib 
sen's  "Rosmersholm"  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New  York. 

FITCH,  William  Clyde: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  New  York  May  2,  1865.  He  was 
graduated  by  Amherst  College  in  1886,  and  immediately  started 
on  a  literary  career.  His  first  effort  was  "A  Wave  of  Life," 
published  in  1889.  His  first  play  was  "Betty's  Finish,"  pro 
duced  at  the  Boston  Museum.  It  had  a  run  of  two  months.  His 
next  was  "Beau  Brummel,"  written  for  Richard  Mansfield  and 
since  played  by  him  nearly  a  thousand  times.  A  complete  list 
of  Mr.  Fitch's  plays,  the  original  plays  listed  in  the  order  OL 
their  production,  and  those  for  whom  they  were  written,  com 
prises  the  following:  Original  plays— "Beau  Brummel"  for  Rich 
ard  Mansfield,  "A  Modern  Match"  for  the  Union  Square  Theatre 
company,  "Pamela's  Prodigy"  for  Mrs.  John  Wood  in  London, 
"His  Grace  de  Grammont"  for  Mme.  Modjeska,  "April  Weather" 
for  Sol  Smith  Russell,  "Nathan  Hale"  for  Nat  Goodwin,  "The 
Moth  and  the  Flame"  for  the  Kelcey-Shannon  company,  "Bar 
bara  Frietchie"  for  Julia  Marlowe,  "The  Cowboy  and  the  Lady" 
for  Nat  Goodwin,  "The  Climbers"  for  Amelia  Bingham,  "Cap 
tain  Jinks"  for  Ethel  Barrymore,  "Lovers'  Lane"  for  W.  A. 
Brady's  company,  "The  Way  of  the  World"  for  Elsie  De  Wolfe, 
"The  Girl  and  the  Judge"  for  Annie  Russell,  "The  Last  of  the 
Dandies"  for  Beerbohm  Tree  in  London,  "The  Stubbornness  of 
Geraldine"  for  Mary  Mannering,  "The  Girl  with  the  Green  Eyes" 
for  Clara  Bloodgood,  "Her  Own  Way"  for  Maxine  Elliott,  "Major 
Andre"  for  Arthur  Byron,  "Glad  of  It"  for  Charles  Frohman's 
company,  "The  Coronet  of  the  Duchess"  for  Clara  Bloodgood, 
"The  Woman  in  the  Case"  for  Blanche  Walsh,  "Her  Great  Match" 
for  Maxine  Elliott,  "The  Toast  of  the  Town"  for  Viola  Allen, 
"The  Girl  Who  Has  Everything"  for  Eleanor  Robson,  and 
"Truth"  for  Clara  Bloodgood.  One-act  plays — "Betty's  Finish" 
for  the  Boston  Museum  company  and  "Frederic  Le  Maitre"  for 
Felix  Morris,  later  Henry  Miller.  Adaptations— "The  Social 
Swim"  for  Marie  Wainwright,  "Gossip,"  with  Leo  Ditrichstein, 
for  Mrs.  Langtry;  "The  Head  of  the  Family,"  with  Leo  Ditrich- 
stein,  for  William  H.  Crane;  "A  Superfluous  Husband,"  with 
Leo  Ditrichstein,  for  William  H.  Crane;  "The  Marriage  Game," 
"Bohemia"  for  the  Empire  Theatre  company,  "The  Bird  in  the 
Cage"  for  Charles  Frohman's  company,  "The  Masked  Ball"  for 
John  Drew,  "Sapho"  for  Olga  Nethersole,  "Granny"  for  Mrs. 
Gilbert,  "Cousin  Billy"  for  Francis  Wilson,  "The  Frisky  Mrs, 
Johnson"  for  Amelia  Bingham,  and  "'Wolfville,"  with  Willis 


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Steele,  for  Charles  Frohman's  company.  The  fall  of  1906  he 
dramatized  Mrs.  Edith  Wharton's  novel,  "The  House  of  Mirth," 
for  Charles  Frohman,  and  in  1908  his  "Fluffy  Ruffles,"  a  musical 
comedy,  was  produced.  Mr.  Fitch's  New  York  home  is  at  113 
East  Fortieth  street.  He  has  a  country  place,  Quiet  Corner,  at 
Greenwich,  Conn. 

FITZGERALD,  Edward: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  in  1876,  being  the  son 
of  a  surgeon-oculist.  He  was  educated  at  the  Dublin  Univer 
sity  and  Uppingham  School,  and  made  his  first  appearance  on 
the  stage  at  Liverpool,  England,  with  F.  R.  Benson.  The  sea 
son  of  1897-8  he  was  associated  with  Edward  Compton;  the 
seasons  of  1897-8  and  1899-1901  and  in  the  fall  of  1901  was 
seen  at  the  Imperial  Theatre,  London,  with  Herbert  Waring. 
After  an  engagement  with  Harry  Paulton  in  "Niobe,"  the  sea 
son  of  1901-2,  he  came  to  this  country,  appearing  with  the  late 
Richard  Mansfield  in  repertoire.  He  returned  to  England  in 
1905  as  manager  for  Charles  Hawtrey.  In  1901  Mr.  Fitzgerald 
married  Miss  Mona  Harrison,  an  actress.  His  home  is  at  39 
Gordon  Mansions,  W.  C.,  London,  England. 

FLORENCE,  Miss  Katherine  (Mrs.  Fritz  [Frederick]  Will 
iams)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Birmingham,  England,  being  the  daugh 
ter  of  Katherine  Rogers  and  a  sister  of  Eleanor  Moretti,  both, 
well-known  actresses.  She  was  educated  at  the  Convent  of  St. 
Gabriel  at  Peekskill,  N.  Y.;  in  Paris,  and  in  Villa  Maria,  Mon 
treal.  She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  at  the  Fifth  Avenue 
Theatre,  New  York,  with  Mrs.  Langtry  in  the  fall  of  1887.  The 
season  following  she  was  seen  at  that  playhouse  in  "Philip 
Herne,"  and  the  winter  of  1889  again  supported  Mrs.  Langtry  in 
repertoire.  The  season  of  1889-90  she  appeared  in  "Henrietta" 
with  Stuart  Robson  at  Proctor's  Twenty-third  Street  Theatre,. 
New  York,  and  the  seasons  of  1890-1-2  supported  Wm.  H.  Crane. 
The  season  of  1892-3  she  was  seen  in  "The  Lost  Paradise"  and 
"The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me,"  and  subsequently  joined  the  Ly 
ceum  Theatre  Company,  replacing  Effie  Shannon.  She  was  with 
that  organization  five  seasons.  In  1898  Miss  Florence  appeared 
in  "On  and  Off,"  and  the  following  year  in  "The  King's  Mus 
keteers"  with  E.  H.  Sothern  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New 
York.  She  then  supported  William  Gillette  in  "Sherlock  Holmes "' 
at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  and  Wm.  H.  Crane  in  "David 
Harum,"  later  appearing  for  a  short  engagement  in  "Sky  Farm." 
She  left  the  stage  for  a  year,  returning  in  1903  to  appear  in. 


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"Sweet  Kitty  Bellairs"  with  Henrietta  Crosman  at  the  Belasco 
Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1904-5  she  was  with  William 
Faversham  in  "Letty"  at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  and  that  of  1905-6 
with  Nat  C.  Goodwin  in  "Beauty  and  the  Barge."  The  fall  of 
1906  she  appeared  with  Leo  Ditrichstein  in  "Before  and  After" 
at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  and  was  seen  as  Lila  Hake  in  "The 
Other  House"  at  the  Majestic  Theatre,  New  York,  August  30, 
1907.  Miss  Florence  married  Fritz  Williams,  an  actor,  June  25, 
1896. 

FORBES-ROBERTSON,  Johnston: 

Actor  and  manager,  was  born  in  London  January  16,  1853, 
being  the  son  of  John  Forbes-Robertson,  an  art  critic  and  jour 
nalist.  He  was  educated  at  Charterhouse,  and  afterward  in 
France  and  Germany,  where  he  studied  painting.  In  1870  he 
was  admitted  as  a  student  at  the  Royal  Academy  School  of  Art, 
London.  His  inclination,  however,  was  toward  the  stage,  and 
in  1874  he  made  his  debut  as  Chastelard  in  "Mary  Stuart"  at 
the  Princess  Theatre.  He  gained  experience  under  the  manage 
ment  of  Charles  Calvert  in  Manchester,  where  he  played  with 
Phelps  in  Shakespearian  parts.  In  1880-1  he  supported  Mme. 
Modjeska  at  the  Court  Theatre,  London,  playing  chiefly  Shake 
spearian  characters  and  in  1883  he  joined  the  Bancrofts  at  the 
Haymarket,  playing  leading  parts  with  them  up  to  July,  1885, 
when  he  went  to  the  United  States  with  Mary  Anderson.  On 
his  return  to  England  he  supported  Miss  Anderson  at  the  Ly 
ceum  in  "The  Winter's  Tale,"  for  which  he  designed  the  cos 
tumes  and  appointments.  He  then  joined  John  Hare,  playing 
Dunstan  Renshaw  in  "The  Profligate"  at  the  Garrick  in  1889, 
and  Baron  Scarpia  in  "La  Tosca"  at  the  end  of  the  same  sea 
son.  In  1890  he  appeared  in  Pinero's  "Lady  Bountiful."  Then 
followed  another  American  tour,  after  which  he  played  Buck 
ingham  to  Irving's  Henry  VIII.  In  1896  he  opened  the  Lyceum, 
London,  under  his  own  management,  producing,  among  other 
plays,  "For  the  Crown,"  and  making  the  chief  success  of  his 
career  by  his  impersonation  of  Hamlet.  He  also  appeared  with 
Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell  in  "Magda,"  "Macbeth,"  and  "Pelleas 
and  Melisande."  In  1902  he  leased  the  Lyric  Theatre,  produc 
ing  "Mice  and  Men"  and  "The  Light  That  Failed."  He  became 
the  lessee  of  the  new  Scala  Theatre,  London,  which  he  opened 
in  September,  1905,  with  "The  Conqueror,"  a  drama  by  the 
Duchess  of  Sutherland.  This  was  followed  by  "For  the  Crown," 
and  "Mrs.  Grundy,"  by  Madeline  Lucette  Ryley.  The  season  of 
1906-7  he  toured  in  this  country  in  "Caesar  and  Cleopatra,"  a 
comedy-drama  by  Bernard  Shaw.  He  then  returned  to  London. 


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In  1900  Mr.  Forbes-Robertson  married  May  Gertrude  Dermot, 
an  American  actress  known  on  the  stage  as  Gertrude  Elliott,  a 
sister  of  Maxine  Elliott. 

FOEDE,  Stanley  Hamilton: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  February  9,  1878,  and  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  there.  He  made  his  first  stage 
appearance  with  the  Bostonians  in  "Robin  Hood,"  in  New  York, 
April  4,  1898,  and  then  sang  many  of  the  principal  roles  with 
the  Metropolitan  Comic  Opera  Company  on  tour  through  the 
'North.  In  1899  he  sang  the  basso  role  in  "The  Jolly  Musketeer" 
with  Jefferson  De  Angelis,  and  later  was  seen  in  "The  Highway 
man."  After  appearing  in  a  small  part  in  "Ben  Hur"  at  the 
Broadway  Theatre,  New  York,  he  was  featured  as  soloist  with 
Primrose  and  Dockstader's  Minstrels  at  the  Victoria  Theatre, 
New  York.  He  was  subsequently  seen  as  Mr.  Reddish  in  "The 
Princess  of  Kensington,"  in  "The  Medal  and  the  Maid,"  as  the 
Owl  in  "Woodland,"  as  Baron  Lombardo  in  "The  Princess  Beg 
gar"  with  Paula  Edwardes  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  as  Noah  in  "Noah's  Ark."  The  season  of  1907-8  he  appeared 
as  Dudley  Wilcox  in  George  M.  Cohan's  "The  Talk  of  New  York," 
produced  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New  York,  December  3, 
1907.  Mr.  Forde  is  a  brother  of  Louise  Forde,  the  actress.  His 
home  is  at  the  Hotel  Longacre,  New  York. 

FOX,  Miss  Delia  May  (Mrs.  Jacob  David  Levy) : 

Actress  and  light  opera  singer,  was  born  in  St.  Louis  Oc 
tober  13,  1872.  Her  father  was  A.  J.  Fox,  a  photographer.  She 
made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  when  she  was  seven 
years  old  as  the  Midshipmite  in  a  children's  "Pinafore"  com 
pany.  She  next  appeared  in  a  child's  part  in  "A  Celebrated 
Case,"  James  O'Neill  being  the  star.  She  first  attracted  atten 
tion  as  the  creator  of  the  part  of  Editha  in  Augustus  Thomas's 
dramatization  of  Mrs.  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett's  story,  "Edi- 
tha's  Burglar."  This  was  produced  by  the  Dickson  Sketch  Club, 
of  St.  Louis,  an  organization  which  included  Augustus  Thomas 
and  Edgar  Smith,  both  now  well-known  playwrights.  Miss  Fox 
in  her  early  'teens  joined  the  Bennett  and  Moulton  Opera  Com 
pany  and  sang  leading  soprano  roles.  She  next  was  engaged 
by  Heinrich  Conried  for  the  soubrette  part  in  the  opera  "The 
King's  Fool,"  and  attracted  attention  with  the  song  "Fair  Co 
lumbia."  In  May,  1890,  De  Wolf  Hopper  made  his  first  appear 
ance  as  a  star  in  ''Castles  in  the  Air"  at  the  Broadway  Theatre, 
New  York.  Miss  Fox  was  selected,  chiefly  on  account  of  her 
small  stature,  to  play  the  soubrette  part  of  Blanche,  and  prin- 


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cipally  through  the  medium  of  the  "Athletic  Duet"  she  shared 
the  success  of  the  opera  with  the  elongated  star.  The  following 
summer,  when  "Wang"  was  produced  in  New  York,  she  made 
her  greatest  triumph  in  the  part  of  Mataya  particularly  by  her 
singing  of  "Another  Fellow."  Next  she  appeared  with  Hopper 
in  "Panjandrum,"  and  in  August,  1894,  she  became  a  star  in 
Goodwin  and  Furst's  opera,  "The  Little  Trooper,"  which  was 
followed  by  "Fleur-de-Lis"  by  the  same  author  and  composer. 
Miss  Fox  appeared  with  Lillian  Russell  and  Jefferson  De  An- 
gelis  in  "The  Wedding  Day"  at  the  Casino,  New  York,  in  the 
fall  of  1897,  and  the  following  year  starred  in  "The  Little  Host." 
At  this  time  she  suffered  a  serious  illness,  and  her  life  was 
despaired  of  for  months.  After  her  recovery  she  made  a  few 
appearances  in  vaudeville  in  1900.  December  26  of  that  year 
she  was  married  to  Jacob  David  Levy,  a  New  York  diamond 
broker,  at  Boston.  Since  then  she  has  appeared  chiefly  in  vaude 
ville  houses. 

FOY,  Eddie  (Edwin  Fitzgerald) : 

Comedian,  was  born  in  New  York,  being  the  son  of  Richard 
and  Ellen  Hennessy  Fitzgerald.  He  made  his  first  appearance 
in  1869  at  a  benefit  at  the  Newsboys'  Home  at  Chicago,  doing  a 
clog  dance.  In  1876  he  was  dancing  at  the  Cosmopolitan  Varie 
ties  in  Chicago,  and  in  1878  with  a  partner,  as  Foy  and  Thomp 
son,  he  was  doing  turns  at  concert  halls  in  Kansas  City,  Dodge 
City,  Kan.,  and  Leadville.  The  team  did  black-face  sketches 
and  acrobatic  songs  and  dances.  In  1879  Mr.  Foy  was  at  the 
Palace  Theatre,  Denver,  remaining  there  until  1881,  when  he 
went  to  California,  opening  at  the  Adelphi  Theatre,  San  Fran 
cisco,  where  he  did  white-face  specialties  in  the  opening  olios 
and  played  leading  parts  in  the  dramas  which  wound  up  the 
show.  He  then  joined  Emerson's  Minstrels,  and  after  ten  weeks 
went  to  Butte,  Mont.,  playing  in  a  variety  show  owned  by  Gor 
don  and  Ritchie.  From  there  he  went  to  the  Carncross  Min 
strels  in  Philadelphia.  In  1884  Mr.  Foy  joined  Kelley  and 
Mason's  company,  playing  "Tigers."  He  then  played  six  weeks 
in  the  Union  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  with  Carrie  Swain's 
"Jack  in  the  Box"  company.  He  again  went  to  California  and 
joined  the  Alcazar  Stock  Company.  After  that  he  joined  the 
George  S.  Knight  company  playing  "Over  the  Garden  Wall." 
He  made  his  first  comedy  hit  as  the  Lunatic  with  Kate  Castle- 
ton  in  1888.  The  following  year  he  joined  David  Henderson  at 
the  Chicago  Opera  House,  opening  in  "Cinderella;  or,  The  Crys 
tal  Slipper."  The  following  season  he  played  principal  comedy 
parts  in  "Bluebeard,"  and  for  successive  seasons  in  "Sinbad  tho 


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Sailor,"  and  "AH  Baba."  Mr.  Poy  then  starred  in  plays  called 
"Off  the  Earth,"  "Robinson  Crusoe,"  and  "The  Strange  Adven 
tures  of  Miss  Brown."  Then  he  played  in  "Topsy  Turvey"  for 
one  hundred  and  fifty  nights  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New 
York.  He  was  then  with  Klaw  and  Erlanger  a  season,  and  after 
ward  in  "The  Strollers"  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre.  After  a 
season  in  "The  Wild  Rose"  and  another  in  "Mr.  Bluebeard"  Mr. 
Foy  was  in  the  disaster  at  the  Iroquois  Theatre,  Chicago,  barely 
escaping  with  his  life.  For  nine  months  he  was  the  star  of 
"Piff,  Paff,  Pouf"  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York,  and  then  he 
was  starred  in  "The  Earl  and  the  Girl"  by  the  Shuberts,  tour 
ing  with  that  piece  a  second  season  in  1906-7.  The  season  of 
1907-8  he  was  seen  in  "The  Orchid."  Mr.  Foy  married  Madeline 
Morando,  premier  dancer,  in  1895.  His  home  is  in  Post  road, 
New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

FRANKLYN-LYNCH,  Miss  Grace  (Franklin) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  being  the  daughter  of 
Dr.  E.  C.  Franklin.  She  was  educated  in  her  native  city  and 
at  private  schools  in  San  Francisco,  making  her  first  stage  ap 
pearance  in  Newark,  N.  J..  September  11,  1893,  with  Stuart  Rob- 
son  in  "The  Comedy  of  Errors."  She  remained  with  him  as 
leading  woman  until  1896,  and  the  following  year  joined  Fred 
Ward's  company,  playing  principally  Grecian  and  romantic  roles. 
She  then  became  a  member  of  the  Valentine  Stock  Company  in 
Columbus,  Ohio,  succeeding  Rose  Stahl  as  leading  woman,  and 
the  season  of  1899-1900  alternated  with  Marie  Booth  Russell  as 
Robert  Mantell's  leading  woman.  Numerous  stock  engagements 
followed  when,  owing  to  ill  health,  she  was  forced  to  retire  tem 
porarily  from  the  stage.  In  1907  she  joined  the  Poli  Stock  Com 
pany  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  on  September  16,  1907,  ap 
peared  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New  York,  supporting  James  O'Neill 
in  his  revival  of  "Virginius"  and  in  "The  Count  of  Monte 
Cristo."  Miss  Franklyn-Lynch's  favorite  recreation  is  reading. 
Her  summer  home  is  in  Monson,  Mass. 

FREAR,  Fred  (Frederick  H.) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  educated  in  Chi 
cago,  111.  Before  going  on  the  stage  he  followed  the  occupa 
tion  of  a  bookkeeper.  He  made  his  first  appearance  in  "The 
Chimes  of  Normandy"  at  Urig's  Cave,  St.  Louis,  in  May,  1879. 
Since  then  he  has  played  comedy  roles  in  a  vast  number  of 
comic  operas,  musical  comedies  and  farces,  having  made  pro 
nounced  successes  as  Coquelicot  in  "Olivet"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue 
Theatre,  New  York;  as  Snaggs  in  "A  Bunch  of  Keys,"  as  Kibosh 


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in  "The  Wizard  of  the  Nile,"  in  the  title  role  in  "The  Mayor  ot 
Tokio"  with  Richard  Carle,  and  as  Hadji  in  "The  Sultan  of 
Sulu."  The  season  of  1907-8  he  played  Mr.  Nish  in  "The  Merry 
Widow,"  produced  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre  October  21, 
1907.  Mr.  Frear's  home  is  at  3950  Cottage  Grove  avenue,  Chi 
cago,  111. 

FREDERICK,  Miss  Pauline: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  August  12,  1884,  being 
the  daughter  of  Loretta  E.  Frederick.  She  was  educated  at  pri 
vate  schools  in  Boston,  and  for  some  time  before  going  on  the 
stage  was  prominent  in  social  circles  in  her  native  city.  Her 
first  appearance  was  at  the  Boston  Music  Hall  in  a  singing  act 
April  21,  1902.  During  her  leisure  moments  she  devoted  her 
self  to  studying  for  grand  opera.  After  a  brief  engagement  with 
the  Rogers  Brothers  Miss  Frederick  was  seen  in  "The  Princess 
of  Kensington"  with  James  T.  Powers  at  the  Broadway  Theatre, 
New  York.  Illness,  however,  forced  her  to  leave  the  cast  soon 
afterward.  The  fall  of  1904  she  joined  Lew  Fields's  forces  and 
appeared  in  "It  Happened  in  Nordland,"  succeeding  Blanche 
Ring  in  the  leading  role  when  that  company  left  on  tour.  But 
the  drama  appealed  to  her  more  than  musical  comedy,  and  she 
appeared  in  Channing  Pollock's  "Little  Gray  Lady,"  touring  the 
country  with  it  and  making  a  marked  success.  The  season  of 
1906-7  Miss  Frederick  was  seen  in  "The  Girl  in  White,"  and 
in  the  fall  of  1907  was  Francis  Wilson's  leading  woman  in 
"When  Knights  Were  Bold,"  produced  at  the  Garrick  Theatre, 
New  York,  August  20,  1907.  She  appeared  in  "Twenty  Days  in 
the  Shade"  at  the  Savoy  Theatre  January  20,  1908.  Miss  Fred 
erick's  favorite  recreations  are  automobiling  and  out-of-door 
sports,  besides  devoting  much  of  her  time  to  studying  the  Shake 
spearian  heroines.  She  is  very  fond  of  live  stock.  Her  home  is 
at  204  West  Fifty-fifth  street,  New  York. 

FREEMAN,  Max: 

Actor  and  stage  manager,  began  his  theatrical  career  in  his 
native  country,  Germany.  When  he  first  came  to  America  ho 
was  engaged  as  stage  manager  of  the  Germania  Theatre,  New 
York.  Later  he  went  to  San  Francisco,  where  he  became  a 
member  of  the  California  Theatre  Stock  Company,  making  his 
first  appearance  there  as  Kautchikoff  in  the  original  produc 
tion  of  "Fatinitza"  in  English.  From  the  California  Theatre  he 
went  to  Baldwin's  Theatre  as  stage  manager  and  leading  come 
dian.  His  next  engagement  was  with  the  Emily  Melville  Opera 
Company,  which  produced  light  opera  with  marked  success  in 


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Boston  and  Chicago.  Mr.  Freeman  first  came  into  prominence 
as  an  actor  in  New  York  by  his  playing  of  the  small  part  of 
the  Waiter  in  "Divorgons,"  produced  by  the  late  Henry  E.  Ab 
bey.  He  then  turned  his  attention  exclusively  to  adapting  and 
staging  operas  and  plays.  Among  the  plays  and  operas  he  has 
staged  have  been  "Orpheus  and  Eurydice,"  "Held  by  the  Ene 
my,"  "The  Rajah"  and  Bartley  Campbell's  "Siberia."  At  the 
Casino,  New  York,  he  staged  "The  Brigands,"  "The  Grand 
Duchess,"  "Erminie"  and  "The  Fencing  Master."  The  season  of 
1907-8  Mr.  Freeman  supported  Miss  Grace  George  in  "Divorgons." 

FRENCH,  Miss  Pauline: 

Actress,  was  born  in  California,  being  the  daughter  of 
Moses  and  Theresa  Schrank  French.  She  was  educated  in  San 
Francisco,  and  made  her  first  professional  appearance  in  that 
city  September  21,  1895,  as  Celia  in  "As  You  Like  It."  She  after 
ward  played  Rosalind  in  the  same  play  at  the  Leland  Stanford 
University.  At  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York,  she  played  Lady 
Constance  in  "The  Geisha,"  and  Charlotte  in  a  revival  of  "The 
Magistrate."  In  this  house  she  was  also  Diana  in  "The  Lottery 
of  Love,"  and  Angelica  in  "A  Night  Off,"  and  afterward  was  a 
member  of  Henry  Dixey's  company.  In  1904  she  went  to  Lon 
don  to  fill  an  engagement  at  the  St.  James's  Theatre,  where  she 
appeared  as  Lady  Plimdale  in  a  revival  of  "Lady  Windermere's 
Fan."  In  1905  she  appeared  at  the  London  Comedy  Theatre  as 
the  Duchess  of  Carbondale  in  "On  the  Quiet"  with  William 
Collier. 

FRIGrANZA,  Miss  Trixie  (Delia  O'Callahan)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  the  daughter  of  Irish 
and  Spanish  parents.  She  made  her  first  appearance  on  the 
stage  in  "The  Pearl  of  Pekin"  in  1889  and  subsequently  ap 
peared  in  such  musical  shows  as  "A  Trip  to  Chinatown,"  "The 
Mascot,"  with  Henry  Dixey,  "Patience,"  "lolanthe,"  and  "La 
Poupee."  The  season  of  1900-1  she  made  her  first  marked  suc 
cess  in  "The  Belle  of  Bohemia,"  and  with  this  piece  she  went 
to  London.  She  was  also  seen  in  London  in  "The  Whirl,  of  the 
Town"  at  the  Century  Theatre,  and  then  returned  to  America 
to  appear  in  "The  Girl  from  Paris"  as  Julie  Bon  Bon.  Her  later 
successes  are  "The  Chaperon,"  "Twiddle  Twaddle,"  "His  Honor 
the  Mayor"  and  "The  Prince  of  Pilsen."  The  season  of  1907-8 
she  was  seen  as  Caroline  Volkens  in  "The  Orchid"  with  Eddie 
Foy,  produced  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre  April  8,  1907.  The 
season  of  1907-8  Miss  Friganza  was  seen  in  vaudeville. 


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PROHMAN,  Charles: 

Manager,  was  born  in  Sandusky,  Ohio,  June  17,  1860.  He 
is  the  younger  brother  of  Daniel  Frohman,  also  a  prominent 
manager.  When  Charles  Frohman  was  twelve  years  old  he  went 
to  New  York  and,  through  the  influence  of  Daniel,  who  was 
then  a  reporter  on  the  New  York  Tribune,  became  night  clerk 
in  the  business  office  of  that  newspaper.  He  attended  school 
during  the  day  and  at  nine  o'clock  at  night  began  his  work, 
remaining  in  the  Tribune  office  until  four  o'clock  in  the  morn 
ing  and  then  trudging  to  his  home,  two  and  a  half  miles  away. 
When  he  was  fourteen  he  left  school  and  was  employed  with 
his  brother  in  the  advertising  department  of  the  New  York 
Daily  Graphic.  There  he  worked  all  day.  At  night  he  sold 
tickets  in  the  box  office  of  Hooley's  Theatre,  Brooklyn.  To 
reach  his  home  after  the  performance  he  was  obliged  to  ride 
six  miles.  In  1877  he  went  West  to  take  charge  of  the  Chicago 
Comedy  Company,  which  produced  "Our  Boys"  and  similar  plays 
with  John  Dillon  as  the  star.  A  year  or  two  later  he  joined 
William  Haverly,  and  with  him  organized  the  Haverly  Mastodon 
Minstrels  which  opened  at  the  Howard  Athenaeum,  Boston.  He 
took  the  minstrels  to  London  and  toured  with  them  successfully 
in  the  English  provinces  for  nine  months.  At  the  end  of  1879 
he  again  joined  his  brother  Daniel,  who  was  then  managing  the 
Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York.  When  Daniel  retired  from 
the  management  of  this  theatre  Charles  Frohman  managed  the 
tours  of  several  companies  sent  out  with  the  Wallack  successes. 
Then  he  returned  to  New  York  and  established  himself  as  a  dra 
matic  agent  in  a  little  office  on  Broadway.  There  fortune  began 
to  smile  upon  him.  On  November  18,  1888,  Bronson  Howard's 
"Shenandoah"  was  produced  at  the  Boston  Museum.  Mr.  Froh 
man  was  the  agent  of  the  author.  The  play  was  not  a  success 
as  produced,  but  Mr.  Frohman  saw  great  possibilities  in  it,  and 
Mr.  Howard  agreed  to  make  the  changes  desired  by  his  agent. 
Then  Mr.  Frohman  obtained  the  entire  American  rights  to  the 
play,  except  for  Boston,  and  induced  Al.  Hayman,  a  California 
manager,  and  W.  R.  Hooley  to  join  him.  Each  of  these  ad 
vanced  one  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  while  Mr.  Frohman, 
with  no  money  to  contribute,  undertook  the  management.  The 
play  was  then  produced  at  the  old  Star  Theatre,  New  York. 
It  was  a  tremendous  success,  and  three  years  later  the  partners 
divided  among  them  a  profit  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
dollars,  having  paid  the  author  in  royalties  fifty  thousand  dol 
lars  more.  From  that  time  on  Mr.  Frohman  was  in  the  as 
cendant.  In  1890  he  organized  a  stock  company  in  what  was 
then  Proctor's  Theatre,  in  West  Twenty-third  street,  New  York. 


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This  finally  developed  into  the  Empire  Theatre  Stock  Company, 
In  the  meantime  Mr.  Frohman  had  been  planning  a  combina 
tion  of  theatrical  interests  which  would  control  the  United  States 
field.  He  obtained  the  aid  of  Al.  Hayman,  Rich  &  Harris,  of 
Boston;  Nixon  &  Zimmerman,  of  Philadelphia,  and  other  lead 
ing  and  wealthy  managers,  and  launched  what  is  known  as  the 
Theatrical  Trust.  In  a  few  years  this  organization  was  in  con 
trol  of  a  large  number  of  the  best  theatres  from  New  York  to 
San  Francisco  and  from  Boston  to  the  Gulf.  Then  leading  stars 
began  to  appear  under  the  management  of  Mr.  Frohman.  Mr. 
Frohman  next  extended  his  field  across  the  Atlantic  by  leasing 
and  managing  the  Aldych  and  Duke  of  York's  theatres  in  Lon 
don  and  becoming  jointly  interested  with  the  Gattis  in  the  Vaude 
ville,  and  with  Arthur  Chudleigh  in  the  Comedy.  He  pursued 
the  same  policy  in  England  that  had  been  so  successful  in  the 
United  States,  producing  at  his  London  theatres  all  his  Ameri 
can  successes  and  organizing  companies  to  play  them  in  the 
provinces.  He  divides  his  time  between  the  United  States  and 
Great  Britain,  going  to  London  every  February  and  remaining 
until  July. 

FROHMAN,  Daniel: 

Manager,  was  born  in  Sandusky,  Ohio,  in  1853.  He  was 
one  of  three  brothers,  all  of  whom  became  theatrical  managers. 
Daniel  was  the  oldest,  Gustave  the  second  and  Charles  the  third. 
In  1865  Daniel  Frohman  went  to  New  York.  He  became  a  mes 
senger  for  Albert  D.  Richardson  of  the  Tribune  editorial  staff. 
Later  he  became  a  reporter  on  the  Tribune  and  then  private  sec 
retary  to  Horace  Greeley.  When  John  R.  Young  founded  The 
Standard  young  Frohman  became  business  manager  and  later 
when  the  newspaper  suspended  publication,  two  and  a  half 
years  after,  Mr.  Frohman  became  an  advertising  agent  for  The 
Graphic,  the  first  daily  illustrated  newspaper  published  in  the 
United  States.  Ill  health  forced  him  to  abandon  this  business 
and  he  became  advance  man  for  Callender's  Minstrels.  In  1877 
he  became  identified  with  J.  H.  Haverly,  the  first  manager  to 
evolve  the  idea  of  combining  the  business  of  a  number  of 
theatres  under  one  management.  He  managed  the  Fifth  Avenue 
Theatre  for  Mr.  Haverly,  but  in  1879,  when  the  Mallory  brothers 
got  control  of  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  he  accepted  an  offer 
to  manage  that  house.  He  remained  there  until  1885,  ''Hazel 
Kirke,"  "Esmeralda,"  "The  Rajah,"  and  "May  Blossom"  (in 
which  Georgia  Cay  van  made  her  first  appearance)  being  pro 
duced  there  under  his  management,  In  1886,  when  A.  M.  Palmer 
took  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  Mr.  Frohman  obtained  control 


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of  the  Lyceum  Theatre  in  Fourth  avenue,  and  organized  a  stock 
company  with  Miss  Cayvan  as  leading  woman  and  Herbert  Kel- 
cey  as  leading  man.  Others  in  the  company  were  Erne  Shannon, 
Katherine  Florence,  Mrs.  Walcott,  Mrs.  Whiffen,  Henry  Miller, 
W.  J.  Le  Moyne,  Nelson  Wheatcroft,  Eugene  Ormond  and  Will 
iam  Faversham.  "The  Wife,"  the  first  play  presented  by  the 
company,  ran  for  a  season  and  the  theatre  leaped  from  obscurity 
to  prominence,  where  it  stayed  until  its  final  closing — about  fif 
teen  years.  In  the  meantime  Mr.  Frohman  had  starred  E.  H. 
Sothern  and  brought  the  Kendals  to  this  country.  "The  Wife," 
"Sweet  Lavender,"  "The  Charity  Ball,"  "The  Idler,"  a  revival 
of  "Old  Heads  and  Young  Hearts,"  "Lady  Bountiful,"  "Squire 
Kate,"  "Merry  Gotham,"  "The  Gray  Mare,"  "Americans  Abroad," 
"Trelawney"  and  "Rebellious  Susan"  were  some  of  his  most  suc 
cessful  plays  at  the  Lyceum.  After  the  old  Lyceum  had  disap 
peared,  the  new  Lyceum  was  constructed  by  Mr.  Frohman.  There 
its  chief  successes  were  E.  H.  Sothern  in  "The  Proud  Prince," 
William  Gillette  in  "The  Admirable  Crichton,"  Mrs.  G.  H.  Gil 
bert  in  "Granny,"  Ethel  Barrymore  in  "The  Doll's  House,"  Sii 
Charles  Wyndham  and  Mary  Moore  in  their  London  plays,  Mr. 
Klein's  play,  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse";  the  military  comedy, 
"The  Boys  of  Company  B,"  and  in  September,  1907,  the  debut 
as  a  star  of  Miss  Margaret  Illington  in  "Dr.  Wake's  Patient," 
an  English  comedy.  Mr.  Frohman  is  also  the  manager  of  Daly's 
Theatre,  which  he  leased  upon  the  death  of  Augustin  Daly.  In 
1904  Mr.  Frohman  married  Margaret  Illington,  the  well-known 
actress.  He  lives  in  West  Seventy-ninth  street,  New  York. 

FULLER,  Miss  Loie: 

Dancer,  was  born  near  Chicago  and  taken  to  that  city  when 
she  was  six  years  old.  She  was  a  precocious  girl,  and  at  that 
age  gave  a  number  of  lectures  on  temperance.  From  this  she 
was  graduated  to  the  stage,  and  in  her  'teens  she  played  all 
kinds  of  parts  in  Western  repertoire  companies.  Her  first  ap 
pearance  in  New  York  was  as  Jack  Sheppard  in  the  burlesque 
of  that  name,  produced  at  the  Bijou  Theatre  by  Nat  Goodwin. 
After  a  winter  in  New  York  she  took  a  company  to  the  West 
Indies,  playing  everything  from  Topsy  to  Juliet.  Then  she  took 
a  trip  to  Europe,  and  George  Edwardes  engaged  her  as  an  un 
derstudy  for  Nellie  Farren.  While  in  London  she  received  from 
a  friend  in  India  a  beautiful  white  silk  skirt,  and  this  skirt 
was  the  origin  of  the  skirt  dance,  in  which  she  became  famous. 
On  returning  to  America  she  was  cast  in  a  part  in  "Quack,  M.D., ' 
in  which  she  appeared  in  a  farcical  hypnotic  scene.  Not  know 
ing  just  what  to  wear,  she  thought  of  the  Indian  skirt.  She 


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fixed  it  up  with  a  silk  bodice,  fastened  it  with  springs  over  her 
shoulders,  and  in  the  unique  garb  danced  over  the  stage.  She 
discovered  that  it  caught  exquisitely  the  colors  of  the  calcium, 
and  with  this  discovery  came  the  creation  of  the  serpentine 
dance,  with  which  the  name  of  Loie  Fuller  thenceforward  be 
came  identified.  She  developed  the  dance  so  well  that  it  soon 
was  the  theatrical  rage  of  two  continents.  She  first  produced  the 
dance  at  the  Casino,  New  York.  Frank  McKee,  the  partner  of 
Charles  Hoyt,  saw  it  and  offered  Miss  Fuller  one  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars  a  week  to  dance  the  serpentine  in  Hoyt's  "A  Trip 
to  Chinatown"  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre.  After  remaining 
at  the  Madison  Square  for  several  months  Miss  Fuller  sailed  for 
Europe  and  danced  in  Berlin,  Paris  and  London. 

GALLAND,  Miss  Bertha: 

Actress,  was  born  near  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.,  November  15,  1876, 
and  when  little  more  than  a  child  made  a  deep  study  of  the 
heroines  of  Shakespeare.  In  1897  she  starred  through  New 
England,  the  late  Joseph  Haworth  being  her  leading  man.  She 
played  Lady  Macbeth  and  Juliet.  The  following  season  Mr. 
Haworth  became  the  star  and  Miss  Galland  was  his  leading 
woman.  She  made  her  first  appearance  in  New  York  at  the 
Criterion  Theatre  March  6,  1900,  playing  the  Princess  Ottilie  in 
"The  Pride  of  Jennico"  with  James  K.  Hackett  and  scored  a 
success,  continuing  in  the  part  for  two  seasons.  She  then  be 
came  a  star  in  "The  Forest  Lovers"  under  the  management  of 
Daniel  Frohman.  This  was  followed  by  "The  Love  Match"  and 
Esmeralda  in  "Notre  Dame."  The  seasons  of  1903-4  she  played 
"Dorothy  Vernon  of  Haddon  Hall"  under  the  management  of  J. 
Fred  Zimmerman,  Jr.,  and  following  years  she  was  under  the 
management  of  David  Belasco  in  "Sweet  Kitty  Bellairs."  Her 
home  is  at  1271  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

GEORGE,  Miss  Grace  (Mrs.  William  A.  Brady)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1880  and  received  a  con 
vent  education.  After  studying  dramatic  art  she  made  her  first 
stage  appearance  in  a  small  part  in  Charles  Frohman's  produc 
tion  of  "The  New  Boy,"  and  in  1894  succeeded  Edna  Wallace 
Hopper  as  Wilbur's  Ann  in  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me."  She 
next  attracted  attention  as  Aimee  in  "Charley's  Aunt"  and 
Gretchen  in  "The  Wandering  Minstrel."  After  supporting 
Charles  B.  Welles  as  Madeline  in  "Frederic  Lemaitre"  in  vaude 
ville,  she  attracted  especial  notice  by  her  work  in  Charles  Dick- 
son's  "Jealousy"  and  "An  Undeveloped  Bud"  also  in  vaudeville. 
After  appearing  in  "'The  Turtle"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre. 
New  York,  she  played  the  role  of  the  young  wife  in  "Mile.  Fifi," 


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thereby  enhancing  her  popularity.  She  made  her  first  appear 
ance  as  a  star  under  W.  A.  Brady's  management  in  the  comedy 
"The  Princess  Chiffon,"  an  adaptation  of  the  younger  Dumas's 
"Diane  de  Lys,"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1899. 
This  was  followed  in  1900  by  her  appearance  as  Queen  Wilhel- 
mina  in  "Her  Majesty."  The  season  of  1901-2  she  starred  in 
Lottie  Blair  Parker's  "Under  Southern  Skies."  Later  she  made 
a  tour  at  the  head  of  a  special  cast  as  Gilberte  in  Meilhac  and 
Halevy's  "Frou  Frou."  The  season  of  1903-4  she  made  one  of 
the  chief  successes  of  her  career  as  a  star  in  "Pretty  Peggy," 
the  Garrick-Woffington  play,  by  Fannie  Aymar  Matthews,  pro 
duced  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York.  The  spring  of 
1904  she  was  one  of  the  all-star  cast  in  the  revival  of  "The  Two 
Orphans"  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New  York.  After  ap 
pearing  as  Abigail  in  Kellett  Chambers's  comedy  of  that  name, 
she  played  the  role  of  Lady  Kitty  in  a  dramatization  of  Mrs. 
Humphry  Ward's  "The  Marriage  of  William  Ashe"  in  the  sea 
son  of  1905-6,  and  also  appeared  in  Rupert  Hughes's  comedy, 
"The  Richest  Girl,"  She  opened,  September  11,  1906,  at  the 
Manhattan  Theatre  with  "Clothes,"  by  Avery  Hopwood  and  Chan- 
ning  Pollock,  and  starred  in  this  piece  throughout  the  season. 
Early  in  1907  she  starred  in  "Divorgons,"  which  she  played  with 
great  success  in  London  during  the  summer.  The  season  of 
1907-8  she  starred  in  "Sylvia  of  the  Letters,"  by  Jerome  K. 
Jerome. 

GENEE,  Miss  Adeline: 

Dancer,  was  born  in  Aarhuus,  Jutland,  Denmark,  and  began 
dancing  at  the  age  of  eight.  She  studied  under  her  uncle,  Alex 
ander  Genee  and  made  her  first  professional  appearance  in  Co 
penhagen  when  she  was  seventeen  years  old.  She  subsequently 
appeared  in  Berlin  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  and  was  engaged 
as  leading  dancer  at  the  Empire  Theatre,  London,  where  she  has 
been  seen  for  a  number  of  years.  She  appeared  before  Queen 
Alexandra  at  Copenhagen  in  1904,  and  the  following  year  ap 
peared  as  a  special  feature  in  "The  Little  Michus"  at  Daly's 
Theatre,  London.  The  season  of  ,1906-7  she  was  leading  dancer 
in  the  ballets  of  "Coppelia,"  "Cinderella,"  and  "The  Debutante/" 
The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  seen  in  America  in  vaudeville. 

GEORGE,  Miss  Marie  (Mrs.  Norman  J.  Norman) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1879,  being  the  daughter 
of  German-American  parents.  She  was  educated  at  a  German 
school,  and  was  taught  music  by  her  father.  In  1897,  changing 
her  real  name  of  Georg  into  the  English  George,  she  made  her 


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first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  New  York  in  a  small  part  in 
"'The  Lady  Slavey."  She  was  rapidly  promoted,  until  she  as 
sumed  the  part  of  the  Lady  Slavey  herself.  She  created  five 
star  parts  in  less  than  a  year,  and  in  1900  went  to  London  with 
"The  Casino  Girl."  She  was  then  engaged  by  Henry  Lowenfeld 
to  play  in  the  opening  piece  at  the  new  Apollo  Theatre.  For 
two  seasons  she  played  the  principal  girl  part  in  Drury  Lane 
pantomimes,  and  in  1905  played  in  "The  White  Chrysanthemum" 
at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  London.  In  1906  Miss  George  played 
the  principal  girl's  part  in  the  Drury  Lane  pantomime,  "Sinbad 
the  Sailor." 

GERMAN,  Edward  (Smith) : 

Composer,  was  born  at  Whitchurch,  in  England,  February 
17,  1862,  and  was  educated  in  Chester.  When  eighteen  years  old 
he  became  a  student  at  the  Royal  Academy  of  Music,  London, 
and  for  professional  purposes  took  the  name  of  German  in  place 
of  his  own,  Smith.  For  some  years  he  played  the  violin  in  the 
orchestra  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  London,  and  became  a  protege 
and  pupil  of  the  late  Sir  Arthur  Sullivan.  He  first  established 
a  reputation  as  a  conductor  of  musical  festivals  in  England, 
and  the  composition  which  brough  him  early  fame  was  the  in 
cidental  music  to  "Henry  VIII"  for  Sir  Henry  Irving's  produc 
tion.  He  also  wrote  music  for  many  Shakespearian  productions, 
including  some  of  those  of  the  late  Richard  Mansfield.  When 
Sir  Arthur  Sullivan  died  he  completed  his  unfinished  opera, 
"The  Emerald  Isle,"  produced  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  London,  in 
1901.  Successive  years  he  composed  the  music  of  "Merrie  Eng 
land"  and  "A  Princess  of  Kensington,"  both  produced  at  the 
Savoy,  and  afterward  played  in  this  country-  His  latest  com 
position  for  the  stage  is  the  music  of  "Tom  Jones,"  a  comic 
opera,  produced  in  England  in  the  spring  of  1907  and  at  the 
Astor  Theatre,  New  York,  November  11,  1907.  Mr.  German's 
home  is  at  5  Hall  road,  London,  England. 

GERMON,  Miss  Effie: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Augusta,  Ga.,  being  the  daughter  of 
G.  C.  Germon,  of  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"  fame.  She  removed  with 
her  folks  to  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  her  childhood  and  made  her  first 
appearance  on  the  stage  in  a  Philadelphia  stock  company  the 
fall  of  1857,  and  then  joined  similar  organizations  in  Washing 
ton  and  Baltimore.  Her  New  York  debut  was  made  shortly  aft 
erward  in  John  Brougham's  company  with  which  she  remained 
several  years.  On  March  15,  1869  she  appeared  as  Naomi  Tighe 
in  T.  W.  Robertson's  "School"  with  Lester  Wallack,  and  was  a 


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member  of  that  actor's  company  seventeen  years.  Miss  Germon 
has  been  seen  with  the  late  Richard  Mansfield  in  "Prince  Karl," 
the  original  production  of  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy,"  with  Fran 
cis  Wilson  in  "Erminie,"  in  "The  Circus  Girl"  and  numerous 
equally  important  productions.  In  1899  she  toured  in  "Because 
She  Loved  Him  So,"  and  subsequently  in  "David  Harum,"  and 
"Are  You  a  Mason?"  The  season  of  1906-7  she  appeared  in 
"Sunday"  on  the  road. 

GIDDENS,  George: 

Was  born  at  Chadwick  Manor,  Middlesex,  England,  in  1855, 
being  the  son  of  James  Giddens,  a  farmer,  of  Arborfield  Berks. 
He  began  life  as  an  articled  clerk  in  a  solicitor's  office.  While 
playing  as  an  amateur  he  was  noticed  by  Sir  Charles  Wyndham, 
on  whose  advice  he  decided  to  study  for  the  stage.  He  made 
his  first  appearance  at  the  Theatre  Reyal,  Edinburgh,  in  1874. 
In  1875  he  came  to  the  United  States  with  Sir  Charles  Wynd 
ham.  His  first  appearance  in  London  was  in  1878,  when  he 
played  Jex  in  "The  Idol"  at  the  Folly  Theatre.  He  played  sev 
eral  years  at  the  Criterion,  London,  sharing  in  the  honors  of 
the  success  of  "Betsy,"  "The  Headless  Man,"  "Truth,"  "David 
Garrick,"  and  "The  Candidate."  In  1891  he  created  the  role  of 
Adolphus  Greenthorne  in  "Husband  and  Wife"  at  the  Comedy 
Theatre,  and  he  has  since  played  with  success  at  Wyndham's, 
the  Haymarket,  St.  James's  and  Drury  Lane.  He  married  Miss 
Katherine  Dandridge  Drew,  an  American,  in  1891.  The  fall  sea 
son  of  1906  he  appeared  with  Miss  Ellis  Jeffreys  at  the  Liberty 
Theatre,  New  York,  in  "The  Dear  Unfair  Sex,"  and  later  in  the 
season  played  in  "She  Stoops  to  Conquer"  with  William  H. 
Crane. 

GILBEET,  Sir  William  Schwenk: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  London  November  18,  1836.  In 
early  life  he  practised  as  a  barrister.  His  "Bab  Ballads,"  pub 
lished  in  Punch,  first  attracted  attention.  In  1870  his  play,  "The 
Palace  of  Truth,"  and  the  comic  cantata,  "Trial  by  Jury," 
brought  him  into  prominence  as  a  playwright.  His  other  best 
known  plays  are:  "Pygmalion  and  Galatea,"  produced  in  1871; 
"The  Wicked  World,"  1873;  "Charity,"  1874;  "Sweethearts," 
1874;  "Broken  Hearts,"  1876;  "Dan'l  Druce,"  1876;  "Ne'er-Do- 
Weel,"  1878;  "Gretchen,"  1879;  and  "Fogerty's  Fairy,"  1880.  Sir 
William  is  best  known,  however,  in  conjunction  with  the  late  Sir 
Arthur  Sullivan  as  the  author  of  the  remarkable  series  of  comic 
operas  beginning  with  "The  Sorcerer,"  produced  in  London  early 
in  1878;  "H.  M.  S.  Pinafore,"  1878;  "The  Pirates  of  Penzance," 


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1880;  "Patience,"  1881;  "lolanthe,"  1882;  "Princess  Ida,"  "The 
Mikado,"  "Ruddigore,"  "The  Yeomen  of  the  Guard,"  "The  Gon 
doliers,"  "Utopia,  Limited,"  and  "The  Grand  Duke."  He  is  also 
the  author  of  "The  Mountebanks,"  "His  Excellency,"  and  "The 
Fairy's  Dilemma."  His  home  is  at  Grimsdyke,  Harrow  Weald, 
Middlesex,  England. 

GILLETTE,  Miss  Viola: 

Actress  and  singer,  is  a  native  of  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah, 
where  she  made  a  reputation  as  a  church  singer  before  decid 
ing  to  adopt  the  stage  as  a  profession.  She  made  her  first  ap 
pearance  with  an  English  opera  company  in  Australia.  She  next 
joined  the  Alice  Nielsen  company,  returning  with  it  to  this  coun 
try.  She  made  a  pronounced  success  as  Prince  Charming  at  the 
New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New  York,  in  the  production  of  "The 
Beauty  and  the  Beast,"  and  remained  under  the  management  of 
Klaw  and  Erlanger  two  seasons.  She  then  joined  the  forces  of 
John  C.  Fisher,  and  in  the  fall  of  1906  went  into  the  vaudeville 
houses  with  a  singing  specialty.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was 
in  vaudeville. 


GILLETTE,  William: 

Actor  and  playwright,  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  July  24, 
1853.  He  is  the  son  of  Francis  Gillette,  ex-United  States  sen 
ator  and  once  a  candidate  for  governor  of  the  State.  When  a 
small  boy  he  showed  histrionic  tastes,  which  he  exploited  in  the 
attic  of  the  Gillette  homestead,  but  his  ambitions  were  frowned 
upon  by  his  parents.  He  was  graduated  from  the  Hartford  High 
School,  and  studied  at  the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York 
and  at  Boston  University.  When  about  twenty  years  old  Gil 
lette,  still  bent  on  a  stage  career,  left  his  home  and  studies  and, 
reaching  St.  Louis,  obtained  a  place  as  utility  man  in  the  stock 
company  of  Ben  De  Bar  which  opened  in  New  Orleans.  For 
this  Mr.  Gillette  received  nothing  a  week,  and  when  he  sug 
gested  an  increase  in  salary  he  was  discharged.  He  made  his 
way  home,  and  stayed  there  until  1875  when  Mark  Twain,  who 
was  a  neighbor  of  the  Gillettes,  obtained  an  engagement  for  him 
at  the  Globe  Theatre  in  Boston.  He  made  his  first  appearance 
as  Guzman  in  "Faint  Heart  Never  Won  Fair  Lady"  on  Septem 
ber  15  of  that  year.  That  same  season  he  played  the  Counsel 
for  the  Defence  in  "The  Gilded  Age"  with  John  T.  Raymond,  and 
also  played  Malcolm  in  "Macbeth,"  Montano  in  "Othello,"  Ben- 
volio  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet,"  Rosencrantz  in  "Hamlet,"  Master 


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Wilford  in  "The  Hunchback"  and  other  parts  in  a  wide  range  of 
modern  plays,  his  chief  success  being  as  Prince  Florian  in 
"Broken  Hearts,"  a  part  he  obtained  because  of  the  sudden  ill 
ness  of  Harry  Murdock.  Two  seasons  with  the  McCauley  Stock 
Company  in  Cincinnati  and  Louisville  followed,  during  which 
Mr.  Gillette  was  evolving  his  first  play.  This  had  its  birth  in 
one-act  form,  and  was  elaborated  until,  at  its  production  at  the 
Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  June  1,  1881,  under  the  title 
of  "The  Professor,"  it  was  a  full-fledged  three-act  play  with  the 
author  in  the  title  role.  The  play  ran  nearly  a  year  in  New 
York.  Mr.  Gillette  aided  Mrs.  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett  in  writ 
ing  "Esmeralda,"  which  followed  at  the  same  house,  and  he  also 
played  in  the  production  of  "Young  Mrs.  Winthrop."  In  1884 
Mr.  Gillette  played  the  principal  part  in  his  own  adaptation  of 
Von  Moser's  "Der  Bibliothekar"  at  the  Comedy  Theatre,  New 
York.  The  same  night  A.  M.  Palmer  produced  "The  Private  Sec 
retary,"  Charles  Hawtrey's  adaptation  of  the  same  play,  at  the 
Madison  Square  Theatre.  Threatened  lawsuits  ended  in  a  com 
promise,  and  Mr.  Gillette  for  several  seasons  starred  in  a  com 
posite  of  the  two  versions  of  "The  Private  Secretary."  Mr.  Gil 
lette's  next  play,  "Held  by  the  Enemy,"  was  produced  at  the  Cri 
terion  Theatre,  Brooklyn,  in  1886,  and  taken  to  the  Madison 
Square  Theatre,  where  it  achieved  great  success.  Mr.  Gillette 
himself  played  the  part  of  Thomas  Bean,  the  war  correspondent. 
Mr.  Gillette's  dramatization  of  Rider  Haggard's  "She"  was  pro 
duced  at  Niblo's  Garden  in  1887,  and  was  followed  by  his  "All 
the  Comforts  of  Home"  in  1890,  "Mr.  Wilkinson's  Widows"  in 
1891,  and  "Ninety  Days."  While  preparing  this  elaborate  pro 
duction  Mr.  Gillette  became  dangerously  ill  and  had  to  retire. 
As  an  invalid,  rusticating  in  North  Carolina,  he  wrote  his  great 
est  play,  "Secret  Service,"  which  was  produced  at  the  Broad 
Street  Theatre,  Philadelphia,  on  May  15,  1895.  "Too  Much  John 
son,"  a  comedy  by  Mr.  Gillette,  produced  at  the  Standard  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  the  previous  year  also  was  very  successful.  He 
also  wrote  "Settled  Out  of  Court"  and  "Because  She  Loved  Him 
So."  In  1901  Mr.  Gillette  dramatized  Sir  Conan  Doyle's  detect 
ive  stories,  under  the  title  of  "Sherlock  Holmes,"  himself  play 
ing  the  title  part,  with  much  success  in  this  country  and  in  Eng 
land  for  two  successive  seasons.  The  season  of  1903-4  he  played 
in  J.  M.  Barrie's  "The  Admirable  Crichton."  The  season  of 
1894-5  he  acted  in  London,  and  in  1905-6-7  he  produced  and 
played  in  "Clarice."  Mr.  Gillette  is  a  member  of  The  Players, 
The  Lambs  and  the  American  Dramatists'  Club,  New  York;  the 
Friday  Night  and  Albatross  clubs,  Boston,  and  the  Lake  City 
Club,  Chicago. 


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GILLMAN,  Miss  Mabelle  (Mrs.  William  E.  Cory) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  in  1880,  and  was 
educated  at  Mill's  College  in  that  city.  Her  first  stage  appear 
ance  was  made  in  September,  1896,  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York, 
in  "The  Geisha"  and  later  was  seen  at  the  same  playhouse  as 
Lucille  in  "The  Circus  Girl,"  and  in  "The  Runaway  Girl."  In 
1899  she  appeared  in  "In  Gay  Paree"  at  the  Casino  Theatre, 
New  York,  and  subsequently  as  Laura  Lee  in  "The  Casino  Girl." 
She  went  to  London  in  1900,  returning  to  America  in  1902  and 
appearing  in  "The  Mocking  Bird,"  "The  Hall  of  Fame,"  and 
"Dolly  Varden."  She  was  also  seen  in  London  in  October,  1903, 
in  the  latter  piece.  The  year  following  she  played  in  the  title 
role  in  the  comic  opera  "Amorelle"  at  the  Comedy  Theatre, 
London.  She  has  retired  from  the  stage.  Miss  Gillman  was 
married  to  William  E.  Cory,  the  president  of  the  Steel  Trust,  in 
Pittsburg  early  in  1907. 

GILLMORE,  Frank: 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  of  English  parents  who  re 
turned  to  their  native  land  when  he  was  only  a  few  months 
old.  His  mother,  Miss  Emily  Thome,  was  a  well-known  actress. 
Mr.  Gillmore  made  his  first  appearance  at  the  age  of  twelve  with 
a  traveling  pantomime  called  "Jack  and  the  Beanstalk"  under 
the  management  of  his  aunt,  Miss  Sarah  Thorne.  His  first  ap 
pearance  in  London  was  in  the  small  part  of  Captain  Vane  in 
"Fascination,"  by  the  late  Robert  Buchanan,  at  the  Vaudeville 
Theatre.  He  remained  in  the  stock  company  at  that  theatre  for 
three  years,  with  occasional  appearances  at  other  London  thea 
tres.  In  the  autumn  of  1892  he  returned  to  America  to  join 
Charles  Frohman's  forces.  His  first  appearance  was  in  St.  Louis 
in  "Settled  Out  of  Court."  The  following  spring  he  appeared  in 
New  York  for  the  first  time  at  the  Standard  Theatre  now  the 
Manhattan,  in  "The  Better  Part,"  and  later  in  "The  Arabian 
Nights."  The  next  season  he  went  on  the  road  and  for  eighteen 
months  played  the  part  of  Lord  Windermere  in  "Lady  Winder- 
mere's  Fan."  Returning  to  England  in  1895  he  played  engage 
ments  with  E.  S.  Willard,  Forbes-Robertson  and  Beerbohm  Tree. 
Then  he  was  under  John  Hare's  management  for  three  years. 
This  brought  him  again  to  this  country  on  Mr.  Hare's  second 
American  tour,  when  he  played  George  D'Alroy  in  "Caste,"  the 
Rev.  Noel  Brice  in  Pinero's  "The  Hobby  Horse,"  and  Percy  in 
"A  Pair  of  Spectacles."  When  Mr.  Hare  produced  the  Pinero 
play,  "The  Gay  Lord  Quex,"  in  London  Mr.  Gillmore  played 
Valma.  Then  he  joined  Nat  Goodwin's  company  and  was  the 
original  Soldierman  in  "When  We  Were  Twenty-one."  The  sea- 


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son  of  1899-1900  he  was  leading  man  with  Mrs.  Fiske,  playing 
Rawdon  Crawley  in  '"Becky  Sharp,"  and  Angel  Clare  in  "Tess." 
For  the  two  following  years  he  was  a  member  of  George  Faw- 
cett's  company  in  Baltimore.  The  season  of  1902-3  he  began 
with  "The  Japanese  Nightingale,"  and  after  that  closed  he  again 
joined  Mrs.  Fiske,  this  time  to  play  Aulus  Flavius  in  "Mary  of 
Magdala"  and  other  parts.  The  autumn  of  1904  he  returned  to 
England,  where  he  played  Captain  Lovel  in  "Mice  and  Men" 
with  Forbes-Robertson.  He  also  toured  this  country  with  him. 
Then  followed  a  short  season  at  the  American  Theatre,  where 
Mr.  Gillmore  played  Mercutio,  Bassanio  and  Sir  Christopher 
Deering  in  "The  Liars."  The  autumn  of  1905  he  joined  W.  A. 
Brady  and  Joseph  Grismer's  company,  appearing  as  John  St. 
John  in  "As  Ye  Sow."  He  left  that  after  the  New  York  run,  to 
play  the  Marquis  of  Tredbury  in  the  original  production  oi 
Winston  Churchill's  play,  "The  Title  Mart."  In  the  spring  of 
1906  he  appeared  at  the  Garrick  as  Sir  Charles  Foden  in  "What 
the  Butler  Saw."  On  Septembr  18,  1906,  he  played  Cecil  Stari- 
forth  in  "Man  and  His  Angel"  at  the  Haekett  Theatre,  New 
York,  and  then  joined  Miss  Henrietta  Crosman's  company  for 
the  balance  of  the  season,  appearing  as  Jimmy  Keppel  in  "All- 
of-a-Sudden  Peggy."  His  home  is  at  836  West  End  avenue, 
New  York.  Mr.  Gillmore's  wife  is  known  on  the  stage  as  Laura 
McGilvray. 

GILMOKE,  Barney: 

Irish  comedian  and  singer,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1867. 
As  a  young  man  he  sang  in  a  church  choir  in  Camden,  N.  J., 
and  when  twenty-one  joined  the  Duff  Opera  Company  to  play 
small  parts.  He  was  then  starred  in  a  play  called  "The  Irish 
Jockey,"  but  had  to  retire  on  account  of  ill  health  and  went 
back  to  church  work.  He  made  his  reappearance  at  Keith's,  in 
Philadelphia,  in  a  character  singing  specialty.  Then  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  John  Conley,  and  they  played  an  Irish  sketch 
in  the  vaudeville  houses  for  two  years.  He  next  joined  John  F. 
Leonard,  and  they  wrote  and  produced  "Hogan's  Alley,"  which 
proved  a  great  success.  Mr.  Gilmore  more  recently  starred  in 
his  own  play,  "The  Rocky  Road  to  Dublin."  The  season  of 
1907-8  Mr.  Gilmore  starred  in  "Dublin  Dan,  the  Irish  Detective." 

GILMOUR,  J.  H.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Montreal  and  made  his  first  appearance 
there  in  1877,  playing  Valentine  in  "Twelfth  Night,"  as  a  mem 
ber  of  the  Montreal  Stock  Company.  Subsequently  he  was  a 
member  of  Felix  Morris's  company  in  the  same  theatre  and 


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played  a  summer  season  with  George  Rignold.  After  a  season 
in  the  Halifax  Stock  Company  Mr.  Gilmour  was  engaged  at 
Wallack's  Theatre.  This  was  during  the  season  of  1878-9  and 
part  of  the  season  of  1880.  With  Eugene  A.  McDowell  as  man 
ager  he  went  to  the  West  Indies,  playing  such  parts  as  Ingomar, 
Pygmalion,  Elliot  Grey  in  "Rosedale,"  Julian  Gray  in  "The  New 
Magdalen,"  Hugh  Chalcott  in  "Ours,"  George  D'Alroy  and  Cap 
tain  Hawtree  in  "Caste,"  Lord  Beaufort  in  "School,"  Rudolph 
Chandose  in  "Led  Astray,"  Talbot  Champneys  in  "Our  Boys," 
as  well  as  the  leading  roles  in  Augustin  Daly's  "Pique,"  "Rose 
Michel,"  and  "The  Two  Orphans."  In  1881  Mr.  Gilmour  re 
turned  to  New  York,  joined  one  of  the  Madison  Square  travel 
ing  companies  and  supported  the  late  Carrie  Turner  in  "Hazel 
Kirke."  Mr.  Gilmour  then  took  a  company  of  his  own  to  Mon 
treal,  where  he  played  the  summer  season.  He  played  Andrea? 
in  Lillian  Olcott's  production  of  Sardou's  "Theodora."  Then  he 
played  the  title  role  in  "Mr.  Barnes  of  New  York,"  and  made  a 
memorable  hit  as  the  Earl  of  Dorrincourt  in  "Little  Lord  Faunt- 
leroy."  Mr.  Gilmour  supported  Rose  Coghlan  at  the  Union 
Square  Theatre,  New  York,  and  also  Julia  Marlowe  in  "Barbara 
Frietchie";  he  appeared  as  Flambeau  when  Maude  Adams  pro 
duced  Rostand's  "L'Aiglon."  Since  then  Mr.  Gilmour  has  been 
in  "The  Price  of  Peace,"  "The  Suburban,"  "Mizpah,"  and  "La 
Belle  Marsellaise."  Meanwhile  Mr.  Gilmour  had  appeared  in 
Denver  and  in  San  Francisco  with  local  stock  companies.  The 
season  of  1905-G  he  was  seen  in  Sidney  Rosenfeld's  "The  Opti 
mist"  with  Charlotte  Walker.  Later  he  played  lachimo  in  Viola 
Allen's  production  of  "Cymbeline."  Early  in  1907  Mr.  Gilmour 
took  charge  of  the  School  of  Acting  of  the  Chicago  Musical 
College. 

GIRARBOT,  Etienne: 

Actor,  was  born  in  London  of  French  parents.  His  father, 
E.  Gustave  Girardot,  is  a  painter  of  eminence  in  England.  Mr. 
Girardot  was  educated  for  commerce  and  became  an  accom 
plished  linguist,  but  home  surroundings  led  him  to  become  an 
art  student  first  and  a  dramatic  aspirant  later.  In  1875  he  made 
his  first  appearance  as  an  actor  in  a  small  part  in  the  English 
provinces.  Eight  years  of  hard  work  followed,  in  which  he 
sometimes  played  fifteen  parts  in  a  week,  and  on  one  occasion 
"went  on"  for  eight  characters  in  "Macbeth."  His  first  success 
was  at  Her  Majesty's  Theatre,  London,  in  "The  Yellow  Dwarf." 
After  a  year  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bancroft  at  the  Haymarket 
Theatre  he  played  engagements  with  John  Hare  and  Arthur 
Cecil,  appearing  as  Sir  Woodbine  Grafton  in  "Peril,"  and  the 


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Colonel  in  "The  Queen's  Shilling."  For  two  years  he  acted 
Colonel  Sterndale  in  "The  Solicitor,"  and  made  successes  as  the 
Idiot  in  "Almost  a  Life,"  and  Silas  Hobbs  in  "Little  Lord  Faunt- 
leroy."  He  was  the  Antonio  in  "Much  Ado  About  Nothing"  when 
Ellen  Terry  first  played  Beatrice.  In  1893  Mr.  Girardot  was  se 
lected  by  Brandon  Thomas,  the  author,  to  play  the  leading  part 
in  "Charley's  Aunt"  in  this  country,  and  made  his  first  appear 
ance  in  New  York  at  the  Standard,  now  the  Manhattan  Theatre. 
The  extraordinary  success  of  this  comedy  in  London,  where 
W.  S.  Penley  played  the  title  part,  was  duplicated,  and  Mr.  Gi 
rardot  has  become  chiefly  associated  as  an  actor  with  the  part 
of  Lord  Fancourt  Babberley.  In  this  country  he  has  also  played 
Cavendish  in  "Mam'zelle  'Awkins,"  Professor  Archibald  Gilwor- 
thy  in  "The  Purple  Lady,"  Frank  Stayner  in  "Miss  Francis  of 
Yale,"  Major  Wilbraham  with  Mrs.  Fiske  in  "Miranda  of  the 
Balcony,"  Baron  de  Stael  with  William  Collier  in  "The  Diplo 
mat,"  Sir  Robin  McTaft  in  "My  Lady  Peggy  Goes  to  Town," 
Flute  in  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream"  with  Nat  Goodwin, 
Valentine  Favre  in  "Leah  Kleschna"  and  Baptiste  in  "The  Rose," 
both  with  Mrs.  Fiske,  and  as  Auguste  de  St.  Gre  in  "The  Cross 
ing."  The  season  of  1907-8  he  appeared  in  vaudeville  in  the 
one-act  sketch,  "A  Game  of  Cards." 

GIRARDOT,  Miss  Isabelle: 

Actress,  is  a  sister  of  Etienne  Girardot,  the  actor.  She  was 
born  in  London  and  began  taking  lessons  on  the  violin  when 
she  was  four  years  old.  She  entered  the  Royal  Academy  of  Mu 
sic  when  she  was  nine  and  won  several  gold  and  silver  medals. 
In  her  early  'teens  she  made  her  first  professional  stage  appear 
ance  in  the  part  of  Ella  Willoughby  in  the  musical  comedy,  "In 
Possession,"  by  Walter  Browne,  at  Mr.  and  Mrs.  German  Reed's 
entertainment  at  St.  George's  Hall,  London.  Her  next  engage 
ment  was  in  "La  Cigale,"  in  which  she  played  the  title  role. 
She  also  appeared  in  "Madame  Favart,"  and  "The  Geisha,"  un 
der  the  management  of  George  Edwardes.  Other  roles  in  which 
she  has  appeared  are  Madame  Angot,  Olivette,  and  Pepita.  Miss 
Girardot  came  to  this  country  six  years  ago  and  has  devoted 
much  time  to  church  singing,  although  she  has  played  in  sev 
eral  of  F.  C.  Whitney's  productions.  She  recently  played  with 
her  brother  in  a  revival  of  "Charley's  Aunt." 

GLASER,  Miss  Lulu  (Mrs.  Ralph  C.  Herz) : 

Comedienne,  was  born  in  Allegheny  City,  Pa.,  on  June  2, 
1874.  In  1892,  when  Francis  Wilson  and  Marie  Jansen  were 
playing  in  "The  Lion  Tamer,"  Miss  Glaser  having  obtained 


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through  a  friend  an  introduction  to  Mr.  De  Novellis,  the  leader 
of  the  orchestra  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York,  sang  for 
him  there  to  test  her  capabilities.  Mr.  De  Novellis  was  so  well 
pleased  that  he  introduced  Miss  Glaser  to  Mr.  Wilson.  He  gave 
her  a  place  in  the  chorus  of  "The  Lion  Tamer"  and  also  made 
her  Miss  Jansen's  understudy.  When  the  latter  left  the  com 
pany  Miss  Glaser  took  her  place  and  jumped  into  popularity  as 
Angelina.  In  her  first  season,  1892,  Miss  Glaser  played  Lazuli 
in  "The  Merry  Monarch,"  and  Javotte  in  Mr.  Wilson's  revival  of 
"Erminie."  Then  she  played  Elverine  in  "The  Devil's  Deputy," 
and  in  1895  Rita  in  "The  Chieftain,"  still  with  Mr.  Wilson.  Next 
she  played  Pierette  in  "Half  a  King,"  and  Jacquelin  in  "The 
Little  Corporal."  In  1899-1900  she  played  Roxane  in  Mr.  Wil 
son's  production  of  the  opera  "Cyrano  de  Bergerac,"  and  again 
appeared  as  Javotte  in  a  revival  of  "Erminie."  The  next  sea 
son  she  appeared  as  a  star  at  the  head  of  her  own  company  in 
"Sweet  Annie  Page."  From  1901  to  1904  she  was  under  the 
management  of  Fred  Whitney  as  a  star  in  "Dolly  Varden," 
which  had  a  six  months'  run  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre, 
New  York.  From  1904  to  1906  she  was  under  the  management 
of  Charles  B.  Dillingham,  and  starred  in  "The  Madcap  Princess'' 
and  "Miss  Dolly  Dollars."  The  fall  of  1907  she  starred  in  "Lola 
from  Berlin,"  and  in  December,  1907,  she  joined  the  company 
of  Joseph  Weber.  The  spring  of  1907  Miss  Glaser  married  Ralph 
C.  Herz,  an  English  actor.  Miss  Glaser's  home  is  at  179  West 
Seventy-second  street,  New  York. 

GLENDINNING,  John: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Whitehaven,  Cumberland,  England,  No 
vember  30,  1857.  His  parents  were  Scotch,  his  grandfather  liv 
ing  close  by  and  being  a  personal  friend  of  Robert  Burns.  After 
considerable  experience  as  an  amateur  he  began  his  professional 
career  in  1880  as  a  member  of  Alexander  Wright's  company  at 
the  Theatre  Royal,  Greenock,  Scotland.  He  next  became  leading 
man  in  support  of  Walter  Bentley,  playing  such  parts  as  lago 
and  Mercutio.  A  season  with  Bland  Holt's  company  in  "Taken 
from  Life"  followed,  and  in  1887  he  created  the  part  of  Jack 
Dudley  in  "Hands  Across  the  Sea"  at  Manchester,  England.  He 
played  Tom  Potter  in  the  original  production  of  "The  Silver 
Shield,"  by  Sydney  Grundy,  and  he  was  one  of  the  first  to  play 
Wilfred  Denver  in  "The  Silver  King,"  David  Kingsley  in  "Har 
bor  Lights,"  and  Ned  Drayton  in  "In  the  Ranks."  In  1880  he 
joined  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kendal's  company,  making  his  first  appear 
ance  as  George  Desmond  in  "A  White  Lie."  The  same  year  he 
came  with  the  Kendals  to  this  country  opening  at  the  Fifth  Ave- 


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nue  Theatre,  New  York,  and,  with  the  exception  of  a  three  years' 
tour  with  his  own  company  in  England,  1896-9,  he  has  since 
been  associated  with  the  American  stage.  He  was  for  four  years 
under  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman.  He  was  the  Laird 
in  the  first  production  of  "Trilby"  in  this  country.  In  1899  he 
was  leading  man  with  Olga  Nethersole,  playing  in  "Sapho," 
"The  Second  Mrs.  Tanqueray,"  and  "Camille."  He  created  the 
part  of  Hardolph  Mayn  in  the  first  American  production  of 
"Joseph  Entangled,"  by  Henry  Arthur  Jones,  and  was  in  the 
cast  of  "Mrs.  Lemngwell's  Boots"  in  the  New  York  production. 
In  1905  Mr.  Glendinning  went  to  Australia  in  support  of  Nance 
O'Neil,  and  played  a  repertoire  of  leading  parts  there  and  in 
New  Zealand.  The  fall  of  1906  he  returned  to  New  York  to 
take  part  in  the  original  production  of  "The  Hypocrites"  at  the 
Hudson  Theatre.  The  fall  of  1907  he  produced  and  played  in 
a  vaudeville  sketch  of  his  own,  called  "A  Strolling  Player." 
The  season  of  1907-8  he  supported  Miss  Viola  Allen  in  "Irene 
Wycherley."  Early  in  1897  Mr.  Glendinning  married  Miss  Jessie 
Millward,  the  English  actress.  He  is  the  father  of  Jessie  L. 
Glendinning,  an  actress.  Mr.  Glendinning  is  a  remarkably  ex 
pert  swimmer,  having  many  times  swum  across  the  Narrows  of 
New  York  harbor  and  having  the  record  of  swimming  five  miles 
out  to  sea  and  back.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs,  New  York, 
and  the  Savage  Club,  London. 

GOLD,  Miss  Belle  (Mrs.  A.  W.  Cross) : 

Comedienne,  was  originally  a  newspaper  reporter,  starting 
when  she  was  twelve  years  old.  When  she  was  fourteen  an  as 
signment  was  given  her  to  write  about  the  life  of  stage  women 
behind  the  scenes.  Through  this  she  obtained  an  engagement 
with  John  B.  Doris,  who  took  a  fancy  to  her,  and  he  gave  her 
a  part.  She  was  successful  in  it,  but  returned  to  her  newspaper 
for  a  time.  The  following  year  she  went  on  the  stage  for  good, 
and  gradually  achieved  considerable  fame.  She  appeared  in  "In 
Gay  New  York"  and  in  a  revival  of  "The  Still  Alarm."  She  was 
featured  in  the  original  production  of  "The  Bowery  After  Dark," 
and  starred  in  "The  Colorado  Waif,"  and  "New  York  Day  by 
Day."  In  1904  the  Hanlon  Brothers  featured  Miss  Gold  in  their 
"Superba."  Klaw  and  Erlanger  then  signed  her  to  originate  the 
part  of  Desdemona  with  Mclntyre  and  Heath  in  "The  Ham 
Tree."  The  season  of  1906  she  continued  with  "The  Ham  Tree" 
company,  and  during  the  engagement  of  that  company  in  New 
York  her  work  attracted  much  attention,  especially  her  singing 
and  dancing.  Miss  Gold  is  the  wife  of  A.  W.  Cross  manager 
for  Walker  Whiteside  and  Lawrence  Evart.  She  is  the  first  of 


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her  family  to  be  associated  with  the  stage.  Miss  Gold  is  a 
native  of  New  York  State  and  makes  her  home  in  New  York 
City  at  417  East  Eighty-fifth  street.  She  has  a  summer  resi 
dence  at  Atlantic  Highlands,  N.  J. 

GOLDEN,  Richard: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Bucksport,  Me.,  in  July,  1854,  and  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  there.  He  made  his  first  profes 
sional  appearance  when  he  was  thirteen  years  old  with  a  Mexi 
can  circus  known  as  Allie's  Allied  Shows,  but  his  real  stage 
debut  was  made  in  1876  when  he  joined  Edward  E.  Rice's  forces 
and  played  the  fore  legs  of  the  heifer,  Henry  E.  Dixey  being  the 
hind  legs,  in  the  original  production  of  "Evangeline."  He  was 
afterward  promoted  to  play  the  Policeman  and  Le  Blanc.  He 
was  with  Mr.  Rice  many  seasons,  and  then  undertook  the  man 
agement  of  the  Dora  Wiley  Opera  Company,  of  which  his  wife, 
from  whom  he  was  divorced  in  1892,  was  the  star.  He  after 
ward  married  at  Cohoes,  N.  Y.,  Miss  Katherine  Kittleman.  Mr. 
Golden  produced  "Old  Jed  Prouty,"  of  which  he  was  part  author, 
in  1889,  and  has  since  played  the  part  about  three  thousand 
times.  In  1894  Mr.  Golden  was  joint  star  with  Miss  Pauline 
Hall  in  a  revival  of  "The  Princess  of  Trebizonde"  at  Harrigan's 
Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1898-9  Mr.  Golden  appeared 
with  Alice  Neilsen  in  "The  Fortune  Teller,"  and  the  following 
season  he  played  the  part  of  the  Steward  of  the  Duke  of  Bur 
gundy  in  "Princess  Chic,"  of  which  Miss  Marguerite  De  Silva 
was  the  star.  The  season  of  1905-6  he  appeared  in  "The  Tour 
ists,"  and  "The  Bad  Samaritan."  The  fall  of  1907  Mr.  Golden 
was  seen  in  "The  Other  House"  at  the  Majestic  Theatre,  New 
York.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs  and  the  Green  Room  Club, 
New  York.  His  home  is  at  Port  Washington,  N.  Y. 

GOODRICH,  Miss  Edna  (Bessie  Edna  Stephens)  : 

Actress,  was  born  at  Logansport,  Ind.,  in  1883.  Her  father 
was  A.  S.  Stephens,  a  coffee  merchant.  When  Miss  Edna  was 
only  two  years  old  the  family  moved  to  Chicago,  where  her 
father  embarked  in  business  and  became  prosperous.  Miss  Good 
rich  was  educated  in  Chicago,  and  was  graduated  from  the  Hyde 
Park  High  School.  Having  made  several  appearances  as  an  ama 
teur,  she  determined  to  adopt  the  stage  as  a  profession  and,  go 
ing  to  New  York,  obtained  an  engagement  at  the  Casino  Theatre 
there,  where  she  made  her  first  professional  appearance  as  one 
of  the  sextette  in  "Plorodora."  Unlike  hundreds  of  others,  how 
ever,  Miss  Goodrich  does  not  claim  to  have  been  one  of  the 
original  six.  Miss  Goodrich  next  went  with  the  Anna  Held  com- 


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pany  and  became  prominent  through  announcements  that  she 
was  the  highest  salaried  "show  girl"  on  the  American  stage.  It 
was  with  Miss  Held  that  Miss  Goodrich  got  the  opportunity  to 
play  her  first  real  part,  that  of  Madame  Recamier  the  famous 
Parisian  beauty,  in  the  musical  comedy  "Mile.  Napoleon."  Miss 
Goodrich  then  went  to  Europe  and  studied  dramatic  art  for 
half  a  year.  On  her  return  she  was  engaged  by  Charles  Froh- 
man  as  understudy  to  Hattie  Williams  in  "The  Rollicking  Girl," 
playing  the  part  several  times  in  support  of  Sam  Bernard.  After 
five  months'  tuition  under  well-known  retired  actresses  Miss 
Goodrich  determined  to  enter  the  field  of  legitimate  comedy.  She 
bought  the  rights  in  "The  Genius  and  the  Model,"  a  comedy  by 
Wiliam  C.  and  Cecil  de  Mille,  and  made  the  production  herself, 
starring  jointly  with  Harry  Woodruff  in  the  fall  of  1905.  In 
the  spring  of  1906  Nat  C.  Goodwin  purchased  the  comedy  and 
engaged  Miss  Goodrich  to  play  her  original  part  of  Neil  Graham, 
the  artist's  model.  He  renamed  the  play  "The  Genius,"  and 
Miss  Goodrich  first  appeared  as  his  leading  woman  on  its  pro 
duction  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  April  20,  1906.  Continuing  as  Mr. 
Goodwin's  leading  woman,  Miss  Goodrich  first  appeared  as  Phyl 
lis  in  "When  We  Were  Twenty-one"  at  Kansas  City  on  June  9, 
1906.  The  fall  season  of  1906  Miss  Goodrich  was  featured  in 
support  of  Nat  C.  Goodwin  in  "The  Genius"  at  the  Bijou  Thea 
tre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  supported  Nat  Good 
win  as  leading  woman  in  repertoire. 

GOODWIN,  J.  Cheever: 

Playwright,  was  Boston  born  and,  as  he  is  wont  to  put  it, 
brown  bred.  He  was  educated  at  Harvard  University  and  was 
graduated  from  that  institution  with  the  class  of  1873.  Soon, 
after  leaving  college  he  took  up  amateur  dramatic  work,  and 
from  that  gained  such  a  liking  for  the  legitimate  stage  that  he 
became  a  member  of  a  company  headed  by  the  elder  Sothern 
which  made  a  tour  of  America,  Mr.  Goodwin  supporting  the  emi 
nent  English  actor  in  light  comedy  parts  in  such  plays  as  "Our 
American  Cousin,"  "Home,"  and  "The  Hornet's  Nest"  for  a  sea 
son.  He  soon,  however,  gave  up  playing  for  writing  plays,  and 
almost  his  first  work  in  this  line  was  the  writing  of  the  librettos 
for  all  the  comic  operas  with  which  the  late  Alice  Gates  dis 
placed  the  regime  of  the  Lydia  Thompson  Burlesquers  type  of 
musical  entertainment.  Mr.  Goodwin  is  best  known  as  the  writer 
of  the  books  of  "Evangeline,"  the  extravaganza  for  which  Ed 
ward  E.  Rice  wrote  the  music,  and  which,  first  produced  at 
Niblo's  Garden,  New  York,  in  the  summer  of  1874,  is  still  played 
on  two  continents;  "Wang,"  which  made  De  Wolf  Hopper  a 


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star,  and  "The  Merry  Monarch,"  which  did  a  similar  service 
for  Francis  Wilson.  The  scores  for  these  comic  operas  were 
written  by  the  late  Woolson  Morse.  Mr.  Goodwin  wrote  the  book 
for  the  American  and  London  musical  success  "Lost,  Strayed  or 
Stolen,"  for  which  Mr.  Morse  also  wrote  the  score.  Besides 
these  Mr.  Goodwin  has  written  over  fifty  plays  and  librettos. 
In  the  meantime  he  has  dabbled  in  finance  and  politics  and 
served,  for  half  a  dozen  years,  as  private  secretary  to  ex-Con 
troller  Theodore  W.  Myers  of  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of 
The  Strollers,  the  American  Dramatic  Club  and  the  Elks.  He 
is  still  engaged  in  playwriting. 

GOODWIN,  Nathaniel  Carl,  Jr.: 

Actor,  best  known  as  Nat  Goodwin,  was  born  in  Boston 
July  25,  1857.  While  he  was  a  schoolboy  and  a  student  at  the 
Little  Blue  Academy  in  Farmington,  Me.,  he  was  noted  for  his 
ability  as  a  mimic.  He  was  graduated  by  the  college  in  1873 
and  became  a  clerk  in  the  dry  goods  store  of  Wellington 
Brothers  in  Boston.  After  two  months  there  he  became  a  clerk 
in  an  upholsterer's  shop.  He  remained  there  a  month,  and  then 
entered  upon  his  stage  career.  His  chief  desire,  from  the  day 
he  had  first  recognized  his  prowess  as  a  mimic,  had  been  to  be 
an  actor,  and  through  his  college  and  clerkship  days  he  had 
studied  Shakespeare  and  taken  lessons  in  dramatic  art.  When 
he  left  the  upholsterer  he  gave  dramatic  readings  for  a  time 
and  then  obtained  a  place  at  Niblo's  Garden,  New  York,  as  gen 
eral  utility  man.  He  next  went  to  the  Boston  Museum  to  fill  a 
like  place.  He  made  his  first  legitimate  appearance,  and  fainted 
for  the  first  and  last  time  in  his  life,  at  the  Providence  Opera 
House  with  William  Henderson's  stock  company.  He  was  cast 
for  the  part  of  Sir  George  Hounslow  in  a  melodrama,  "The  Bot 
tle."  When  his  cue  came  he  rushed  to  the  stage,  raised  his  arm 
and  opened  his  lips  to  speak.  But  no  sound  came  from  them. 
He  was  so  overcome  by  stage  fright  that  he  dropped  uncon 
scious.  He  next  found  himself  on  a  train — wig,  grease  paint, 
stage  costume  and  all — bound  for  Boston.  This  experience  for 
a  time  banished  all  thoughts  of  a  stage  career,  and  Mr.  Good 
win  again  became  a  clerk,  this  time  in  a  shoe  store.  But  the 
old  longing  soon  reasserted  itself,  and  he  resumed  giving  his 
mimicry  at  public  and  private  entertainments.  The  late  Stuart 
Robson  happened  to  see  him  at  one  of  these  entertainments  and 
prevailed  on  John  B.  Stetson,  who  was  about  to  star  Robson  in 
"Law  in  New  York"  at  the  Howard  Athenaeum,  Boston,  to  en 
gage  Mr.  Goodwin  to  appear  as  a  shoeblack  and  give  his  imita 
tions  of  well-known  actors,  at  a  salary  of  five  dollars  a  week. 


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He  was  so  successful  in  this,  really  his  debut,  that  Joseph  Brad 
ford  wrote  a  sketch  for  him,  "The  Rehearsal,"  in  which  he 
again  appeared  at  the  Athenaeum.  In  1875  he  made  his  first 
New  York  appearance  in  a  speaking  part  at  Tony  Pastor's 
Theatre.  Soon  afterward  he  appeared  with  Miss  Minnie  Palmer 
at  the  Fourteenth  Street  Theatre.  He  played  Captain  Crosstree 
in  "Black-Eyed  Susan,"  and  was  then  engaged  by  Edward  E. 
Rice  to  create  the  part  of  Captain  Dietrich  in  "Evangeline."  Ho 
did  so  well  in  this  that  he  was  soon  playing  the  leading  part, 
that  of  Le  Blanc,  which  he  continued  to  do  for  three  years. 
After  playing  the  Pirate  Chief  in  Rice's  production  of  "The  Cor 
sair,"  and  in  "Pippins,"  a  burlesque  by  J.  Cheever  Goodwin,  he 
organized  in  1877  a  company  under  the  name  of  the  Froliques, 
and  with  this  he  appeared  for  the  next  three  years,  presenting 
among  other  plays  "Cruets,"  "Hobbies,"  "Rambles,"  and  "Rip 
ples."  In  1880  he  made  a  tour  with  "The  Member  for  Slocum." 
In  1882  Mr.  Goodwin  again  became  his  own  manager,  and  in 
the  next  few  years  produced  many  of  the  Gilbert  and  Sullivan 
operas:  "Confusion,"  "The  Skating  Rink,"  "Big  Pony,"  "Our 
selves,"  "The  Black  Flag,"  "Sparks,"  "A  Gay  Deceiver,"  "Colonel 
Tom,"  "Turned  Up,"  "A  Royal  Revenge,"  "Lend  Me  Five  Shil 
lings,"  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream,"  in  which  he  was  the 
Bottom,  and  "The  Viper  on  the  Hearth."  In  May,  1883,  he 
played  Modus  in  "The  Hunchback,"  and  the  First  Gravedigger 
in  "Hamlet"  at  the  Cincinnati  Dramatic  Festival.  About  this 
time  he  also  played  Marc  Antony  in  "Julius  Ca3sar"  at  a  benefit, 
for  Tony  Hart  in  New  York.  In  1889-90  he  produced  Henry 
Guy  Carleton's  "A  Gilded  Fool"  and  brought  out  "A  Gold  Mine" 
in  London,  and  also  played  a  cockney  part  in  "The  Bookmaker" 
under  the  management  of  George  Edwardes.  In  May,  1890,  he 
produced  for  the  first  time  at  Portland,  Ore.,  "The  Nominee,"  in 
which  he  created  one  of  the  most  successful  characters  of  his 
career,  and  which  later  had  a  long  run  at  the  Bijou  Theatre, 
New  York.  In  1896  he  was  the  Sir  Lucius  O'Trigger  in  an  all- 
star  cast  revival  of  "The  Rivals,"  and  produced  Madeleine  Lu- 
cette  Ryley's  "An  American  Citizen."  In  1898  he  produced  Clyde 
Fitch's  "Nathan  Hale,"  and  in  1899  he  went  to  London  under 
the  management  of  Charles  Frohman,  where  he  appeared  with 
his  wife,  Maxine  Elliott,  in  Clyde  Fitch's  "The  Cowboy  and  the 
Lady."  In  February,  1900,  he  produced  "When  We  Were  Twenty- 
one,"  supported  by  Miss  Elliott,  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre, 
New  York.  "Gringoire,"  "David  Garrick,"  "In  Mizzoura,"  and 
"Ambition"  were  other  plays  which  he  produced  at  this  time. 
In  twelve  years  he  had  created  thirty-one  different  characters. 
In  1901  he  made  an  elaborate  production  of  "The  Merchant  of 


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Venice,"  playing  the  role  of  Shylock,  opening  at  the  Knicker 
bocker  Theatre,  New  York,  and  taking  the  production  on  tour. 
The  same  season  he  presented  "The  Altar  of  Friendship,"  by 
Madeleine  Lucette  Ryley.  In  1903  he  played  in  "The  Usurper," 
by  I.  C.  Morris,  for  a  season.  In  1904  with  Klaw  and  Brlanger 
he  made  a  lavish  production  of  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream" 
as  the  opening  play  for  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New  York, 
his  role  being  that  of  Bottom.  In  1905-6  Mr.  Goodwin  appeared 
in  W.  W.  Jacobs's  "The  Beauty  and  the  Barge,"  Alfred  Henry 
Lewis's  "Wolfville,"  and  "The  Genius,"  formerly  "The  Genius 
and  the  Model,"  by  W.  C.  and  Cecil  de  Mille,  which  he  first 
produced  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  April  20,  1906,  and  played  at  the 
Bijou  Theatre,  New  York,  during  the  fall  season.  The  season 
of  1907-8  Mr.  Goodwin  toured  with  his  own  company  in  reper 
toire,  appearing  in  "The  Master  Hand"  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Decem 
ber  26,  1907.  Mr.  Goodwin's  first  wife  was  Eliza  Weathersby,  a 
well-known  comedy  actress,  who  died  in  1887.  In  February,  1898, 
Mr.  Goodwin  married  Maxine  Elliott,  the  well-known  actress. 
His  home  is  at  Ocean  Park,  Southern  California. 

GOULD,  Howard: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and  was  educated 
in  Boston,  Mass.,  where  he  became  call  boy  at  the  Boston  Mu 
seum.  His  first  appearance  as  an  actor  was  in  a  small  part  in 
"Davy  Crockett"  with  Frank  Mayo  on  May  30,  1881.  After  sev 
eral  seasons  in  juvenile  parts  with  the  Boston  Theatre  Stock 
Company  he  joined  James  O'Neill  and  remained  in  his  support 
more  than  five  years.  Then,  after  a  season  supporting  Maggie 
Mitchell,  Mr.  Gould  joined  the  old  Lyceum  company,  New  York, 
under  Daniel  Frohman,  supporting  E.  H.  Sothern.  He  after 
ward  played  the  leading  roles  in  the  Sothern  plays  on  the  road. 
In  1902  he  was  seen  in  "Notre  Dame"  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New 
York,  and  in  1906  he  played  lachimo  in  "Cymbeline"  with  Viola 
Allen.  His  last  engagement  was  with  Walker  Whiteside  in  "The 
Magic  Melody." 

GRAHAM,  Robert  Emmet: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Baltimore  December  17,  1858.  He  first 
entered  the  theatrical  profession  as  call  boy  at  the  Holliday 
Street  Theatre,  Baltimore,  at  the  age  of  thirteen,  the  manager  of 
the  theatre  being  his  uncle.  He  was  given  four  positions  in  the 
company — call  boy,  utility  man  captain  of  supers  and  librarian 
— for  each  of  which  he  received  six  dollars  a  week.  Thus,  as 
a  boy,  his  salary  was  twenty-four  dollars  a  week.  His  father 
was  dead  and  he  was  the  only  support  of  his  family.  Mr.  Gra- 


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ham's  first  speaking  part  was  that  of  a  messenger  in  "The  Old 
Man  of  the  Mountain."  He  had  to  rush  into  a  tent  and  shout: 
"My  lord,  there  is  a  courier  without!"  He  was  so  nervous  that 
his  speech  was  inaudible.  The  gallery  boys  shouted:  "Louder!" 
The  entire  gallery  took  up  the  cry.  Graham  shouted  the  lines 
at  the  top  of  his  boyish  voice  and  burst  into  tears.  Then  to 
the  "gods"  he  said:  "I  hope  that's  loud  enough!"  and  rushed 
off  the  stage.  Two  years  later  he  was  in  Cincinnati  as  general 
utility  man.  The  comedian  was  missing  one  night,  and  he  took 
the  part  of  Pierot  in  "The  Pearl  of  Savoy"  and  became  prin 
cipal  comedian  with  Maggie  Mitchell  when  he  was  seventeen. 
Mr.  Graham  made  his  first  big  success  as  Clorinda  in  "The 
Magic  Slipper"  at  the  Fourteenth  Street  Theatre,  New  York,  in 
1879.  He  starred  with  Minnie  Palmer  as  Tony  in  "My  Sweet 
heart"  from  1881  to  1883.  In  1886  he  opened  in  Philadelphia  in 
"The  Little  Tycoon"  and  played  General  Knickerbocker  in  that 
opera  about  two  thousand  times.  His  next  pronounced  success 
was  in  "The  Sea  King"  under  the  management  of  C.  H.  Yale.  Mr. 
Graham  originated  the  part  of  Cyrus  Gilfain,  the  millionaire, 
in  "Florodora"  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1900  and 
played  it  a  year  and  a  half  in  New  York  and  two  years  on 
tour.  He  then  played  in  "Piff,  Paff,  Pouf."  The  fall  season  of 
1906  he  played  in  "The  Lady's  Maid"  at  the  Casino  Theatre, 
New  York.  Mr.  Graham  created  in  this  country  the  part  of 
Popoff  in  "The  Merry  Widow,"  produced  at  the  New  Amster 
dam  Theatre,  New  York,  October  21,  1907.  He  is  a  member  of 
The  Lambs. 

GREENE,  Clay  Meredith: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  San  Francisco  March  12,  1850,  and 
was  educated  at  Santa  Clara  College  and  the  University  of  Cali 
fornia.  He  was  a  stock  broker  and  journalist  when  he  began 
writing  for  the  stage  in  1883,  since  which  time  he  has  written 
many  plays.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs,  of  which  he  was 
president  twelve  successive  terms;  the  Green  Room,  the  Larch- 
mont  Yacht  and  the  Manhasset  Bay  Yacht  clubs.  His  home  is 
at  Bayside,  Long  Island,  N.  Y. 

GREENE,  Miss  Evie  (Mrs.  Richard  Temple,  Jr.)  : 

Light  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  at  Portsmouth,  Eng 
land,  and  made  her  debut  as  a  dancer  in  comic  opera  at  the 
age  of  fourteen.  Discovering  that  she  had  vocal  talent  she 
became  understudy  to  a  prima  donna,  and  a  year  later  played 
leading  parts  on  tour  in  musical  comedies.  When  she  was  seven 
teen  years  old  she  was  a  provincial  star,  sustaining  the  title 


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roles  in  "The  Gay  Parisienne,"  "The  New  Barmaid,"  and  "Billy." 
She  made  her  appearance  in  London  in  the  romantic  opera 
"L'Amour  Mouille"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre  in  1898.  Her  next 
important  role  in  London  was  Dolores  in  "Florodora"  at  the 
Lyric  in  1899.  Then  she.  entered  into  a  contract  with  George 
Edwardes  and  has  been  playing  under  his  management  ever 
since.  She  created  the  role  of  the  Duchess  of  Dantzic  at  the 
Lyric  in  1903,  and  at  the  end  of  the  long  run  of  the  opera  in 
London  she  played  it  through  the  provinces  and  in  America. 
She  was  last  seen  in  the  prima  donna  part  in  Sardou  and 
Felix's  new  opera,  "Les  Merveilleuses"  at  Daly's  Theatre,  Lon 
don. 

GREET,  Ben: 

Actor-manager,  was  born  on  a  training  ship  in  the  Thames, 
of  which  his  father,  Captain  William  Greet  of  the  Royal  British 
Navy,  wras  commander,  and  was  educated  at  a  naval  school.  His 
introduction  to  the  stage  was  as  a  member  of  J.  W.  Gordon's 
stock  company  at  Southampton,  England.  Then  he  played  for 
three  years  with  Sarah  Thome  at  Margate.  He  was  the  original 
Dashitall  in  "My  Sweetheart"  with  Minnie  Palmer,  and  was 
with  Mary  Anderson  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre  in  London  in  1885. 
He  afterward  played  with  Lawrence  Barrett  at  the  same  thea 
tre  and  then  at  the  Haymarket  with  Beerbohm  Tree  in  "Jim  the 
Penman."  Then  he  ventured  into  management,  taking  a  tour 
ing  company  into  the  provinces.  He  was  successful  and  has 
had  from  ten  to  fifteen  companies  on  the  road  in  England  and 
America  during  a  season.  Many  of  the  leading  London  suc 
cesses  were  produced  by  him  in  the  provinces.  He  was  one  of 
the  pioneers  of  pastoral  plays,  and  for  a  score  of  years  he  has 
presented  Shakespeare  in  the  open  air  in  England  and  of  late 
in  the  United  States.  He  produced  "Everyman"  in  London  and 
brought  it  to  this  country,  where  it  proved  a  great  success.  He 
is  the  founder  and  proprietor  of  a  dramatic  training  school  in 
London. 

GREY,  Miss  Katherine: 

Was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  her  parents  being  John  T. 
and  Katie  R.  Best,  and  her  grandfather  Captain  Francis  Read, 
a  well-known  pioneer  of  the  days  of  '49.  She  made  her  first 
stage  appearance  with  Augustin  Daly's  company.  Her  first  lead 
ing  part,  and  the  first  which  brought  favorable  notice  to  her, 
was  that  of  Helen  Berry  in  "Shore  Acres"  with  James  A.  Herne. 
Since  then  she  has  played  in  "Shenandoah,"  "All  the  Comforts 
of  Home,"  "Jane,"  "The  New  South,"  "New  Blood,"  "The  Jilt," 


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"Our  Bachelors,"  "Roger  La  Honte,"  "The  Senator,"  "Napoleon," 
"Arms  and  the  Man,"  "A  Parisian  Romance,"  "Dr.  Jekyll  and 
Mr.  Hyde,"  "The  King  of  Peru,"  "The  Royal  Box,"  "The  Man 
with  a  Past,"  "His  First  Offence,"  "Niobe,"  "The  Superfluous 
Husband,"  "His  Little  Dodge,"  "Rupert  of  Hentzau,"  "A  South 
ern  Romance,"  "The  First  Born,"  "The  First  Violin,"  "Cyrano 
de  Bergerac,"  "The  Greatest  Thing  in  the  World,"  "Men  and 
Women,"  "The  Last  Appeal,"  "The  Ninety  and  Nine,"  "Petti 
coats  and  Bayonets,"  "The  Best  of  Friends,"  "The  Other  Girl," 
"The  Gay  Lord  Quex,"  "When  We  Were  Twenty-one,"  "The  Girl 
I  Left  Behind  Me,"  "Charley's  Aunt,"  "Incog.,"  "The  Man  from 
Mexico,"  "My  Friend  from  India,"  "Gloriana,"  "Captain  Lettar- 
blair,"  "Secret  Service,"  "Hearts  Aflame,"  "Business  Is  Busi 
ness,"  "The  Firm  of  Cunningham,"  "The  Governor  of  Kentucky," 
"A  Scrap  of  Paper,"  "Wolfville,"  "You  Never  Can  Tell,"  "Can 
dida,"  "The  Redskin,"  "The  Love  That  Blinds,"  "The  Christian," 
"A  Lady  of  Quality,"  "The  Only  Way,"  "The  White  Heather," 
"Facing  the  Music,"  "Too  Much  Johnson,"  and  "Mrs.  Dane's 
Defence."  She  has  been  leading  woman  for  Richard  Mansfield, 
Charles  Coghlan,  James  K.  Hackett,  Henry  Dixey,  William  H. 
Crane,  N.  C.  Goodwin  and  Arnold  Daly.  She  toured  in  "The 
Reckoning"  the  season  of  1907-8. 

GRISEL,  Louis  Racine: 

Actor,  was  born  near  New  Castle,  Del.,  November  26,  1849, 
being  the  son  of  Susan  Amanda  Racine,  a  Parisian,  and  Louis 
Theophile  Grisel,  a  Swiss.  His  mother  acted  character  parts 
under  the  stage  names  of  Marie  Le  Gros  and  Mrs.  Ed.  Clifford. 
His  first  appearance  on  the  stage  was  at  Deagle's  Theatre,  St. 
Louis,  as  Landry  in  "La  Tour  de  Nesle"  in  1873.  The  same  year 
he  appeared  as  Traddles  in  "Little  Emily"  with  Stuart  Robsou. 
at  the  Olympic  Theatre,  St.  Louis.  After  several  years  of  road 
management,  in  1883  he  joined  Miss  Fanny  Davenport's  com 
pany,  playing  the  part  of  Dr.  Loreck  in  her  initial  production 
of  "Fedora"  at  the  old  Lyceum  (Fourteenth  Street)  Theatre, 
New  York.  He  next  became  stage  manager  of  the  New  Park 
Theatre,  now  the  Herald  Square,  New  York,  for  the  Frohman 
Brothers'  production  of  "The  Stranglers  of  Paris,"  written  by 
David  Belasco,  also  playing  the  part  of  Captain  Guerin.  Later 
he  played  the  role  of  Mons.  Claude,  Prefect  of  Police,  in  the 
same  play.  He  was  a  member  of  Madame  Ristori's  company  on 
her  farewell  tour  in  America  in  1884-5.  For  several  summers 
thereafter  he  was  stage  manager  of  J.  H.  McVicker's  Theatre, 
Chicago,  for  the  first  production  of  what  is  now  called  "Shore 
Acres,"  then  known  as  "Uncle  Nat,"  with  James  A.  Herne  in  the 


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title  role,  and  also  for  one  of  the  earlier  plays  of  Augustus 
Thomas,  "New  Blood."  In  1889-90  he  toured  the  United  States 
as  Uncle  Joe  in  J.  K.  Emmett's  play  of  that  name,  and  was  also 
in  1889  a  member  of  Mrs.  Langtry's  company  at  the  Fifth  Ave 
nue  Theatre,  New  York.  At  the  opening  of  the  Castle  Square 
Theatre,  by  Henry  W.  Savage  in  Boston,  Mr.  Grisel  became 
stage  manager.  Thereafter  he  played  the  roles  created  by  W.  H. 
Thompson  in  "Love's  Young  Dream,"  and  "A  Family  Circle," 
under  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman.  He  has  played  re 
cently  in  "The  Girl  from  Kay's,"  "A  Wife  Without  a  Smile," 
and  "Forty-five  Minutes  from  Broadway."  October  28,  1907,  he 
appeared  as  Jonas  Leech  in  "Artie"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New 
York.  His  wife  is  an  actress,  her  stage  name  being  Mary 
(Mamie)  Johnstone. 

GKISMER,  Joseph  Rhode: 

Actor,  playwright  and  manager,  was  born  in  Albany,  N.  Y.f 
November  4,  1849.  After  graduating  from  the  Albany  Boys' 
Academy  at  the  age  of  fifteen  he  enlisted  in  a  New  York  regi 
ment  and  went  to  the  front  to  fight  for  the  cause  of  the  Union. 
He  was  in  active  service  until  the  close  of  the  Civil  War,  when 
he  returned  to  Albany  and  went  into  commercial  business.  Join 
ing  the  Histrionic  Amateur  Dramatic  Club,  he  acquired  a  taste 
for  theatrical  life,  and  made  his  first  professional  appearance  in 
Albany  in  1870.  Three  years  later  he  was  leading  man  at  the 
Grand  Opera  House,  Cincinnati,  a  position  he  occupied  for  years, 
playing  all  the  leading  parts  in  support  of  such  stars  as  E.  L. 
Davenport,  Charlotte  Cushman,  Laura  Keene,  Edwin  Adams, 
Charles  Fechter,  Charles  Mathews,  Lawrence  Barrett,  John  Mc- 
Cullough  and  Adelaide  Nielson.  He  also  played  in  hundreds  of 
stock  plays  of  the  period.  Mr.  Grismer  went  to  San  Francisco 
in  1877  as  leading  man  of  the  Grand  Opera  House,  afterward  oc 
cupying  the  same  position  at  the  California  Theatre  and  the 
Baldwin.  During  this  time  he  made  dramatizations  of  "Monte 
Cristo"  and  "Called  Back"  and,  having  married  Phrebe  Davies 
in  1883,  he  made  up  a  repertoire  with  these  and  other  plays,  or 
ganized  a  company  and  appeared  as  joint  star  with  his  wife 
until  1898.  Meantime  he  and  Clay  M.  Greene  wrote  "The  New 
South,"  which  ran  three  years.  In  1898  he  rewrote  and  pro 
duced  "  'Way  Down  East,"  a  play  of  which  William  A.  Brady 
and  he  are  the  joint  owners,  and  which  has  had  a  phenomenal 
run,  lasing  over  nine  seasons.  Since  then  Mr.  Grismer  has  been 
connected  with  Mr.  Brady  who,  as  a  boy,  had  been  a  member 
of  his  first  company,  in  1884,  in  this  and  many  other  plays, 
and  they  have  produced  successively  "Fifi,"  "Aunt  Hanna," 


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"Betsy  Ross,"  "A  Stranger  in  a  Strange  Land,"  "Siberia,"  "Sky 
Farm,"  and  "As  Ye  Sow."  Their  latest  production  is  "The  Man 
of  the  Hour."  Besides  his  theatrical  interests  Mr.  Grismer  is  a 
director  in  the  Commercial  Trust  Company,  treasurer  of  the 
Gulf  Fisheries  Company,  president  of  the  Actors'  Order  of 
Friendship,  vice-president  of  the  Actors'  Fund  and  a  member 
of  The  Lambs,  The  Players,  American  Dramatists',  Green  Room, 
Bohemian,  Larchmont  Yacht  and  Manhasset  Yacht  clubs,  and  a 
lieutenant  in  the  Old  Guard.  Mr.  Grismer's  business  address  is 
New  York  Theatre  Building,  New  York. 

GROSSMITH,  George,  Jr.: 

Actor,  the  eldest  son  of  George  Grossmith  and  nephew  of 
Weedon  Grossmith,  was  born  in  London  and  was  educated  at 
the  University  College  School  and  in  Paris.  His  first  important  en 
gagement  was  in  London  in  the  production  of  "Morocco  Bound" 
in  1893.  The  following  year  he  appeared  at  the  Gaiety  in  "The 
Shop  Girl."  He  had  prominent  parts  in  "The  Messenger  Boy," 
"The  Toreador"  and  other  London  productions,  and  in  1904-5 
he  was  a  member  of  Edna  May's  company  which  played  "The 
School  Girl"  in  New  York.  In  1908  he  supported  Hattie  Will 
iams  in  "Fluffy  Ruffles."  He  is  part  author  of  "Great  Caesar," 
"The  Gay  Pretenders,"  "Gulliver's  Travels,"  "The  Love  Birds," 
"The  Spring  Chicken,"  "Rogues  and  Vagabonds,"  and  "Noah's 
Ark."  He  married  Adelaide  Astor,  a  sister  of  Letty  Lind,  of 
the  Gaiety  Theatre,  London. 

GROSSMITH,  Lawrence: 

Actor,  was  born  in  London,  England,  in  1877,  being  the  son 
of  George  Grossmith,  the  actor  and  entertainer.  He  was  edu 
cated  at  St.  Paul's  College,  the  London  University  School  and 
at  Shrewsbury,  and  was  employed  as  a  mechanical  engineer  at 
the  engineering  works  of  Stothert  &  Pitt  in  Bath.  He  remained 
with  that  firm  two  and  a  half  years  and  then  made  his  first 
stage  appearance  in  1896,  playing  with  Arthur  Chudleigh  at  the 
Court  Theatre,  London,  devoting  the  afternoons  to  the  study  of 
painting.  Until  1901  he  appeared  solely  in  comedy,  playing  at 
the  West  End  Theatre,  London,  under  the  managements  of  Ar 
thur  Bourchier,  Charles  Hawtrey  and  Beerbohm  Tree.  He 
came  to  America  in  1901  with  Mrs.  Langtry,  touring  the  United 
States  for  six  months.  He  returned  to  London  to  play  the  title 
role  in  "Shock-headed  Peter"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  and  was 
subsequently  seen  in  "The  Love  Birds,"  a  musical  comedy  by 
his  brother,  George  Grossmith,  Jr.,  produced  at  the  Savoy  Thea 
tre  in  1904.  The  season  of  1905-6  he  appeared  in  "The  White 


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Chrysanthemum"  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  and  in  "The  Girl 
Behind  the  Counter."  The  season  of  1906-7  Mr.  Grossmith  ap 
peared  in  "About  Town"  with  Lew  Fields  at  the  Herald  Square 
Theatre,  New  York.  Mr.  Grossmith  married  Miss  Coralie  Blythe 
June  2,  1904.  His  favorite  pastime  is  portrait  painting. 

GROSSMITH,  Weedon: 

Actor,  a  younger  brother  of  George  Grossmith,  was  born  in 
London  and  was  educated  at  Simpson's  School,  Hampstead.  He 
attended  also  the  West  London  School  of  Art.  He  is  a  success 
ful  portrait  painter  and  has  frequently  exhibited  paintings  at 
the  Royal  Academy  and  Grosvenor  Gallery.  Adopting  the  stage 
as  a  profession,  he  joined  the  company  of  Rosina  Yokes  in  1888 
and  came  with  it  to  the  United  States.  On  returning  to  Lon 
don  he  made  an  unsuccessful  appearance  in  "Woodstock's  Little 
Game,"  and  returned  to  the  studio  in  disgust.  Sir  Henry  Irving, 
however,  offered  the  part  of  Jacques  Strop  in  "Robert  Macaire" 
to  him,  and  he  was  so  successful  in  this  that  Richard  Mansfield, 
then  just  beginning  his  career  as  a  star,  offered  to  him  a  part 
in  "Prince  Karl"  which  was  running  at  the  Globe  Theatre,  Lon 
don.  At  the  Haymarket  he  distinguished  himself  as  Percy  Pal- 
freman  in  "Wealth."  After  that  he  had  great  success  in  "The 
Cabinet  Minister,"  "The  Volcano,"  and  "A  Pantomime  Rehear 
sal."  In  1894-6  he  was  manager  and  lessee  of  the  Vaudeville 
Theatre,  London,  where  "The  New  Boy"  ran  for  a  year  and  a 
half,  and  he  produced  a  play  written  by  himself,  called  "The 
Night  of  the  Party,"  in  the  Avenue  Theatre  in  1901,  and  then 
made  a  tour  of  the  United  States  with  it,  playing  a  long  season 
at  the  Princess  Theatre,  New  York.  In  1904  he  appeared  in 
"The  Lady  of  Leeds,"  and  in  1905  in  "The  Duffer,"  a  play  writ 
ten  by  himself.  In  1895  Mr.  Grossmith  married  May  Palfrey,  of 
London.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Beefsteak,  Garrick,  Savage 
and  Art  Students'  clubs,  London,  and  The  Lambs  and  The  Play 
ers,  New  York.  His  home  is  at  1  Bedford  square,  London,  W.  C. 

GRTJNDY,  Sydney: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Manchester,  England,  March  23, 
1848,  being  the  son  of  the  late  Sydney  Grundy,  ex-Mayor  of 
Manchester.  After  leaving  Owens  College  he  practised  as  a  bar 
rister  in  Manchester  from  1869  to  1876.  His  first  effort  as  a 
dramatic  author  was  a  comedietta,  "A  Little  Change,"  written 
in  1872  and  produced  by  Buckstone  at  the  Haymarket  in  Lon 
don,  the  Kendals  playing  the  principal  roles.  His  first  important 


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play  was  "Mammon,"  produced  in  1887.  This  was  followed  by 
"The  Snowball,"  "In  Honor  Bound,"  "The  Vicar  of  Bray,"  "A 
Fool's  Paradise,"  "The  Head  of  Romulus,"  "Man  Proposes," 
"Sympathetic  Souls,"  "The  Glass  of  Fashion,"  "The  Queen's 
Favorite,"  "The  Silver  Shield,"  "Clito,"  "The  Wife's  Sacrifice," 
"The  Bells  of  Haslemere,"  "The  Arabian  Nights,"  "The  Pompa 
dour,"  "The  Dean's  Daughter,"  "A  White  Lie,"  "Esther  San- 
fraz,"  "Haddon  Hall,"  "Sowing  the  Wind,"  "An  Old  Jew,"  "A 
Bunch  of  Violets,"  "A  Village  Priest,"  "The  New  Woman,' 
"Slaves  of  the  Ring,"  "The  Late  Mr.  Castello,"  "The  Greatest 
of  These,"  "A  Marriage  of  Convenience,"  "The  Silver  Key,"  "The 
Musketeers,"  "The  Degenerates,"  "The  Black  Tulip,"  "A  Debt  of 
Honor,"  "Frocks  and  Frills,"  and  "Business  Is  Business,"  nearly 
all  of  which  have  been  seen  in  this  country. 

GTJILBERT,  Madame  Yvette: 

Vaudeville  singer,  was  born  in  Paris,  her  father  being  a 
wealthy  mercnant.  She  was  educated  in  a  convent  until  her 
father  lost  his  fortune  when,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  she  went  to 
work  to  help  support  her  family.  She  helped  her  mother  i:i 
an  embroidery  shop  which  the  latter  opened  in  Paris,  but  the 
two  women  were  unlucky.  Then  Yvette  became  a  dressmaker, 
but  her  health  suffered  and  she  sought  a  place  in  the  Paris 
theatres.  She  was  unsuccessful,  and  then  tried  reporting.  She 
forsook  the  pen  to  try  for  the  stage  again.  This  time  she  went 
to  a  cafe  concert  hall  and  was  successful.  Her  chansons  soon 
became  the  talk  of  Paris,  and  have  since  been  one  of  the  marked 
features  of  the  amusement  world.  She  is  now  as  well  known  to 
American  vaudeville  patrons  as  she  is  in  Paris  and  London. 
The  season  of  1906-7  she  made  a  tour  of  this  country  in  con 
junction  with  Albert  Chevalier,  the  English  comedian  and  singer 
of  coster  songs. 

HACKETT,  James  Keteltas : 

Actor  and  manager,  was  born  on  Wolfe  Island,  Ontario,  Can 
ada,  September  6,  1869.  His  father,  James  Henry  Hackett,  was 
a  famous  American  actor,  and  his  mother,  Clara  C.  Hackett,  a 
popular  actress.  The  elder  Hackett  died  when  James  K.  was 
only  two  years  old.  The  boy  inherited  a  desire  for  the  stage, 
and  when  he  was  seven  years  old  recited  Shakespeare's  "Seven 
Ages"  in  public.  As  a  youth  Mr.  Hackett  became  well  known  as 
a  clever  amateur  actor,  and  he  was  the  leading  spirit  in  the  the 
atricals  at  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1891.  For  less  than  a  year  he  studied  law. 


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Then  he  became  an  actor,  making  his  first  professional  appear 
ance  in  the  part  of  Frangois  in  "The  Broken  Seal"  with  A.  M. 
Palmer's  stock  company  at  the  Park  Theatre,  Philadelphia, 
March  28,  1892.  After  a  short  season  as  leading  man  with  Lotta 
Mr.  Hackett  joined  Augustin  Daly's  company,  but  left  it  to  star 
during  the  season  of  1893-4  in  "The  Private  Secretary,"  "The 
Arabian  Nights,"  and  "Mixed  Pickles."  He  next  became  leading 
man  in  the  Queen's  Theatre  (Montreal)  Stock  Company,  where 
he  played  in  "Heart  and  Hand,"  "Snowball,"  "American  Money" 
and  other  comedies.  On  January  14,  1895,  he  played  the  Count 
de  Neipperg  in  the  production  of  "Madame  Sans  Gene"  at  the 
Broadway  Theatre,  New  York.  He  also  appeared  the  same  year 
in  support  of  Mrs.  James  Brown  Potter  and  Kyrle  Bellew.  Mr. 
Hackett  joined  Daniel  Frohman's  Lyceum  Theatre  company  in 
November,  1895,  making  his  first  appearance  as  Morris  Lecalle 
in  "The  Home  Secretary."  On  the  resignation  of  Herbet  Kelcey 
Mr.  Hackett  became  leading  man  of  the  company,  opening  as 
such  with  the  revival,  on  February  10,  1896,  of  "The  Prisoner 
of  Zenda."  On  November  23  of  the  same  year  Mr.  Hackett 
played  Bruce  Leslie  in  "The  Courtship  of  Leonie,"  in  which 
Mary  Mannering,  an  English  actress,  made  her  first  appearance 
in  America.  She  became  Mr.  Hackett's  wife  May  2,  1897.  With 
the  Lyceum  company  Mr.  Hackett  played  Captain  Trefuss  in 
"The  Late  Mr.  Castello,"  the  Prince  of  Wales  in  "The  First 
Gentleman  of  Europe,"  Lord  Cervasse  Carew  in  "The  Mayflower/' 
George  Lamorant  in  "The  Princess  and  the  Butterfly,"  and  Nigel 
Stanyon  in  "The  Tree  of  Knowledge."  He  began  a  starring  tour 
in  the  latter  play,  but  abandoned  it  after  his  production  of  "Ru 
pert  of  Hentzau"  in  Philadelphia  November  21,  1898.  His  next 
production  as  a  star  was  "The  Pride  of  Jennico."  The  season 
of  1905-6  he  produced  "The  Walls  of  Jericho,"  by  Alfred  Sutro, 
at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  he  being  the  leading  man  and  his  wife 
the  leading  woman.  It  proved  to  be  one  of  his  most  successful 
ventures.  Mr.  Hackett  secured  for  the  season  of  1907-8  Alfred 
Sutro's  latest  play,  "John  Glayde's  Honour,"  one  of  the  big  Lon 
don  successes.  During  the  past  few  years  Mr.  Hackett  has  gone 
into  management  on  a  large  scale,  and  to-day  he  is  one  of  the 
most  active  producing  actor-managers  in  America.  In  addition 
to  the  direction  of  his  own  tour,  the  Hackett  Theatre,  New 
York,  is  under  his  sole  management.  Mr.  Hackett  controls  the 
American  rights  of  the  English  musical  comedy  success,  "The 
Girl  Behind  the  Counter."  He  is  a  member  of  The  Players,  The 
Lambs,  New  York  Athletic,  Canadian  Camp,  and  Alpha  Delta 
Phi  clubs.  His  office  is  at  1215  Broadway;  his  home  38  East 
Thirty-third  street,  New  York. 


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HAINES,  Robert  Terrel: 

Actor,  was  born  at  Muncie,  Ind.,  February  3,  1870,  and  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  there  and  at  the  University  of 
Missouri.  He  made  his  stage  debut  in  1891  with  Robert  Down 
ing  in  the  National  Theatre,  Washington,  D.  C.,  appearing  as 
Lucius  in  "Virginius."  In  1892-3-4  he  was  in  Thomas  W.  Keene's 
company,  and  in  1894-5  with  James  O'Neill  in  "The  Count  of 
Monte  Cristo."  In  1895-6  he  played  leading  heavy  parts  in  sup 
port  of  Walker  Whiteside.  In  1896-7  he  played  Alexis  Nazimoff 
in  "Darkest  Russia,"  and  De  Neipperg  in  "Madame  Sans  Gene." 
In  1897-8  he  appeared  as  John  Nazavoe  in  "The  Cherry  Pickers." 
He  turned  his  attention  to  stock  company  work  from  189S  to 
1900,  being  the  leading  man  of  the  Shubert  Stock  Company  at 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  and  of  the  Albaugh  Stock  Company  at  the  Ly 
ceum  Theatre,  Baltimore.  The  following  season  he  supported, 
as  Don  Juan  of  Austria,  Viola  Allen  in  "In  the  Palace  of  the 
King."  His  next  engagement  was  as  leading  man  for  Mrs.  Min 
nie  Maddern  Fiske,  whom  he  supported  for  two  seasons  at  the 
Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York.  In  1902  he  created  the  part  of 
Paul  Charteris  in  Genevieve  Haines's  "Hearts  Aflame"  at  the 
Garrick  Theatre,  New  York.  In  the  following  season  he  created 
the  part  of  Prince  Kara  in  "The  Darling  of  the  Gods"  at  the 
Belasco  Theatre,  New  York,  sharing  with  Blanche  Bates  the 
honors  of  a  run  in  the  city  and  on  the  road,  which  lasted  for 
four  seasons.  In  1904-5  he  starred  in  "Once  Upon  a  Time,"  by 
Genevieve  Haines.  In  February,  1905,  he  was  especially  engaged 
to  support  Robert  Mantell  in  his  Shakespearian  revivals  in  New 
York,  playing  such  parts  as  lago,  Richmond,  De  Mauprat  and 
Laertes.  In  1905-6  he  again  played  Prince  Kara  in  "The  Darling 
of  the  Gods,"  this  time  as  a  star.  On  May  7,  1906.  he  created 
the  title  role  in  George  Broadhurst's  drama,  "The  Coward,"  at 
McVicker's  Theatre,  Chicago,  and  during  the  early  part  of  the 
season  of  1906-7  was  leading  man  with  Grace  George  in  "Clothes." 
The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  Mr.  Haines  was  seen  in  "The  Rose  of  the 
Rancho"  and  in  "The  Heart  of  Maryland"  on  tour.  He  is  a 
graduate  of  the  University  of  Missouri,  from  which  he  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.;  is  a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  fra 
ternity,  The  Lambs,  The  Players,  the  Green  Room  Club,  the 
Siwanoy  Country  Club  (Westchester,  N.  Y.),  and  the  Brooklyn 
Yacht  Club.  He  married  at  New  Orleans  March  14,  1895,  Gene 
vieve  Greville,  playwright.  His  home  is  in  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

HALE,  Miss  Helen  (Helen  Perley  Cogswell) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Elyria,  Ohio,  being  the  daughter  of 
Susan  Blanchard  and  George  Cogswell.  She  was  educated  at  the 


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216  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Cleveland  (Ohio)  public  schools  and  at  Wellesley.  Leaving  col 
lege  at  the  end  of  her  junior  year  she  made  her  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  in  August,  1902,  at  the  Tremont  Theatre,  Bos 
ton,  in  the  chorus  of  Henry  W.  Savage's  production  of  "The 
Prince  of  Pilsen,"  understudying  the  French  maid.  With  only 
five  months  of  acting  to  her  credit,  she  created  the  role  of  Lily 
Ann  Lynch  in  George  Ade's  comedy,  "Peggy  from  Paris,"  at  Wai- 
lack's  Theatre,  New  York,  playing  it  a  season  and  a  half.  Fol 
lowing  this  engagement  she  originated  the  part  of  Jenny  Wrenn 
in  Pixley  and  Luder's  "Woodland"  at  the  New  York  Theatre. 
Then  she  was  seen  in  John  Kendrick  Bangs's  "The  Man  from 
Now"  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New  York.  The  season 
of  1907-8  Miss  Hale  played  Blanche  Bailey  in  the  musical  ver 
sion  of  Richard  H.  Davis's  "The  Galloper,"  entitled  "The  Yankee 
Tourist,"  which  opened  at  the  Astor  Theatre,  New  York,  August 
12,  1907.  She  has,  during  her  brief  career  as  an  actress,  ap 
peared  only  under  the  management  of  Henry  W.  Savage.  Miss 
Hale's  favorite  recreations  are  reading  and  horseback  riding. 
Her  home  is  in  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

HALL,  Owen  (James  Davis) : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  London  in  1853.  Died  in  1906.  For 
full  biography  see  "Who's  Who  on  the  Stage,"  1906  edition. 

HALL,  Miss  Pauline  (Mrs.  George  B.  McLellan)  : 

Comedienne  and  light  opera  singer,  was  born  in  Seventh 
street,  Cincinnati,  in  1860,  her  maiden  name  being  Pauline  Fred- 
ericka  Schmidgall.  Her  father  kept  a  drug-store.  When  she  was 
fifteen  years  old  Miss  Schmidgall  made  her  first  appearance  on 
the  stage,  under  the  name  of  Pauline  Hall,  as  a  dancer  in  the 
ballet  at  Robinson's  Opera  House,  Cincinnati,  under  the  man 
agement  of  Colonel  R.  E.  J.  Miles,  and  when  he  sent  "America's 
Racing  Association  and  Hippodrome"  on  the  road  Miss  Hall  was 
the  Mazeppa  of  the  street  parade  and  drove  a  team  in  the 
chariot  races.  In  1880  Miss  Hall  joined  the  Alice  Gates  Opera 
Company  as  a  member  of  the  chorus,  occasionally  playing  small 
parts.  Then  for  a  few  months  she  was  with  Miss  Mary  Ander 
son,  playing  such  parts  as  Lady  Capulet  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet," 
and  the  Widow  Melnotte  in  "The  Lady  of  Lyons."  Next,  join 
ing  Edward  E.  Rice's  company,  she  played  in  "Horrors,"  and 
"Revels,"  and  as  Gabrielle  and  Hans  Wagner  in  "Evangeline." 
In  1882  Miss  Hall  was  with  the  J.  H.  Haverly  company,  sing 
ing  Elsa  in  "The  Merry  War."  Again  joining  the  Rice  company, 
she  created  the  part  of  Venus  in  "Orpheus  and  Eurydice"  at  the 
Bijou  Theatre,  New  York,  December  1,  1883.  The  extravaganza 


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ran  until  March  15,  1884.  The  following  May  6  she  appeared 
as  Hasson  in  a  revival  of  "Bluebeard"  at  the  same  theatre,  and 
three  months  later  was  at  Niblo's  Garden,  New  York,  as  Lore- 
soul  in  the  spectacular  extravaganza  "The  Seven  Ravens."  In 
February,  1885,  she  created  the  part  of  Ixion  in  the  burlesque 
of  the  same  name  at  the  Comedy  Theatre,  New  York.  Then  for 
a  time  she  played  a  German  part,  Prince  Orloffsky,  in  "Die- 
Fledermaus"  at  the  Thalia  Theatre,  New  York.  After  a  short 
season  with  Nat  Goodwin,  as  Oberon  in  "Bottom's  Dream,"  Miss 
Hall  joined  the  New  York  Casino  forces  under  Rudolph  Aronson, 
making  her  first  appearance  there  as  Ninon  de  L'Enclos  in 
"Nanon."  Angelo  in  "Amorita"  and  Saffi  in  "The  Gipsy  Baron" 
were  other  roles.  Miss  Hall  made  her  greatest  success  as  the 
originator  of  the  part  of  Erminie  in  the  opera  of  that  name, 
which  she  played  throughout  its  record-breaking  run  of  eight 
hundred  performances  at  the  Casino,  New  York,  and  also 
throughout  the  country.  Other  Casino  successes  in  which  Miss 
Hall  took  part  were  "Nadjy"  and  "The  Drum  Major."  She  be 
came  a  star  at  the  head  of  her  own  company  in  1892,  appearing 
as  Vivian  Earl  of  Barrenlands  in  the  comic  opera  by  C.  M.  S. 
McLellan  and  Edgar  Stillman  Kelley,  "Puritania;  or,  The  Earl 
and  the  Maid  of  Salem,"  in  Boston.  After  a  season  in  vaudeville 
Miss  Hall  joined  the  Francis  Wilson  company  in  the  spring  of 
1900,  singing  in  a  revival  of  "Erminie"  and  in  the  comic  ope 
ratic  version  of  "Cyrano  de  Bergerac."  Of  recent  years  Miss 
Hall  has  been  seen  chiefly  in  singing  specialties  in  vaudeville 
houses.  Miss  Hall  was  married  to  Edward  White,  a  Western 
mining  man,  at  St.  Louis  in  February,  1881.  She  obtained  a 
divorce  from  him  in  1889,  and  in  1891  was  married  to  George 
B.  McLellan,  a  theatrical  manager  and  brother  to  C.  M.  S.  Mc 
Lellan,  the  playwright.  Her  home  is  at  Caryl,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

HALL,  Thurston: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston  in  May,  1882.  He  appeared  in 
many  amateur  performances,  playing  Charles  Marlow  in  "She 
Stoops  to  Conquer,"  and  Clement  Hole  in  "Sweet  Lavender," 
among  other  parts.  His  first  appearance  on  the  professional 
stage  was  in  William  Morris's  production  of  "When  We  Were 
Twenty-one"  in  September,  1901.  His  first  part  of  importance 
was  that  of  Jasper  Sterrett  in  "A  Poor  Relation"  under  the 
management  of  Fred  S.  Berger,  played  in  the  season  of  1902-3. 
His  chief  success  has  been  as  Mr.  Bob  the  part  he  created  in 
"Mrs.  Wiggs  of  the  Cabbage  Patch"  under  the  management  of 
Liebler  &  Co.  He  has  played  in  stock  companies  in  Providence 
and  Rochester  during  several  summers,  and  last  summer  was 


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the  leading  man  of  the  Players'  Stock  Company  at  the  Bush 
Temple  Theatre,  Chicago.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fra 
ternity,  is  fond  of  all  outdoor  and  athletic  sports,  and  has  writ 
ten  some  verse.  His  home  is  at  Winchester,  Mass. 

HAMILTON,  Theodore: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  November  3,  1837,  and 
was  educated  in  his  native  city  and  in  New  York.  He  became  a 
reporter  on  a  metropolitan  paper  for  a  short  time,  but  the  news 
paper  business  failed  to  appeal  to  him,  and  he  made  his  first 
stage  appearance  at  the  Old  Bowery  Theatre,  playing  the  role  of 
the  Duke  of  Buckingham  in  "Richard  III"  with  James  M.  Cooko. 
After  an  engagement  with  James  M.  Wallack,  he  joined  Ford's 
company  in  Baltimore.  In  1857  he  was  seen  in  stock  in  Rich 
mond,  Va.  He  later  supported  Edwin  Forrest,  left  the  stage  tem 
porarily  to  serve  four  years  in  the  army,  and  the  season  of 
1869-70  was  leading  man  at  Booth's  Theatre,  appearing  as  Nathan 
in  "Leah  the  Forsaken"  with  Kate  Bateman.  Subsequently  he 
appeared  with  Lucille  Western,  E.  L.  Davenport  and  again  with 
J.  M.  Wallack.  He  toured  through  Australia  from  1878  until 
1883,  and  on  his  return  to  America  was  seen  in  numerous  im 
portant  productions.  In  1890  he  appeared  in  "The  Whirlwind" 
with  Helen  Dauvray,  and  two  years  later  with  Edwin  Milton 
Royle  in  "Friends."  In  1895  he  supported  Stuart  Robson  in 
"Mrs.  Ponderbury's  Past,"  and  the  year  following  played  the 
title  role  in  "Pudd'nhead  Wilson."  The  season  of  1900-1  Mr. 
Hamilton  appeared  in  "The  Pride  of  Jennico,"  and  "Don  Caesar's 
Return,"  with  James  K.  Hackett.  The  season  of  1904-5  he  was 
featured  in  "The  Missourians." 

HAMMERSTEIN,  Oscar: 

Manager  and  builder  of  theatres,  was  born  in  Berlin,  Ger 
many,  in  1847.  He  came  to  this  country  in  1863  and  engaged 
in  cigarmaking  for  a  living.  He  invented  many  labor-saving 
devices  in  this  industry,  for  which  he  secured  patents.  He  was 
a  passionate  lover  of  the  theatre  and,  in  1868,  he  wrote  three 
one-act  comedies,  one  of  them  with  music,  and  they  were  suc 
cessfully  produced  at  one  of  the  German  theatres  in  New  York. 
They  were  called  "Selo  Sechsig,"  "Antonio"  and  "Our  Poor  Re 
lations."  In  1870  he  leased  the  Stadt  Theatre,  which  afterward 
became  the  Windsor,  and  launched  into  theatrical  management. 
He  was  not  successful  from  a  financial  point  of  view,  and  for  a 
time  he  relinquished  his  theatrical  management  ambition.  In 
1880  he  came  to  the  conclusion  that  Harlem  needed  a  theatre, 
and  he  set  to  work  to  build  her  one.  At  that  time  Harlem  was 


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not  the  populous  section  that  it  is  now,  and  she  really  did  not 
want  a  theatre.  But  the  valiant  Oscar  decided  that  she  did, 
and  he  built  her  the  Harlem  Opera  House,  one  of  the  most  beau 
tiful  and  practical  theatres  of  the  world.  The  place  ate  up  nearly 
three  hundred  thousand  dollars  of  Mr.  Hammerstein's  money 
before  he  lost  it.  Then  he  decided  that  Harlem  needed  two  thea 
tres,  and  he  built  her  the  Columbus,  opening  it  with  Margaret 
Mather.  It  made  money,  but  the  money  had  to  be  sent  to  the 
opera  house  to  maintain  it.  Next  he  came  down  to  Manhattan 
and  built  the  Manhattan  Opera  House,  which  afterward  became 
Koster  &  Bial's  Music  Hall.  Then  he  built  the  Olympia,  now 
the  New  York,  and  undertook  to  run  it  as  a  first-class  music 
hall.  He  paid  the  highest  salaries,  and  for  a  time  the  Olympia 
was  very  prosperous,  but  the  house  was  finally  taken  from  him 
by  the  New  York  Life  Insurance  Company  on  a  mortgage  for 
nine  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Since  the  collapse  of  the  Olym 
pia  enterprise  Mr.  Hammerstein  has  built  four  more  theatres 
in  New  York — the  Victoria,  which  he  now  manages;  the  Belasco 
Theatre,  the  theatre  opened  by  Lew  Fields  in  West  Forty-second 
street,  and  the  Manhattan  Opera  House,  in  which  the  seasons 
of  1906-7-8  he  has  successfully  produced  Italian  and  French 
grand  operas. 

HAMPDEtf,  Walter  (W.  H.  Dougherty)  : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  June  30,  1879,  being 
the  son  of  John  Hampden  Dougherty,  a  New  York  lawyer.  He 
was  educated  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Institute  and  at  Har 
vard  University.  He  joined  F.  R.  Benson's  provincial  company 
and  made  his  debut  at  Brighton,  England,  on  September  2,  1901. 
He  was  with  this  company  for  three  years,  during  that  time 
playing  at  least  sixty-five  roles  of  various  types.  In  1904  he 
went  under  the  management  of  Otho  Stuart,  appearing  at  the 
Adelphi  Theatre,  London,  in  such  plays  as  "The  Prayer  of  the 
Sword,"  a  poetic  drama,  by  J.  B.  Fagan;  "Measure  for  Measure." 
"The  Virgin  Goddess"  and  numerous  others.  He  was  under 
study  for  H.  B.  Irving,  and  during  that  actor's  illness  succeeded 
him  for  one  week  as  Hamlet.  He  came  to  America  in  1907  as 
Alia  Nazimova's  leading  man,  appearing  at  the  Bijou  Theatre 
the  fall  of  1907  in  "The  Master  Builder"  and  in  "The  Doll's 
House."  He  was  seen  with  Viola  Allen  in  "Irene  Wycherley" 
in  1908. 

HARDY,  Sam  B. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  March  21,  1883,  and 
was  educated  at  Yale.  He  made  his  first  appearance  as  Lord 


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Litterly  in  "The  Amazons"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre  in  1902. 
He  afterward  played  Lord  Wilmot  with  J.  K.  Hackett  in  "The 
Fortunes  of  the  King,"  Lord  Chichester  in  "Sweet  Kitty  Bel- 
lairs"  with  Miss  Crosman,  Blepyeus  in  "Eternal  Feminine"  with 
Miss  Anglin,  Harry  Dotty  in  George  Ade's  "Bad  Samaritan," 
and  Sherlock  Holmes  in  the  play  of  that  name  during  a  tour 
of  the  South.  He  made  his  first  pronounced  success  as  John 
Willing  (the  Gibson  Man)  in  "The  Education  of  Mr.  Pipp"  with 
Digby  Bell.  Mr.  Hardy  has  also  played  a  season  with  the  Toledo 
Stock  Company  and  in  William  Gillette's  sketch,  "The  Red 
Owl,"  in  vaudeville.  The  summer  of  1907  he  was  leading  man 
with  the  Poli  Stock  Company,  Springfield,  Mass.  He  is  a  mem 
ber  of  The  Lambs  and  The  Players  clubs,  New  York. 

HARE,  Sir  John  (John  Fairs)  : 

Actor,  was  born  at  Giggleswick,  Yorkshire,  England,  May  16, 
1844.  He  made  his  first  stage  appearance  at  the  Prince  of  Wales* 
Theatre,  Liverpool,  in  a  small  part  in  "A  Business  Woman." 
His  next  engagement  was  at  the  Prince  of  Wales'  Theatre,  Lon 
don,  as  Lieut.  Short  in  "Naval  Engagements."  He  remained  at 
the  same  playhouse  ten  years,  creating  many  parts  in  the  come 
dies  of  the  late  T.  W.  Robertson,  including  that  of  Sam  Gerrige- 
in  "Caste."  He  became  lessee  of  the  Court  Theatre,  London,  in 
1875  and  managed  it  four  years.  In  his  company  were  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Kendal,  John  Clayton,  Ellen  Terry  and  many  notable  per 
formers.  In  partnership  with  the  Kendals  he  assumed  the  man 
agement  of  the  St.  James'  Theatre  in  1879,  and  during  nine 
years  there  produced  many  great  successes.  In  1889  the  Gar- 
rick  Theatre  was  built  for  him,  and  there  he  made  many  mem 
orable  productions.  He  took  the  Globe  in  1898  and  produced 
"The  Gay  Lord  Quex,"  with  which  he  afterward  toured  this- 
country.  He  has  long  been  recognized  as  the  greatest  English 
actor  of  old  men's  parts.  Sir  John  Hare  was  knigted  by  King 
Edward  VII  in  1907,  in  recognition  of  his  services  to  dramatic 
art.  He  is  vice-president  of  the  Actors'  Association  of  London 
and  a  member  of  the  Beefsteak  and  Garrick  clubs.  His  address 
is  75  Upper  Berkeley  street,  Portman  square,  London,  England. 

HARLAN,  Otis: 

Comedian,  was  born  and  educated  in  Zanesville,  Ohio,  where,. 
in  1887,  while  he  was  still  a  schoolboy,  the  late  Charles  H.  Hoyt 
met  him.  That  year  Mr.  Harlan  became  a  member  of  Hoyt's. 
company,  making  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  as  the  Ro 
mantic  Young  Man  in  "A  Hole  in  the  Ground."  He  next  ap 
peared  with  Frank  Daniels  in  "Little  Puck,"  after  which  he  re- 


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turned  to  the  Hoyt  fold  as  one  of  the  Razzle-Dazzle  trio  in  "A 
Brass  Monkey."  His  next  part  was  Major  Yell  in  "A  Texas 
Steer,"  after  which  he  left  Hoyt  for  a  time,  and  played  Tippo 
Tip  in  George  Thatcher's  "Africa."  He  played  with  May  Irwin 
in  "Boys  and  Girls,"  and  next  appeared  as  Spinks  in  "Gloriana." 
After  a  short  season  with  Thomas  Q.  Seabrooke  in  "The  Isle  of 
Champagne"  he  played  the  part  of  the  Vizier  in  "Tabasco."  He 
then  made  his  greatest  success  as  Hot  Stuff  in  "A  Black  Sheep." 
Afterward  he  played  the  title  part  in  "A  Stranger  in  New  York," 
and  that  of  a  New  Jersey  hayseed  in  "A  Night  and  a  Day."  The 
seasons  of  1905-6-7  Mr.  Harlan  played  Theodore  Banting  in  "The 
Vanderbilt  Cup."  He  appeared  with  Anna  Held  in  the  second 
edition  of  "The  Parisian  Model,"  January  6,  1908,  at  the  Broad 
way  Theatre,  New  York. 

HARNED,  Miss  Virginia  (Mrs.  E.  H.  Sothern) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston  in  1868,  but  when  she  was  a  baby 
her  parents  left  that  city  and  she  was  educated  and  spent  her 
early  years  in  England.  Returning  to  this  country,  she  made 
her  first  stage  appearance  with  a  traveling  company  playing 
"Our  Boarding-house."  Early  in  1887  she  appeared  with  George 
Clarke  in  "The  Corsican  Brothers"  and  "False  Shame,"  and  then 
for  two  years  toured  with  a  company  playing  "A  Night  Off,"  tak 
ing  the  part  of  Liobe.  After  a  short  season  with  Harry  Lacy  in 
"The  Still  Alarm,"  Miss  Harned  made  her  first  appearance  in 
New  York  March  31,  1890,  at  the  Fourteenth  Street  Theatre  in 
Sedley  Brown's  "A  Lost  Lane;  or,  On  Green  Meadows."  After 
a  season  playing  Florence  Fetherley  with  Louis  Aldrich  in  "The 
Editor,"  Miss  Harned  was  engaged  by  Daniel  Frohman  as  lead 
ing  woman  for  E.  H.  Sothern,  and  she  made  her  first  New  York 
appearance  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre  as  Clara  Dexter  in  "The  Mais- 
ter  of  Woodbarrow."  She  also  created  the  leading  woman  roles 
in  "Lord  Chumley,"  "The  Dancing  Girl,"  and  "Captain  Lettar- 
blair."  Her  Drusilla  Ives  in  "The  Dancing  Girl"  attracted  most 
attention.  In  1893  she  joined  A.  M.  Palmer's  company,  and  with 
it  played  Mrs.  Erlynne  in  "Lady  Windermere's  Fan,"  Letty 
Fletcher  in  "Saints  and  Sinners,"  and  Mrs.  Sylvester  in  "The 
New  Woman."  In  1895  Miss  Harned  created  the  part  of  Trilby 
in  this  country  at  its  first  production  at  the  Park  Theatre,  Bos 
ton,  March  11,  and  afterward  played  the  part  throughout  a  long 
run  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York.  She  was  also  the  origi 
nal  Lady  Ursula  in  the  comedy  "The  Adventure  of  Lady  Ursu 
la,"  first  produced  at  the  Broad  Street  Theatre,  Philadelphia, 
December  6,  1897.  For  several  seasons  Miss  Harned  has  starred 
at  the  head  of  her  own  company.  The  season  of  1906-7  she- 


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played  "The  Love  Letter,"  and  the  season  of  1907-8  "Anna  Rare* 
nina. "  Miss  Harned  was  married  to  Edward  H.  Sothern  in 
Philadelphia  December  3,  1896.  Her  New  York  address  is  37 
West  Sixty-ninth  street. 

HARRIGAN,  Edward : 

Actor  and  playwright,  was  born  in  the  old  Seventh  Ward  of 
New  York  October  26,  1843,  being  the  son  of  an  Irish  ship  con 
tractor.  When  a  boy  he  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage 
in  the  old  Bowery  Theatre,  delivering  an  original  stump  speech 
at  a  performance  of  Campbell's  Minstrels.  From  fifteen  to  sev 
enteen  he  was  an  apprentice  in  a  shipyard.  Then  he  drifted  to 
the  variety  stage,  soon  becoming  one  of  the  leading  lights  of 
that  class  of  entertainment.  His  first  team  partner  was  Alexan 
der  O'Brien,  and  his  second  Sam  Rickey,  with  whom  he  ap 
peared  in  "The  Little  Fraud"  at  the  Globe  Theatre,  New  York, 
November  21,  1870.  "The  Mulcahey  Twins"  was  also  produced 
during  this  engagement,  and  struck  the  popular  taste.  The  text 
of  both  sketches  was  written  by  Harrigan.  After  dissolving 
partnership  with  Rickey  Mr.  Harrigan  joined  with  Tony  Hart, 
and  for  years  the  Harrigan  and  Hart  team  was  popular.  At  this 
time  the  upper  West  Side  of  New  York  was  a  wilderness  of 
rocks  and  boulders,  upon  which  thousands  of  poor  families  lived 
in  squatters'  shanties,  paying  no  rent.  Mr.  Harrigan  saw  in  this 
element  the  basis  of  a  play,  and  wrote  "Squatter  Sovereignty." 
He  produced  it  at  the  Theatre  Comique,  New  York,  in  1881,  and 
took  the  city  by  storm.  It  was  followed  by  a  series  of  similar 
plays.  Mr.  Harrigan  obtained  control  of  the  Theatre  Comique 
and  became  a  manager  himself.  That  theatre  was  destroyed  by 
fire  in  1S84,  and  Harrigan  and  Hart  went  to  the  Park  Theatre, 
now  the  Herald  Square,  where  they  produced  "McAllister's  Leg 
acy,"  "Cordelia's  Aspirations"  and  other  plays.  On  December 
29,  1890,  Mr.  Harrigan  opened  a  new  theatre  in  West  Thirty- 
fifth  street,  now  the  Garrick,  which  was  called  Harrigan's  Thea 
tre.  He  remained  there  several  years,  and  then  retired  from 
management  and  devoted  his  time  to  tours.  Among  the  success 
ful  Harrigan  plays  may  be  mentioned  "The  Mulligan  Guards," 
"The  Mulligan  Guards'  Christmas,"  "The  Mulligan  Guards'  Pic 
nic,"  "Mulligan's  Silver  Wedding,"  "Old  Lavender,"  "McSorley's 
Inflation,"  "The  Leather  Patch,"  "The  O'Tehans,"  "Dan's  Tribu 
lations,"  and  "Reilly  and  the  400." 

HARRIS,  Charles  K.: 

Composer  and  song  writer,  was  born  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y., 
May  1,  1865,  and  was  educated  at  the  public  schools  in  East 
Saginaw,  Mich.  At  the  age  of  twelve  he  began  composing  popu- 


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lar  melodies  for  special  occasions,  frequently  accompanying  him 
self  on  the  banjo.  He  finally  drifted  into  professional  song  writ 
ing,  receiving  at  times  as  much  as  from  ten  to  twenty  dollars 
for  a  composition.  These  he  wrote  to  order  for  all  manner  and 
sorts  of  performers.  His  first  marked  success,  however,  was  the 
famous  waltz  song,  "After  the  Ball."  For  a  long  time  the  com 
position  was  a  white  elephant  on  his  hands,  and  in  desperation 
he  offered  it  to  a  Chicago  publishing  house  for  twenty-five  dol 
lars,  but  the  firm  failed  to  see  its  merit.  In  1892  in  a  little 
Milwaukee  office  the  firm  of  Charles  K.  Harris,  music  publish 
ers,  was  launched,  "After  the  Ball"  being  its  initial  publication. 
This  was  the  song-hit  during  the  Exposition  year.  Among  Mr. 
Harris's  most  popular  numbers  are  "Always  in  the  Way,"  "Break 
the  News  to  Mother,"  "Cast  Aside,"  "Fallen  by  the  Wayside," 
"I'm  Wearing  My  Heart  Away  for  You,"  "Kiss  and  Let's  Make 
Up,"  "  'Mid  the  Green  Fields  of  Virginia,"  "There'll  Come  a 
Time,"  "Will  I  Find  My  Mama  There?"  "While  the  Dance  Goes 
On."  Mr.  Harris  married  Cora  Lehrberg  November  15,  1893.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Otandard,  Phoenix  and  Milwaukee  Athletic 
clubs.  His  home  is  at  418  Central  Park  West,  New  York. 

HARRIS,  Henry  B. : 

Manager,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  December  1,  1866,  and 
was  educated  at  the  High  School  in  Boston.  He  entered  the  em 
ploy  of  his  father,  who  was  associated  with  the  theatrical  firm 
of  Rich  &  Harris,  and  in  1901  became  an  independent  manager, 
presenting  Robert  Edeson  as  a  star  in  "Soldiers  of  Fortune." 
He  became  lessee  and  manager  of  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New 
York,  two  years  later.  His  various  enterprises  include  "Strong- 
heart,"  at  present  in  its  fourth  year;  "The  Chorus  Lady,"  in 
which  Rose  Stahl  starred;  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse,"  produced 
by  four  companies  because  of  its  success;  "The  Daughters  of 
Men,"  which  had  a  short  run;  "Classmates,"  with  Robert  Ede 
son;  "The  Struggle  Everlasting,"  with  Florence  Roberts,  and 
"The  Christian  Pilgrim,"  with  Henrietta  Crosman  and  Tyrone 
Power.  Mr.  Harris's  address  is  the  Hudson  Theatre,  West  Forty- 
fourth  street,  New  York. 

HARRIS,  Miss  Sadie: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  February  7,  1888,  and  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  in  that  city.  She  is  a  sister-in- 
law  of  Lew  Fields,  the  comedian.  Miss  Harris  made  her  first 
stage  appearance  as  a  maid  in  "The  Chaperones,"  and  at  the 
close  of  her  engagement  returned  to  school,  to  complete  her 
studies.  The  season  of  1903-4  she  appeared  with  Marie  Cahill 


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in  "Molly  Moonshine,"  and  subsequently  with  May  Irwin  as 
ingenue.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  seen  as  Geraldine  Wil- 
cox  in  George  M.  Cohan's  "The  Talk  of  New  York,"  produced 
at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New  York,  December  3,  1907. 
Miss  Harris's  address  is  75  West  Eighty-ninth  street,  New  York. 

HARRIS,  Sam  H. : 

Manager,  was  born  on  the  lower  part  of  Manhattan  in  New 
York  in  1872.  He  commenced  to  earn  his  own  living  at  the  ago 
of  eleven,  and  was  employed  in  various  mercantile  pursuits  up 
to  the  time  he  was  seventeen  years  old,  when  he  became  man 
ager  of  a  large  steam  laundry.  He  then  became  interested  in 
the  pugilistic  destinies  of  Terry  McGovern,  the  featherweight 
fighter  whose  many  victories  won  for  both  of  them  fame  and 
money.  It  was  while  interested  in  the  management  of  McGovern 
that  Mr.  Harris  bought  a  half-interest  in  "The  Gay  Morning 
Glories,"  a  burlesque  organization  in  which  McGovern  was  a 
star  attraction.  He  afterward  starred  the  pugilist  in  a  melo 
drama  called  "The  Bowery  After  Dark."  The  success  of  that 
tour  encouraged  Mr.  Harris  to  invest  largely  in  melodramatic 
attractions  of  the  better  class,  and  the  firm  of  Sullivan,  Harris 
&  Woods  was  the  outcome.  This  firm  produced  many  melo 
dramas  on  a  large  scale,  the  most  successful  being  "The  Fatal 
Wedding."  While  on  a  pleasure  trip  Mr.  Harris  became  ac 
quainted  with  George  M.  Cohan.  The  two  became  firm  friends 
and,  shortly  afterward,  business  associates.  The  firm  of  Cohan 
&  Harris  was  formed,  and  these  successful  plays  from  the  pen 
of  Mr.  Cohan  have  been  presented:  "Little  Johnny  Jones," 
"Forty-five  Minutes  from  Broadway,"  "George  Washington,  Jr.," 
a  new  edition  of  "The  Governor's  Son,"  "Popularity,"  "Fifty 
Miles  from  Boston,"  "The  Honeymooners,"  and  "The  Talk  of 
New  York." 

HARRISON,  Miss  Maud : 

Actress,  began  her  stage  career  at  the  Madison  Square  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  under  the  late  A.  M.  Palmer,  acting,  as  a  child, 
the  boy  Shakespeare  Jarvis  in  "The  Lights  o'  London."  She 
was  the  first  Mrs.  Brown  in  Bronson  Howard's  "The  Banker's 
Daughter."  She  was  the  Queen  in  "Elaine,"  Annie  Russell  be 
ing  the  actress  of  the  title  role.  She  was  concerned  in  such 
runs  as  those  of  "Saints  and  Sinners,"  "Aunt  Jack,"  "One  Touch 
of  Nature,"  "Jim  the  Penman,"  and  "Broken  Hearts."  She  was 
the  first  actress  in  this  country  as  Rosa  Guerin  in  "A  Parisian 
Romance,"  in  which  Richard  Mansfield  made  his  first  notable 
hit.  She  was  the  Henriette  of  the  famous  Palmer  revival  of 


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"The  Two  Orphans."  Miss  Harrison  played  in  Sydney  Rosen- 
f eld's  farce  of  "The  Purple  Lady"  in  1899  at  the  Bijou  Theatre, 
New  York,  and  also  in  "Naughty  Anthony,"  produced  in  1900 
at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  by  David  Belasco.  The 
season  of  1906  she  was  in  "Clothes,"  supporting  Grace  George. 

HART,  Joseph  (J.  H,  Boudrow) : 

Comedian,  was  born  in  Boston  June  8,  1858,  and  began  his 
professional  career  as  a  child  in  such  plays  as  "Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin"  and  "Ten  Nights  in  a  Barroom"  at  the  Howard  Athe 
naeum,  then  under  the  management  of  his  uncle,  Josh  Hart.  In 
the  early  '70s  he  joined  I.  W.  Baird's  Minstrels  as  end  man,  and 
soon  became  one  of  the  most  popular  of  minstrels  and  .banjo 
players,  coining  his  own  jokes  and  writing  his  own  songs.  He 
was  one  of  the  minstrel  troupe  of  Simmons  and  Slocum,  of 
Philadelphia,  and  one  of  Tony  Pastor's  best  drawing  cards.  He 
left  minstrelsy  and  variety  to  play  as  Koko  in  "The  Mikado," 
and  in  "The  Princess  Ida."  In  1888  he  went  into  partnership 
with  Frederick  Hallen,  and  under  the  name  of  Hallen  and  Hart 
they  toured  the  country  with  a  company  playing  the  musical 
comedy  "Later  On,"  written  by  Mr.  Hart  and  H.  Grattan  Don 
nelly.  This  ran  for  six  successive  years,  and  was  followed  by 
"The  Idea,"'^yr"Mr.  Hart  and  Herbert  Hall  Winslow,  which 
served  them  well  for  two  years  more.  The  partners  separated 
then,  and  Mr.  Hart  starred  the  season  of  1895-6  in  "A  Gay  Old 
Boy,"  written  by  himself.  In  1897-8  he  was  the  star  in  C.  T. 
Dazey's  "A  Tarrytown  Widow."  From  1901  to  1905  he  starred  in 
"Foxy  Grandpa,"  written  by  him  in  collaboration  with  Melville 
Baker,  with  whom  he  also  collaborated  in  the  writing  of  "Girls 
Will  Be  Girls."  Mr.  Hart  is  the  author  and  producer  of  many 
vaudeville  sketches,  in  several  of  which  his  wife,  Carrie  De 
Mar,  whom  he  married  August  1,  1894,  has  achieved  popularity. 
His  home  is  at  16  Morningside  avenue,  New  York.  His  business 
address  is  New  York  Theatre  Building,  New  York. 

HASWELL,  Miss  Percy  (Mrs.  George  Fawcett) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Texas  and  educated  in  Washington, 
D.  C.  She  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  as  a  member 
of  Augustin  Daly's  company,  playing  small  parts  and  being  un 
derstudy  to  Ada  Rehan.  She  made  her  first  pronounced  success 
as  Molly  Seamore  in  "The  Geisha."  In  1895  Miss  Haswell  be 
came  leading  woman  for  William  H.  Crane,  in  whose  company 
she  remained  three  years.  In  1899  she  became  the  star  of  a 
stock  company,  playing  the  entire  season  in  Washington.  She 
was  the  leading  woman  with  Otis  Skinner  during  the  New  York 


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run  of  "Prince  Otto,"  and  in  1901-2  she  starred  at  the  head  of 
her  own  stock  company  at  Chase's  Theatre,  Baltimore,  opening 
with  "The  Liars,"  and  playing  many  Frohman  productions,  such 
as  "Liberty  Hall,'*  "The  Tyranny  of  Tears,"  "A  Marriage  of 
Convenience,"  etc.  The  season  of  1905-6  she  starred  in  "The 
Darling  of  the  Gods,"  and  October  20,  1906,  she  appeared  as 
Ruth  Guthrie  in  "The  Measure  of  a  Man"  at  Weber's  Theatre, 
New  York.  The  summer  of  1907  she  was  in  a  stock  company 
in  Washington,  D.  C.  Miss  Haswell  is  the  wife  of  George  Faw- 
cett,  the  well-known  actor  and  manager. 

HAWTREY,  Charles: 

Actor,  was  born  at  Slough,  near  Windsor,  England,  Septem 
ber  20,  1855,  being  the  son  of  the  Rev.  John  Hawtrey,  an  Eton 
master.  He  was  educated  at  Rugby.  He  made  his  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  in  London  in  "The  Private  Secretary,"  which 
had  a  long  run.  This  was  followed  by  "The  Arabian  Nights," 
"Tenterhooks,"  "Nerves,"  "Jane,"  and  "Husband  and  Wife." 
He  played  at  the  Globe  Theatre  from  1892  to  1895,  and  produced 
"The  White  Elephant,"  and  "Saucy  Sally,"  at  the  Comedy  in 
1895  and  1896,  and  "One  Summer's  Day"  in  1897.  This  was  fol 
lowed  by  "The  Cuckoo,"  and  "Lord  and  Lady  Algy,"  in  1898, 
and  "A  Message  from  Mars"  at  the  Avenue  Theatre,  London,  in 
1898-1900.  With  this  play  he  came  to  the  United  States  in  1904 
under  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman,  making  a  pro 
nounced  success.  Returning  to  London  in  1905,  he  repeated  "A 
Message  from  Mars"  at  the  Avenue  Theatre,  and  then  produced 
"Time  Is  Money"  at  the  Criterion,  subsequently  going  on  a  pro 
vincial  tour  with  Ethel  Irving  in  the  same  piece  and  in  "The 
Lucky  Miss  Dean."  He  created  the  part  of  Mr.  Kingsbury  in 
"The  Indecision  of  Mr.  Kingsbury"  at  the  Haymarket.  He 
adapted  "The  Private  Secretary"  from  the  German  of  Von  Mo- 
ser,  and  is  the  author  of  "Mr.  Marton,"  a  three-act  comedy.  Mr. 
Hawtrey  married  Helen  Neary  Durand,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Haviland  Durand,  of  England,  in  1902.  His  brother,  William  F. 
Hawtrey,  is  in  vaudeville  in  this  country.  His  home  is  at  r> 
Basil  Mansions,  Sloane  street,  London,  W. 

HAYDEN-CLARENDON,  J.: 

Actor  and  playwright.     See  Clarendon,  J.  Hayden. 

HAZELTIN,  George  Cochrane,  Jr.: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Boscobel,  Wis.,  and  educated  at 
Greylock  Institute,  South  Williamstown,  Mass.,  and  Columbian 
University,  Washington,  D.  C.  For  three  seasons  Mr.  Hazeltin 


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acted  with  the  Booth,  Barrett  and  Modjeska  companies,  then  re 
turned  to  the  practice  of  law,  at  the  same  time  writing  the  plays 
"Mistress  Nell,"  "Captain  Molry,"  and  "The  Raven."  Mr.  Hazel- 
tin  married  Miss  Byrd  C.  Quin,  of  Virginia.  His  home  is  at  35 
Chestnut  lane,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

HAWLE Y,  Miss  Ida : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Belleville,  Ontario,  Canada,  and  was 
educated  at  Loretta  Abbey,  Toronto.  She  made  her  first  ap 
pearance  on  the  stage  in  1897  in  "The  Tempest,"  under  the 
management  of  the  late  Augustin  Daly,  at  Philadelphia.  She 
remained  with  the  Daly  company  three  years,  playing  in  reper 
toire,  and  then  was  seen  in  "The  Three  Little  Lambs."  She 
next  played  Ruth  in  "The  Burgomaster"  in  1901,  and  then 
Edith  in  "The  Prince  of  Pilsen"  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New 
York.  The  following  two  seasons  she  was  with  Fritzi  Scheff  in 
"Babette,"  "Two  Roses"  and  a  repertoire  of  operas.  She  also 
understudied  and  played  the  star  part  with  great  success  dur 
ing  Miss  Scheff 's  illness.  She  was  then  seen  in  "The  Pearl 
and  the  Pumpkin,"  playing  Polly,  for  one  season.  Engagements 
in  "The  Blue  Moon,"  supporting  J.  E.  Powers;  as  prima  donna 
in  "The  Snow  Man,"  and  in  "Captain  Careless"  followed.  The 
season  of  1907-8  Miss  Hawley  played  Florence  Seabright  in  "The 
Lady  from  Lane's,"  opening  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  afterward  playing  at  the  Casino  and  on  tour.  Her  favorite 
recreations  are  driving  and  motoring.  Her  permanent  address 
is  the  Hotel  Flanders,  Toronto,  Canada. 

HAZELTINE,  William: 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  in  1866  and  was 
educated  at  the  English  High  School,  Boston,  and  at  Harvard. 
He  was  in  the  fire  insurance  business  before  making  his  first 
appearance  on  the  stage  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York,  in  Novem 
ber,  1895.  He  remained  with  the  Daly  company  four  years,  be 
ing  a  member  of  that  organization  when  Augustin  Daly  died. 
His  first  marked  success  was  in  the  part  of  Longman  in  "The 
Great  Ruby."  He  played  the  Usurping  Duke  in  the  famous  per 
formance  of  "As  You  Like  It"  given  by  Miss  Ada  Rehan  and 
the  Daly  company  at  Stratford-on-Avon  August  26,  1897.  The 
season  of  1900-1  Mr.  Hazeltine  played  Major  Falconer  in  "The 
Choir  Invisible."  The  following  year  he  played  Captain  Hodg- 
man  in  "Arizona,"  and  in  1902-3  Gene  Lee  in  "Captain  Molly," 
and  Pembroke  in  "Among  Those  Present"  with  Mrs.  Le  Moyne. 
The  two  following  seasons  he  was  the  Gretry  in  "The  Pit"  with 
Wilton  Lackaye.  In  1905-6  he  played  Benedict,  Leicester  ancl 


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230  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Macduff  with  Madame  Modjeska.  Last  season  he  appeared  as 
Sheritan  in  "The  Double  Life,"  Vulpe  in  "CJeo,"  and  St.  Claire 
in  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin."  The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  seen  as 
Arthur  Pickering  in  "The  House  of  a  Thousand  Candles,"  pro 
duced  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York,  January  6,  1908.  Mr.  Hazel- 
tine  married  Miss  Stella  A.  Hale,  of  Boston,  in  1901.  His  favorite 
recreations  are  yachting  and  tennis.  He  is  a  member  of  The 
Players,  New  York;  the  Actors'  Society,  and  the  Masonic  Chapter. 

HEATH,  George: 

Actor  and  negro  minstrel.     See  Mclntyre  and  Heath. 

HELD,  Miss  Anna  (Mrs.  Florence  Ziegfeld,  Jr.)  : 

Actress  and  singer,  wras  born  in  Paris,  France,  in  1873.  Her 
mother  was  a  Pole.  Her  father,  a  Frenchman,  was  a  small 
glovemaker  who  lived  in  the  Fourth  Arondissement.  Anna  was 
the  youngest  of  seven  children,  the  other  six  all  dying  young. 
When  Anna  was  nine  years  old  her  father  failed  in  business 
and  then  opened  a  little  restaurant  which  also  proved  a  failure. 
Anna  then  went  to  work,  cleaning  and  curling  feathers  after 
school  hours.  Then  she  wrent  to  a  shop  to  make  buttonholes, 
but  soon  left  it  to  make  fur  caps.  While  she  worked  she  at 
tracted  some  attention  by  singing  the  songs  she  heard  in  the 
streets.  Her  father  died  in  a  hospital,  and  her  mother  having 
relatives  in  England  went  to  London  in  search  of  them,  but 
failed.  She  and  little  Anna  lived  in  a  small  room  next  door  to 
the  Princess  Theatre  in  Oxford  street,  where  the  girl  obtained 
a  place  in  the  chorus.  She  could  not  speak  English,  but  had 
learned  French,  German,  Polish  and  Spanish,  and  little  songs 
in  those  languages  were  written  for  her.  Her  mother  died  four 
years  after  reaching  London,  and  at  the  age  of  twelve  she  was 
left  alone  in  the  world.  Going  with  the  company  to  Holland, 
Miss  Held  bought  some  songs  on  the  street  and  tried  them  in 
a  music  hall.  She  was  successful,  and  for  two  months  remained 
in  Amsterdam  singing  chansonettes  in  the  music  hall  and  liv 
ing  with  the  family  of  the  director.  She  continued  her  success 
in  Rotterdam,  Christiania,  The  Hague  and  many  German  cities. 
At  the  age  of  sixteen  she  made  her  appearance  in  Paris.  She 
sang  at  El  Dorado  and  afterward  at  La  Scala  in  "reviews,"  mak 
ing  a  pronounced  success  as  Le  Colignon.  Meanwhile  she  studied 
singing  and  went  often  to  the  hospitals  to  witness  horrors,  her 
ambition  being  to  rival  Bernhardt.  Miss  Held  then  obtained  an 
engagement  at  the  Palace  Music  Hall,  London.  Mr.  Plumpton, 
the  director,  persuaded  her  to  attempt  a  song  in  English,  and 
the  result  was  the  song  "Won't  You  Come  and  Play  Wiz  Me?'' 


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which  scored  an  enormous  success.  Florence  Ziegfeld,  Jr.,  and 
Gharles  Evans,  of  Evans  and  Hoey,  heard  her  one  night  and 
engaged  her  to  come  to  America.  She  made  her  first  appear 
ance  here  in  "The  Parlor  Match,"  singing  the  same  song.  A 
year  later  she  married  Mr.  Ziegfeld,  her  manager,  who  has  since 
starred  her  in  "Papa's  Wife,"  "The  Little  Duchess,"  "Mile.  Na 
poleon,"  and  "The  Parisian  Model."  She  also  played  in  "A  Gay 
Deceiver,"  and  "The  Cat  and  the  Cherub,"  and  appeared  in  "La 
Poupee"  at  Hammerstein's  Olympia,  New  York.  She  was  also 
wi:h  the  Weber  and  Fields  company  for  a  season.  The  seasons 
of  1906-7-8  Miss  Held  opened  in  "A  Parisian  Model"  at  the  Broad 
way  Theatre,  New  York,  November  26,  1906,  and  continued  to 
star  in  that  musical  comedy  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8. 

HELENA,  Miss  Edith  (Mrs.  Edith  Ellen  Jennings) : 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  at  64  East  Twelfth  street,  New 
York  City,  December  23,  1876,  her  father  being  William  Fleming 
Seymour.  She  was  educated  at  the  public  schools,  and  before 
going  on  the  stage  permanently  was  a  trained  nurse.  She  made 
her  first  appearance  as  a  flower  girl  with  Mapleson's  Opera  Com 
pany  at  the  Academy  of  Music,  New  York,  when  she  was  seven 
years  old.  Her  professional  debut  was  at  the  Brighton  Beach 
Music  Hall,  New  York,  in  July,  1902,  where  she  did  a  singing 
act  in  vaudeville.  She  toured  the  States  in  vaudeville  until 
November,  1903,  when  she  sailed  for  Europe,  opening  at  the 
Rembrandt  Theatre,  Amsterdam,  December  1,  1903.  For  two 
years  she  sang  with  great  success  at  the  Apollo,  Dusseldorf; 
Empire,  London;  Blumensale,  Munich;  Wintergarten,  Berlin; 
Folies  Marigno,  Paris;  Marseilles,  Toulon,  Nice,  Barcelona, 
Rome,  Genoa,  Milan,  Bologna,  Frankfort,  Strassburg,  Brussels 
and  in  this  country.  She  played  Violetta  in  "La  Traviata"  in 
Bucharest  October,  1905;  in  Brussels  May,  1906,  and  with  the 
Royal  Italian  Grand  Opera  Company  in  the  Academy  of  Music 
and  the  Grand  Opera  House,  New  York,  June  1907.  Miss  Helena 
has  a  vocal  register  ranging  from  lower  G  to  A  in  altisimo, 
three  octaves  and  two  notes.  She  was  married  to  N.  A.  Jen 
nings,  a  well-known  New  York  journalist,  December  26,  1893. 
Her  favorite  recreations  are  riding,  rowing  and  swimming.  Her 
permanent  address  is  care  of  Myers  &  Keller,  31  West  Thirty- 
first  street,  New  York  City. 

HENDERSON,  David: 

Manager,  was  born  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  in  1853.  At  the 
age  of  twelve  he  found  himself  an  orphan,  and  went  to  work 
on  the  Edinburgh  Evening  Courant.  There  he  was  grounded  in 


232  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

all  departments  of  newspaper  work.  He  became  an  expert  sten 
ographer,  and  found  himself,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  in  New 
York.  At  first  he  wrote  "on  space"  in  the  daily  newspapers, 
and  acted  as  news  editor  on  The  Scottish  American.  He  then 
conceived  the  idea  of  publishing  cheap  standard  novels.  With 
his  brother  Wemyss  he  started  a  printing  office  in  Ann  street 
and  a  publishing  office  in  Nassau  street.  Within  two  months  he 
had  appointed  agents  in  half  a  dozen  States,  and  was  selling 
wagon-loads.  He  accepted  a  commission  from  William  Smyth, 
then  of  the  Herald,  to  go  to  California,  where  he  met  Flood, 
Fair,  O'Brien,  Mackay,  George  R.  Hearst  (father  of  W.  R. 
Hearst),  James  Keene,  Ralston,  John  McCullough,  Mark  Twain 
and  many  who  have  since  become  famous.  David  Henderson, 
as  foreign  correspondent  for  the  Chicago  Tribune,  was  with 
General  Grant  on  his  trip  around  the  world  while  in  Europe.  Re 
turning  to  this  country,  he  became  dramatic  critic  of  the  Chicago 
Tribune.  After  this,  with  General  John  A.  Logan  and  William 
D.  Eaton,  he  founded  the  Chicago  Herald.  The  Chicago  Opera 
House  was  his  next  project.  He  planned  the  scheme  and  the 
stock — $550,000 — was  subscribed  in  six  weeks.  Thus  Chicago  had 
the  first  fireproof,  steel  constructed,  electric  lighted  theatre  in 
the  country.  While  the  theatre  was  being  built  Mr.  Henderson 
accepted  an  offer  from  Melville  E.  Stone,  and  became  managing 
editor  of  the  Chicago  Daily  News.  The  opera  house  was  opened 
by  the  late  Thomas  W.  Keene  in  "Hamlet."  Then  began  a  record 
which  has  rarely  been  excelled  in  any  one  theatre  in  this  country 
by  any  one  manager.  The  policy  of  the  Chicago  Opera  House 
stamped  that  city  as  a  producing  centre.  In  June,  1887,  was  born 
"The  Arabian  Nights."  It  had  a  run  of  392  performances.  "The 
Crystal  Slipper"  followed  and  was  given  855  times.  Then  came 
"Sinbad,"  with  783  performances.  This  was  followed  by  "Blue 
beard,  Jr.,"  with  802  performances,  and  "Aladdin,  Jr.,"  with  500. 
"Ali  Baba"  was  given  over  900  times,  and  as  an  attraction  at  the 
Chicago  World's  Fair  cleared  $246,000.  Many  players,  including 
Henry  Norman,  Eddie  Foy,  John  D.  Gilbert,  Gerald  Coventry, 
James  Sullivan,  William  Collier,  Thomas  Ryley,  Otis  Harlan,  Lee 
Harrison,  Ezra  Kendall,  Herbert  Gresham,  Ada  Deaves,  Carrie  De 
Mar,  Ida  Mulle,  Frankie  Raymonde,  Bonnie  Maginn,  May  Yohe, 
Dave  Warfield,  May  Irwin  and  the  late  Dan  Daly  were  associated 
with,  and  many  of  them  were  graduated  from,  the  Grand  Opera 
House  under  Mr.  Henderson's  management.  At  the  Chicago 
Opera  House  Reginald  De  Koven  and  Harry  B.  Smith's  first 
opera,  "The  Begum,"  and  later  their  greatest  success,  "Robin 
Hood,"  were  first  presented.  The  Metropolitan  Opera  Company 
sang  on  that  stage  for  the  first  time  in  the  West.  Mr.  Henderson 


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staged  for  many  years  the  productions  of  the  McCaull  Opera 
Company.  Among  the  other  theatres  of  which  Mr.  Henderson, 
has  been  the  lessee  are  the  Broadway,  in  Denver;  the  Great 
Northern  and  Schiller  (now  the  Garrick),  in  Chicago;  the  Audi 
torium,  Kansas  City,  and  the  Savoy,  New  York.  He  built  tho 
Duquesne  Theatre  (now  the  Belasco)  in  Pittsburg.  Mr.  Hender 
son  married  Frankie  Raymonde  in  1896,  having  a  few  years  pre 
viously  divorced  his  first  wife,  who  was  known  on  the  stage  as 
Grace  Henderson. 

HERBERT,  Victor: 

Composer,  was  born  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  on  February  1,  1859, 
the  son  of  Edward  and  Fannie  Lover  Herbert,  and  the  grandson 
of  Samuel  Lover,  the  novelist.  He  was  sent  to  Germany  to 
study  music  when  only  seven  years  old,  and  became  an  expert 
performer  on  the  violoncello,  playing  that  instrument  in  the 
Court  Orchestra,  Stuttgart,  and  with  many  famous  European  or 
ganizations.  He  came  to  this  country  as  solo  'cellist  in  the 
Metropolitan  Orchestra  in  1886,  and  afterward  played  first  'cello 
and  was  assistant  conductor  with  Theodore  Thomas  and  Anton 
Seidl.  He  became  bandmaster  of  the  Twenty-second  Regiment 
Band,  New  York,  in  1894,  and  in  1904  organized  his  own  orches 
tra,  which  has  toured  all  over  the  country.  Mr.  Herbert's  con 
tributions  to  stage  music  are  the  scores  of  the  operas  "Prince 
Ananias,"  "The  Serenade,"  and  "The  Viceroy,"  for  the  Bostoni- 
ans;  "The  Wizard  of  the  Nile,"  "The  Idol's  Eye,"  and  "The 
Ameer,"  for  Frank  Daniels;  "Cyrano  de  Bergerac,"  for  Francis 
Wilson;  "The  Fortune  Teller,"  and  "The  Singing  Girl,"  for  Alice 
Nielsen;  "Babette,"  and  "Mile.  Modiste,"  for  Fritzi  Scheff;  "Dolly 
Dollars,"  for  Lulu  Glaser,  and  "Babes  in  Toyland,"  and  "It  Hap 
pened  in  Nordland,"  and  "Miss  Camille,"  a  vaudeville  sketch 
played  the  season  of  1907-8.  Mr.  Herbert  married  on  August  14, 
1886,  Therese  Foerster,  a  well-known  prima  donna.  Mr.  Her 
bert's  home  is  at  321  West  One  Hundred  and  Eighth  street,  New 
York. 

HERMAN,  Miss  Selma: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Adrian,  Mich.,  and  was  educated  at  a 
convent  m  Toledo,  to  which  place  her  family  moved  when  she 
was  a  child.  She  abandoned  her  early  desire  to  be  a  nun  in 
favor  of  a  stage  career,  and  got  her  first  chance  when  Miss  Emily 
Rigl,  then  playing  in  Toledo  with  Frank  Mayo  in  "The  Streets 
of  New  York,"  fell  ill.  The  child  Selma  was  given  a  trial,  and 
did  so  well  in  the  leading  part  that  she  was  retained  in  it  for 
several  months  during  which  Miss  Rigl  was  ill.  The  young  girl 
was  then  engaged  to  play  Ilda  Barosky  in  "Darkest  Russia"  un- 


234  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

der  the  management  of  Ellis  and  Brady,  and  continued  to  do  so 
for  nearly  four  years.  A  stock  engagement  in  Cincinnati,  dur 
ing  which  she  played  leading  parts  in  "Canaille,"  "East  Lynne," 
"Cyrano  de  Bergerac,"  etc.,  followed;  then,  under  the  Tillotson 
management,  she  played  in  "Report  for  Duty,"  "The  Young 
Wife,"  and  "Under  Two  Flags."  After  a  season  in  the  Hopkins 
Stock  in  Chicago,  Miss  Herman  played  for  a  term  under  the 
management  of  Sullivan,  Harris  &  Woods,  then  went  on  the 
Heuck  &  Fennessy  circuit.  Her  next  engagement  was  with  the 
late  W.  J.  Fiedy  in  "Wedded,  but  no  Wife,"  after  which  she 
starred  in  "The  Queen  of  the  Convicts."  For  seven  years  past 
Miss  Herman  has  managed  her  own  summer  stock  company  in 
Cincinnati. 

KERNE,  Miss  Chrystal: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston  June  16,  1883,  her  father  being 
the  well-known  actor,  James  A.  Herne,  whose  chief  success  was 
"Shore  Acres."  Miss  Herne  made  her  stage  debut  in  a  small 
part  in  "Griffith  Davenport"  on  January  16,  1899,  the  play  being 
produced  by  her  father's  company.  In  the  season  of  1900-1  sho 
played  with  her  father  in  "Sag  Harbor."  Her  next  engagement 
was  with  E.  H.  Sothern.  This  was  followed  by  her  appearance 
as  Dearest  in  a  revival  of  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy."  In  1903  she 
appeared  as  Hippolyta  in  Nat  Goodwin's  production  of  "A  Mid 
summer  Night's  Dream,"  and  in  November  of  that  year  played 
her  first  engagement  as  a  leading  woman,  supporting  Arthur 
Byron  in  Clyde  Fitch's  "Major  Andre."  This  play  proving  short 
lived,  she  was  engaged  as  leading  woman  by  Nat  Goodwin.  In 
his  company  she  appeared  as  Gwendolin  Winston  in  "My  Wife's 
Husbands,"  and  as  Margaret  Ruthven  in  "A  Gilded  Fool."  For 
the  remainder  of  the  season  of  1904  she  played  the  leading  parts 
in  Klaw  &  Erlanger's  production  of  "Home  Folks"  and  in  "Rich- 
ter's  Wife,"  written  by  her  sister,  Julie  Herne.  When  Arnold 
Daly  began  his  production  of  the  series  of  Shaw  plays  he  engaged 
Miss  Herne  as  his  leading  woman,  and  her  impersonations  of 
Candida  in  "Candida,"  and  Gloria  in  "You  Never  Can  Tell," 
Nora  Riley  in  "John  Bull's  Other  Island,"  and  the  Lady  in  "The 
Man  of  Destiny"  were  prominent  factors  in  giving  those  plays 
their  popularity.  She  also  appeared  as  Vivie  Warren  in  the  Shaw 
play,  "Mrs.  Warren's  Profession."  Leaving  Mr.  Daly's  company, 
she  went  to  London,  appearing  as  the  leading  woman  in  support 
of  H.  B.  Irving,  son  of  Sir  Henry  Irving,  in  his  production  of 
"The  Jury  of  Fate"  at  the  Shaftesbury  Theatre,  the  opening  night 
being  January  2,  1906.  In  March,  1906,  she  returned  to  New 
York  and  again  joined  Mr.  Daly  in  a  Shaw  play,  this  time  play- 


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ing  Reina  Petkopf  in  "Arms  and  the  Man."  After  playing  a 
short  time  with  Mr.  Daly  in  Shaw  repertoire,  she  joined  the  En 
dowed  Theatre  company  playing  at  the  New  Theatre,  Chicago. 
Chief  among  the  parts  she  played  there  were  Elza  in  Gerhardt 
Hauftmann's  play  of  that  name;  Gerda  in  "Masquerade,"  both 
produced  for  the  first  time  in  English,  and  Margaret  Fleming  in 
her  father's  play  of  that  name.  In  1907  Miss  Herne  was  seen  in 
the  leading  role  in  the  New  York  production  of  "Genesee  of  the 
Hills,"  a  dramatization  of  "Told  in  the  Hills."  During  the  sum 
mer  of  1907  Miss  Herne  played  with  Edwin  Arden's  stock  com 
pany  at  Washington,  and  she  was  featured  in  "The  Stepsister," 
produced  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  October  14,  1907. 
In  1908  she  appeared  with  Arnold  Daly  in  the  dramatization  of 
Owen  Kildare's  "My  Mamie  Rose."  Her  home  is  at  Herne  Oaks, 
Southampton,  L.  I. 

HERNE,  Miss  Julie: 

Actress  and  playwright,  was  born  in  Boston  October  31,  1881, 
being  the  eldest  of  the  four  children  of  the  late  James  A.  Herne. 
She  made  her  debut  in  her  father's  company  of  "Shore  Acres," 
alternating  with  Marion  Cullen  in  the  leading  role  of  Ann  Berry 
and  the  juvenile  part  of  Perley.  The  next  season  she  originated 
the  part  of  Emma  West  in  her  father's  play,  "The  Rev.  Griffith 
Davenport,"  and  the  three  following  seasons  she  was  Martha 
Reese  in  "Sag  Harbor."  She  then  entered  into  a  long-term  con 
tract  with  Klaw  &  Erlanger,  appearing  for  a  time  with  Dan 
Daly  in  "John  Henry,"  followed  by  a  season  as  Esther  in  "Ben 
Hur,"  and  the  next  year  she  was  in  their  production  of  "Home 
Folks."  In  the  spring  of  1905  she  produced  at  the  Manhattan 
Theatre,  at  five  special  matinees,  a  play  from  her  own  pen,  en 
titled  "Richter's  Wife."  She  was  next  with  Raymond  Hitchcock 
in  "Easy  Dawson,"  after  which  came  a  short  stock  season  in 
Brooklyn.  The  spring  of  1906  she  originated  the  role  of  Lael  in 
"The  Prince  of  India." 

HERZ,  Ralph  C.: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England,  being  the  son  of  Dr.  Cornelius 
Herz,  who  was  associated  with  Ferdinand  De  Lesseps  in  the  first 
Suez  Canal  scheme  and  in  which  he  lost  his  fortune.  Mr.  Herz 
was  graduated  from  Eton"  and  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  where 
he  won  some  fame  as  an  athlete.  His  first  appearance  on  the 
stage  was  with  Miss  Maxine  Elliott  in  "Her  Own  Way"  during 
her  London  season  with  that  play.  He  was  afterward  leading 
man  with  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell  for  a  season.  He  made  his  first 
appearance  in  this  country  with  Miss  Lulu  Glaser  in  "Dolly  Dol- 


236  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

lars"  the  season  of  1906-7.  In  the  spring  of  1907  Mr.  Herz  mar 
ried  Miss  Glaser.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  appeared  with  her  in 
"Lola  from  Berlin."  His  home  is  at  179  West  Seventy-second 
street,  New  York. 

HICKS,  Edward  Seymour: 

Actor-manager  and  playwright,  was  born  in  St.  Heliers,  Isle 
of  Jersey,  in  the  English  Channel,  January  30,  1871,  being  the 
son  of  Major  Hicks  of  the  Forty-second  Highlanders.  He  was 
educated  at  Victoria  College,  Jersey,  and  Prior  Park  College, 
Bath,  making  his  first  stage  appearance  at  the  age  of  sixteen. 
In  1894  he  was  principal  light  comedian  in  George  Edwardes's 
company  at  the  Gaiety  Theatre,  London.  He  remained  there 
three  years  and  then  appeared  in  "A  Court  Scandal"  at  the  Gar- 
rick  Theatre,  London.  He  visited  America  shortly  after,  and 
upon  his  return  to  London  was  seen  in  "Quality  Street,"  "Sweet 
and  Twenty,"  and  "Alice  in  Wonderland"  at  the  Vaudeville  Thea 
tre.  He  subsequently  produced  his  own  musical  comedies,  "The 
Cherry  Girl,"  and  "Blue  Bell  in  Fairyland,"  with  Ellaline  Ter- 
riss  in  the  leading  roles,  and  in  1904  "The  Catch  of  the  Season," 
written  in  collaboration  with  Cosmo  Hamilton,  which  ran  the 
seasons  of  1904-5-6.  He  is  the  author  of  numerous  other  musical 
pieces,  dramas  and  one-act  sketches.  Mr.  Hicks  married  in  1892 
Miss  Ellaline  Terriss  (Ellaline  Lewin),  an  English  actress  and 
daughter  of  the  late  William  Terriss,  a  well-known  English  actor. 
Mr.  Hicks  is  the  proprietor  of  the  Hicks  and  New  Aldwych  thea 
tres,  London.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Garrick  and  Green  Room 
clubs,  London. 

HILLIARD,  Robert  Cochran: 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  May  28,  1857.  Soon  afterward 
his  family  moved  to  Brooklyn,  where  they  were  socially  promi 
nent.  Robert  Hilliard  first  tried  commercial  life  in  a  broker's 
office  in  Wall  street,  but,  becoming  interested  in  amateur  theatri 
cals  and  being  elected  president  of  the  well-known  Gilbert  Dra 
matic  Society  in  Brooklyn,  an  organization  in  which  he  and 
Edith  Kingdon,  now  Mrs.  George  Gould,  played  leading  parts,  he 
determined  to  adopt  the  stage  as  a  profession.  He  leased  the 
Criterion  Theatre,  Brooklyn,  and  made  his  first  professional  ap 
pearance  in  "False  Shame"  there  January  18,  1886.  He  also 
played  in  "Engaged"  and  in  "Led  Astray"  at  his  own  theatre.  His 
next  engagement  was  with  Charles  Frohman  in  "Saints  and 
Sinners,"  and  "The  Golden  Giant."  After  seasons  with  Mrs. 
Langtry  and  Nat  Goodwin  Mr.  Hilliard  starred  in  "Mr.  Barnes 
of  New  York,"  and  made  one  of  his  greatest  successes  in  "Blue 


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Jeans."  Other  conspicuous  parts  he  played  were  Richard  Gray 
in  "Adrift,"  and  the  Earl  of  Woodstock  in  "Sporting  Life."  la 
1901  he  was  featured  by  Charles  and  Daniel  Frohman  in  "Wheels 
Within  Wheels."  He  also  starred  successive  seasons  with  Paul 
Arthur  in  "The  Nominee,"  and  alone  in  "Lost  24  Hours,"  "The 
Mummy,"  and  "The  Sleepwalker."  For  years  he  played  a  one- 
act  drama,  called  "The  Littlest  Girl,"  in  the  vaudeville  houses, 
and  in  the  fall  of  1905  he  created  the  part  of  Dick  Johnson 
(Remerrez,  the  road  agent)  in  David  Belasco's  "Girl  of  the 
Golden  West."  The  season  of  1906-7  he  again  went  into  vaude 
ville  with  a  one-act  sketch,  "Convict  983,"  and  the  season  of 
1907-8  appeared  in  "The  Man  Who  Won  the  Pool,"  also  a  playlet. 
In  1881  Mr.  Hilliard  married  Cora  Bell,  a  daughter  of  Franklin 
Bell,  of  Brooklyn,  who  obtained  a  divorce  from  him  April  21, 
1894,  and  the  custody  of  their  only  son,  then  twelve  years  old. 
In  September,  1896,  Mr.  Hilliard  married,  in  Jersey  City,  Mrs. 
Nellie  E.  Murphy,  who  had  obtained  a  divorce  from  her  husband, 
Edgar  Gibbs  Murphy,  a  well-known  wing  shot.  Before  her  first 
marriage  she  was  Nellie  E.  Whitehouse,  of  New  York.  Mr.  Hil- 
liard's  son  is  now  an  ensign  in  the  United  States  Navy,  having 
graduated  No.  3  in  his  class  at  Annapolis  three  years  ago. 

HITCHCOCK,  Raymond: 

Comedian,  was  born  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  October  22,  1871.  Be 
ing  successful  as  an  amateur  actor,  he  decided  to  adopt  the  stage 
as  a  profession.  Obtaining  an  engagement  in  New  York  to  play 
leading  parts  on  the  road,  he  and  the  management  mutually  dis 
covered  that  he  was  unsuited  to  the  part  of  Ingomar,  and,  find 
ing  himself  stranded  in  Philadelphia,  Mr.  Hitchcock  obtained 
work  in  Wanamaker's  store,  where  he  remained  a  year.  He  next 
was  engaged  by  William  T.  Carleton  and  sang  in  the  chorus  of 
"The  Brigand"  for  a  salary  of  sixteen  dollars  a  week.  He  got 
his  first  real  opportunity  in  Montreal  when  Charles  A.  Bigelow 
fell  ill,  and  he  was  called  on  to  take  the  comedian's  part  at  short 
notice.  His  next  engagement  was  for  the  part  of  Sir  Tobin  To- 
pax  in  "The  Golden  Wedding,"  after  which  he  became  leading 
comedian  in  the  Castle  Square  Opera  Company,  playing  a  variety 
of  parts  in  standard  light  opera.  He  was  the  original  Uncle 
Shank  in  "We  'Uns  of  Tennessee,"  and  afterward  appeared  in 
George  W.  Lederer's  productions  of  "A  Dangerous  Maid,"  and 
"Three  Little  Lambs."  He  supported  May  Irwin  in  "The  Belle 
of  Bridgeport,"  played  a  season  with  "The  Burgomaster,"  and 
later  appeared  in  "Vienna  Life"  and  in  the  original  cast  of  "Miss 
Bob  White."  Mr.  Hitchcock  became  a  star  under  the  manage 
ment  of  Henry  W.  Savage  in  "King  Dodo,"  produced  in  Chicago 


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early  in  1902  and  taken  the  same  year  to  Daly's  Theatre,  New 
York.  Mr.  Hitchcock  then  starred  in  "Easy  Dawson,"  "The  Gal 
loper,"  and  "The  Student  King."  The  season  of  1907-8  he  starred 
in  "The  Yankee  Tourist."  Mr.  Hitchcock  married  Miss  Flora 
Zabelle,  an  actress. 

HITE,  Miss  Mabel  (Mrs.  Michael  J.  Donlin) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Ashland,  Ky.,  May  30,  1885,  being  the 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lewis  Hite.  She  made  her  first  ap 
pearance  on  the  stage  when  eleven  years  old  as  the  Lord  Chan 
cellor  in  an  amateur  performance  of  "lolanthe."  Her  first  pro 
fessional  engagement  was  with  Dunn  &  Ry ley's  company  in  "The 
Milk  White  Flag,"  in  which  she  played  the  part  of  Pony  Luce. 
She  made  her  first  marked  success  as  Estelle  in  "The  Telephone 
Girl,"  playing  Miss  Lipman's  part.  She  also  achieved  success  as 
Quirinssa  in  "The  Girl  and  the  Bandit."  Since  then  she  has  ap 
peared  chiefly  in  vaudeville  sketches  with  Walter  Jones  in  all  the 
principal  theatres  of  the  Keith-Proctor  and  Percy  Williams  cir 
cuits  and  also  at  Hammerstein's.  Miss  Hite,  unlike  many  other 
young  soubrettes,  is  not  afraid  to  distort  her  features,  assume 
ungainly  attitudes  and  wear  unattractive  but  laughter-inspiring 
apparel.  She  has  made  a  specialty  of  playing  uncouth  and  un 
gainly  girls,  and  seeks  to  be  funny  rather  than  to  look  hand 
some  on  the  stage.  In  her  sketch  with  Mr.  Jones  she  plays  the 
part  of  an  actress  who  assumes  to  be  half-witted,  and  by  her 
clever  acting  wins  the  love  of  the  man  she  loves.  The  season 
of  1906  Miss  Hite  and  Mr.  Jones  played  an  extended  tour.  The 
following  season  she  co-starred  with  John  Slavin  in  "A  Knight 
for  a  Day."  Miss  Hite  is  a  baseball  enthusiast,  and  early  in 
1906  she  became  the  wife  of  Michael  J.  Donlin,  the  well-known 
baseball  player. 

HOBART,  George  V.: 

Playwright,  was  born  at  Cape  Breton,  Nova  Scotia,  January 
16,  1867,  and  was  educated  there.  He  was  employed  on  the  staffs 
of  the  New  York  Herald  and  New  York  American,  during  which 
time  he  wrote  the  sketches  "John  Henry"  and  "Dinkelspiel."  Mr. 
Hobart  is  the  librettist  of  "After  Office  Hours,"  "Hodge  Podge 
and  Company,"  "The  New  Yorkers,"  with  Glen  McDonough;  "The 
Hall  of  Fame,"  with  Sydney  Rosenfeld;  "The  Wild  Rose,"  with 
Harry  B.  Smith;  "The  Darling  of  the  Gallery  Gods,"  "Sally  in 
Our  Alley,"  "The  Military  Maid,"  "Peaches,"  "Mrs.  Wilson,  That's 
All,"  which  was  later  changed  to  "Mrs.  Wilson  Andrews";  and, 
in  1907,  the  vaudeville  musical  sketch  "Miss  Camille,"  a  bur 
lesque  on  present-day  comic  opera.  He  is  also  the  author  of 


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the  vaudeville  sketches  "The  Song  Birds"  and  "The  Wheel  of 
Love,"  and  the  burlesque  of  "The  Merry  Widow,"  produced  at 
Weber's  Theatre,  New  York,  January,  1908.  Mr.  Hobart's  home 
is  at  301  West  One  Hundred  and  Ninth  street,  New  York. 

HOFFMAN,  Miss  Maud: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Kentucky,  and  made  her  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  in  Boston,  Mass.,  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet"  for 
one  week  only.  For  a  season  she  played  small  parts  in  E.  S. 
Willard's  company,  and  then  was  seen  with  Wilson  Barrett  two 
seasons,  playing  in  Shakespearian  repertoire.  She  was  then  en 
gaged  by  Augustin  Daly  for  "The  School  for  Scandal"  with  Ada 
Rehan,  but  later  returned  to  Willard's  company  as  leading  lady 
for  twro  years.  She  had  the  leading  ingenue  part  in  "The  Great 
Ruby,"  produced  at  the  Drury  Lane  Theatre,  London,  in  1898r 
and  subsequently  created  the  role  of  Berenice  in  "The  Sign  of 
the  Cross"  with  Barrett.  The  season  of  1902-3  she  was  the  late 
Richard  Mansfield's  leading  woman  and  then  appeared  as  Salome 
in  a  revival  of  "Dandy  Dick"  at  the  Wyndham  Theatre,  London. 
While  in  London  she  toured  the  provinces  with  E.  S.  Willard  the 
season  of  1904-5.  The  fall  of  1905  she  played  the  title  role  in 
"Leah  Kleschna"  on  tour  under  the  management  of  Charles  Froh- 
man,  and  the  season  of  1906-7  appeared  as  the  Countess  of  Roque- 
laure  in  "Brigadier  Gerard"  in  England. 

HOLLAND,  Edmund  Milton: 

Actor  was  born  in  New  York  September  7,  1848,  being  the 
second  son  of  George  Holland,  a  well-known  comedian,  and  Cathe 
rine  (DeLuce)  Holland,  and  the  brother  of  Joseph  and  George 
Holland.  He  was  educated  at  the  public  schools.  He  made  his 
first  appearance  on  the  stage  as  a  baby,  being  carried  on  by  his 
father  in  the  play  "To  Parents  and  Guardians."  When  he  was 
fifteen  he  was  made  call  boy  at  Mrs.  John  Wood's  Olympic  Thea 
tre,  and  about  the  same  time  he  played  one  of  the  children  in  "A 
Day  After  the  Fair."  For  three  years  he  worked  at  Mrs.  Wood's 
theatre  for  a  salary  of  six  dollars  a  week  and  then  was  engaged 
for  small  parts  at  Barnum's  Museum.  He  next  appeared  with 
Joseph  Jefferson  in  the  first  production  in  New  York  of  "Rip 
Van  Winkle."  In  1867  Mr.  Holland  joined  Lester  Wallack's  com 
pany.  Up  to  that  time  his  stage  name  had  been  E.  Milton.  For 
thirteen  years  he  remained  a  member  of  the  Wallack  organiza 
tion,  his  first  part  being  in  "A  New  Way  to  Pay  Old  Debts."  His 
most  pronounced  success  was  as  Silky  in  "The  Road  to  Ruin." 
After  leaving  Wallack  in  1880,  Mr.  Holland  played  a  short  en 
gagement  under  A.  M.  Palmer  as  Rifflandini  in  "French  Flats," 


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after  which  he  went  to  London  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McKee  Rankin, 
playing  the  Judge  in  "The  Danites."  Returning  to  this  country 
he  played  Major  McTurtle  in  "  Mother-in-Law, "  and  the  Deacon 
in  "After  the  Ball"  at  Abbey's  Star  Theatre,  New  York.  In  1882 
he  played  Pittacus  Green  in  "Hazel  Kirke."  When  Mr.  Palmer 
assumed  control  of  the  Madison  Square  Theatre  Mr.  Holland  be 
came  a  member  of  his  stock  company,  in  which  organization  he 
remained  until  the  end  of  the  season  of  1894-5.  His  best  known 
characters  there  and  those  which  he  was  the  first  to  portray  in 
this  country  included  Captain  Redwood  in  "Jim  the  Penman," 
Mr.  Gardiner  in  "Captain  Swift,"  Berkley  Brue  in  "Aunt  Jack," 
Gregory  in  "A  Pair  of  Spectacles,"  Lot  Burden  in  "Saints  and 
Sinners,"  and  Colonel  Cater  in  "Colonel  Carter  of  Cartersville. " 
Mr.  Holland,  in  conjunction  with  his  brother  Joseph,  first  ap 
peared  as  a  star  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  September 
2,  1895,  in  "A  Man  With  a  Past."  The  seasons  of  1895-6  and 
1896-7  the  Holland  brothers  starred  in  "A  Social  Highwayman," 
and  later  E.  M.  Holland  appeared  as  Eben  Holden  in  the  play  of 
that  name  under  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman.  He 
played  Pope  Pius  X  in  "The  Eternal  City"  in  1902-3,  and  Cap 
tain  Bedford  in  "Raffles"  with  Kyrle  Bellew  from  1903  to  1906. 
The  fall  of  1906  he  was  seen  in  "The  Measure  of  a  Man,"  and 
in  1907  he  entered  the  vaudeville  field,  appearing  in  "The  Phan 
tom  Highwayman"  and  later  was  seen  as  the  Bishop  in  "The 
Duel"  with  Otis  Skinner.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  starred  in 
"The  House  of  a  Thousand  Candles."  Mr.  Holland  is  a  member 
of  The  Lambs  and  The  Players. 

HOLLINS,  Miss  Mabel: 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  on  Christmas  Day,  1887,  In  Lon 
don.  Her  mother  was  a  noted  operatic  singer;  her  father  Red- 
fern  Hollins,  the  well-known  English  tenor,  and  her  uncle  Julian 
Edwards,  the  composer.  In  1890  Miss  Hollins  was  brought  to 
this  country  by  her  family,  and  three  years  later  her  sister 
Maude,  then  playing  with  Richard  Mansfield  in  "The  Scarlet  Let 
ter,"  took  her  on  tour  with  that  company.  Mr.  Mansfield,  after  a 
talk  with  Miss  Mabel,  insisted  that  she  play  the  part  of  Pearl,  a 
juvenile,  in  his  support.  At  the  end  of  the  tour  the  youthful 
actress  returned  home  and  began  the  study  of  music.  Although 
it  was  never  intended  that  she  should  go  on  the  stage,  Miss  Hol 
lins  took  part  in  several  amateur  performances  at  the  Park  Hill 
Country  Club  in  Yonkers,  and  played  Peep-Bo  in  "The  Mikado." 
A  year  or  two  later,  during  a  summer  season  of  comic  opera  at 
the  Grand  Opera  House,  New  York,  William  Stewart,  having  seen 
Miss  tfollins's  work  as  an  amateur,  selected  her  for  the  part  of 


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Molly  Seymour  in  "The  Geisha,"  which  she  played  with  marked 
success.  All  doubt  as  to  her  future  vanished,  and  F.  C.  Whitney 
secured  her  for  Nora  Melon  in  "Piff,  Faff,  Pouf,"  which  ran  al 
most  a  year  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York,  and  later  played 
the  larger  cities.  Following  this,  Miss  Hollins  created  the  part 
of  Daisy  in  "His  Honor  the  Mayor,"  which  opened  at  the  Chicago 
Opera  House.  After  a  long  engagement  there  the  company  toured 
the  Middle  West  and  later  settled  at  the  New  York  Theatre  for 
a  long  summer  run.  During  this  engagement  of  "His  Honor  the 
Mayor"  Charles  Frohman  engaged  Miss  Hollins  to  play  Lady 
Dorothy  in  "The  Little  Cherub"  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New 
York,  and  she  left  the  part  of  Daisy  at  the  height  of  its  popular 
ity,  only  to  achieve  a  greater  success  in  her  new  role  which  she 
played  throughout  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8.  Miss  Hollins  is  a  tal 
ented  pianiste  and  has  composed  several  songs,  some  of  which 
have  already  been  published.  Her  home  is  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

HOPPEE,  Miss  Edna  Wallace: 

Comedienne  and  light  opera  singer,  was  born  in  San  Fran 
cisco,  Cal.,  her  father  being  Walter  Wallace,  a  baseball  scorer  and 
theatre  usher  of  that  city.  After  his  death  her  mother  was  mar 
ried  to  Alexander  Dunsmuir,  a  Canadian,  who  lived  in  San  Fran 
cisco.  He  died  in  New  York  in  January,  1900,  forty  days  after 
his  marriage  to  Mrs.  Wallace,  leaving  a  fortune  valued  at  be 
tween  eight  and  ten  million  dollars  to  his  brother,  James  Duns 
muir,  ex-Premier  of  British  Columbia.  His  widow  compromised 
her  claim  on  the  estate  for  an  annuity  of  $25,000,  which  ceased 
at  her  death.  After  her  death  Edna  Wallace  brought  suit  in  the 
Canadian  courts,  where  the  will  was  probated,  for  one-third  of 
the  estate,  to  which  her  mother  was  entitled  under  the  laws  of 
California.  The  Canadian  courts  upheld  the  will,  and  the  case 
was  taken  by  Miss  Hopper  to  the  Privy  Council,  the  British 
court  of  last  resort,  in  London.  Edna  Wallace  was  educated  at 
Vanness  Seminary,  San  Francisco.  The  late  Roland  Reed  was 
responsible  for  her  desire  to  become  an  actress.  He  met  her 
when  she  was  about  seventeen  years  old,  and  jokingly  offered  her 
a  place  in  his  company  which  was  then  playing  in  San  Francisco. 
Although  her  parents  did  not  approve  of  it,  she  accepted  the 
offer  and  August  17,  1891,  made  her  first  stage  appearance  with 
Mr.  Reed's  company  at  the  Boston  Museum  as  Mabel  Douglass 
in  "The  Club  Friend."  Two  weeks  later  she  made  her  first  New 
York  appearance,  playing  the  same  part  at  the  Star  Theatre 
where,  six  weeks  later,  she  played  the  ingenue  role  in  "Lend  Me 
Your  Wife."  Her  work  attracting  the  approval  of  Charles  Froh 
man,  he  engaged  her  for  his  forces,  and  with  them  she  appeared 


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as  Lucy  Morton  in  "Jane,"  Mrs.  Patterby  in  "Chums,"  Margery 
in  "Men  and  Women,"  and  Wilbur's  Ann  in  "The  Girl  I  Left 
Behind  Me."  In  the  last-named  her  playing  received  most  fa 
vorable  comment.  She  was  married  to  De  Wolf  Hopper  June  28, 
1895,  while  she  was  playing  Wilbur's  Ann,  becoming  Mr.  Hop 
per's  third  wife.  A  few  weeks  afterward,  Delia  Fox  becoming 
ill,  Miss  Hopper  jumped  into  her  part  as  Paquita  in  "Panjan 
drum,"  and  made  of  her  first  essay  in  the  comic  opera  field  a 
remarkable  success.  Thereafter  she  played  with  her  husband 
as  Merope  Mallow  in  "Dr.  Syntax,"  Mataya  in  "Wang,"  and  cre 
ated  in  April,  1896,  the  part  of  Estrelda  in  "El  Capitan,"  by 
John  Philip  Sousa.  The  Hoppers  had  domestic  difficulties,  sepa 
rated  in  1898,  and  were  divorced,  Mr.  Hopper  marrying  Miss  Ber 
gen.  Thereafter  Edna  Wallace  Hopper  appeared  in  "Yankee 
Doodle  Dandy,"  an  extravaganza;  with  JLillian  Russell  in  a  re 
vival  of  "La  Belle  Helene,"  and  in  1899-1900  with  Jerome  Sykes 
in  the  extravaganza  "Chris  and  the  Wonderful  Lamp,"  acting 
the  role  of  Chris.  The  season  of  1905-6  she  played  in  vaudeville. 
The  season  of  1906-7  she  was  a  member  of  Lew  Fields's  company 
in  "About  Town."  In  1908  she  starred  in  George  M.  Cohan's 
"Fifty  Miles  from  Boston."  Her  address  is  863  Seventh  avenue, 
New  York. 

HOPPER,  William  De  Wolf: 

Comedian,  was  born  in  New  York  March  30,  1858;  is  de 
scended  from  the  well-known  colonial  De  Wolf  family  on  his 
mother's  side  and  allied  by  marriage  to  the  Belmonts,  Tiffanys, 
Perrys,  Lawrences  and  Aspinwalls.  The  old  De  Wolf  homestead 
at  Bristol,  R.  I.,  in  which  State  the  family  was  famous  and 
wealthy  in  the  days  of  the  Revolution,  was  only  recently  sold. 
His  mother,  Miss  Rosalie  De  Wolf,  traced  her  genealogy  back 
to  the  eleventh  century,  the  founder  of  the  family  being  known 
as  Olf  the  Sharp  Eyed.  De  Wolf  Hopper's  father,  John  Hopper, 
came  from  Quaker  stock.  He  was  a  lawyer,  and  it  was  intended 
that  his  son  should  follow  the  same  profession.  De  Wolf  Hopper 
studied  law,  however,  for  only  six  months.  He  acted  in  an  ama 
teur  performance  of  "Conscience"  at  the  Fourteenth  Street  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  and  immediately  decided  to  become  a  professional 
actor.  With  $50,000  which  he  received  at  his  father's  death  he 
organized  his  own  company,  calling  it  the  Criterion  Comedy  Com 
pany,  and  with  it  he  made  his  professional  debut  as  Talbot 
Champneys  in  "Our  Boys."  The  company  also  played  "Caste." 
The  company  was  a  failure,  but  Mr.  Hopper  had  some  money 
and  unbounded  confidence  still  left,  and  his  next  venture  was  to 


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manage  and  finance  a  tour  through  the  South  and  West  of  "One 
Hundred  Wives."  The  stranding  of  his  company  ended  his 
managerial  career.  He  then  became  a  humble  actor,  and  was  en 
gaged  by  Edward  Harrigan  for  a  part  in  "The  Blackbird."  After 
this  he  studied  singing  for  a  time,  with  the  intention  of  taking 
up  grand  opera,  but  abandoned  the  plan  to  accept  an  engagement 
with  Daniel  Frohman  in  the  Madison  Square  Theatre  Company 
in  1884.  He  appeared  at  that  theatre  as  Pittacus  Greene  in 
"Hazel  Kirke,"  and  Owen  Hathaway  in  "May  Blossom."  Then 
he  again  looked  longingly  at  the  grand  opera  stage  and  resumed 
vocal  study.  Comic  opera,  instead  of  grand,  he  soon  learned, 
was  to  be  his  forte.  In  the  fall  of  1885  he  joined  the  McCaull 
Opera  Company  forces,  and,  being  called  on  at  the  last  moment 
to  play  Pomeret  in  "Desiret"  at  the  Broad  Street  Opera  House, 
Philadelphia,  acted  the  part  so  well  that  he  was  at  once  made 
chief  comedian  of  the  company,  with  which  he  played  in  "The 
Black  Hussar,"  "The  Beggar  Student,"  "Die  Fledermaus,"  "The 
Lady  or  the  Tiger,"  "Don  Caesar,"  "Loraine,"  "Bellman,"  "Jo 
sephine  Sold  by  Her  Sister,"  "Falka,"  "Folback,"  "Boccaccio," 
"The  Crowing  Hen,"  "Clover,"  "Fatinitza,"  "The  Begum,"  and 
"Captain  Fracasse."  Mr.  Hopper  first  became  a  star  in  1890  un 
der  the  management  of  Locke  &  Davis  in  the  opera  "Castles  in 
the  Air."  The  following  season  he  brought  out  "Wang,"  by 
J.  Cheever  Goodwin  and  the  late  Woolson  Morse,  and  it  proved 
his  first  great  success.  It  ran  for  two  seasons.  "Panjandrum" 
followed,  running  for  a  season.  He  produced  "Dr.  Syntax"  in 
October,  1895,  and  followed  this  with  "El  Capitan,"  by  John 
Philip  Sousa,  in  which  he  opened  in  Boston  April  13,  1896.  In 
1898  he  took  "El  Capitan"  to  London,  where  it  met  with  aston 
ishing  success,  and  he  also  did  very  well  there  with  "The  Char 
latan,"  under  the  title  of  "The  Mystical  Miss."  He  later  ap 
peared  as  a  member  of  the  all-star  stock  company  at  the  Weber 
&  Fields  Music  Hall,  New  York,  and  left  that  organization  to 
head  his  own  company  in  "Mr.  Pickwick."  After  a  revival  of 
"Wang"  in  1904  he  appeared,  the  seasons  of  1905-6-7,  under  the 
management  of  the  Shuberts  in  De  Koven's  "Happyland,"  which 
ran  the  entire  season.  Mr.  Hopper  has  also  played  Falstaff  in 
"The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,"  and  David  in  an  all-star  pro 
duction  of  "The  Rivals."  Mr.  Hopper  has  married  four  times. 
His  first  wife  was  Ella  Gardiner,  his  second  cousin  on  his 
mother's  side.  They  were  divorced,  and  he  married  Ida  Mosher, 
of  Boston,  a  member  of  the  McCaull  chorus.  They  had  one  child, 
a  boy.  They  were  divorced  in  1886.  He  married  Edna  Wallace 
on  January  28,  1893.  They  were  divorced  in  1898,  and  the  fol 
lowing  year  Mr.  Hopper  married  Nella  Reardon  Bergen,  who  had 


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shared  his  success  in  "El  Capitan."     Mr.  Hopper  is  a  member  of 
The  Lambs. 

HOWARD,  Bronson: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Detroit  on  October  7,  1842.  His 
father  was  a  ship  owner  and  the  Mayor  of  Detroit  in  1849.  He 
was  educated  at  Russle's  Institute,  New  Haven,  Conn.  He  began 
life  as  a  newspaper  man  and  worked  on  the  Evening  Mail,  the 
Tribune  and  the  Evening  Post,  New  York,  in  1862.  Four  years 
later  he  retired  from  journalism  to  devote  himself  to  dramatic 
authorship.  During  a  long  career  as  a  dramatist  he  has  written 
scores  of  comedies  and  dramas,  the  most  successful  of  which 
have  been  "Saratoga,"  produced  in  1870;  "Diamonds,"  1872; 
"Moorcroft,"  1874;  "The  Banker's  Daughter,"  1878;  "Old  Love 
Letters,"  1878;  "Hurricanes,"  1878;  "Wives,"  1879;  "Young  Mrs. 
Winthrop,"  1882;  "One  of  Our  Girls,"  1885;  "Met  by  Chance," 
1887;  "The  Henrietta,"  1887;  "Shenandoah,"  1889;  "Aristocracy," 
1892,  and  "Peter  Stuyvesant"  (in  collaboration  with  Brander  Mat 
thews),  1899.  Mr.  Howard  is  president  of  the  American  Dram 
atists  and  a  member  of  the  Authors'  and  Lotos  clubs  and  The 
Players,  New  York;  the  Savage  and  Green  Room  clubs,  London, 
and  the  Prismatics,  Detroit.  Mr.  Howard  married  Miss  Alice 
Wyndham,  a  sister  of  Sir  Charles  Wyndham,  in  London  October 
28,  1880. 

HOWARD,  Florence: 

Actress,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  September  16,  1879,  her 
father  at  one  time  having  been  proprietor  of  one  of  the  leading; 
playhouses  in  her  native  city.  She  began  her  career  with  a> 
"thinking  part"  in  "The  White  Heather"  at  the  Academy,  St.. 
Louis,  and  later  was  one  of  the  dancing  girls  in  "The  Conquer 
ors."  She  then  became  understudy  to  May  Buckley  in  "Hearts; 
Are  Trump,"  and  under  similar  circumstances  was  John  Drew's, 
leading  lady  in  "The  Second  in  Command"  for  a  week,  owing  to> 
Margaret  Dale's  illness.  Miss  Howard  was  seen  last  season  in 
"Mrs.  Leffingwell's  Boots." 

HOWARD,  Harold  (David  Harold  Howard)  : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Rutland,  Vt,  August  22,  1875,  and  was 
educated  at  St.  John's  College  and  A.  A.  D.  A.  He  made  his 
first  appearance  as  Martin  in  "Aristocracy"  at  Palmer's,  now 
Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  under  the  management  of  Charles 
Frohman  in  1892.  He  then  played  Sir  Richard  Cursitor  in  "Sow 
ing  the  Wind"  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  Boston;  Jimmie  Stokes 
in  "The  Masqueraders"  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  New  York; 


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Bloc  in  "Zaza,"  and  a  small  part  in  "Du  Barry"  under  the  man 
agement  of  David  Belasco.  He  played  Picard  in  Klaw  and  Er- 
langer's  all-star  revival  of  "The  Two  Orphans"  on  tour,  and  was 
the  First  Retainer  in  "The  Blot  on  the  'Scutcheon"  with  Mrs. 
Le  Moyne  at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New  York.  After  trying  ranch 
life  in  Texas  for  six  months,  he  heeded  the  call  of  the  "great 
white  way"  and  became  a  member  of  the  Belasco  company  at 
the  Belasco  Theatre,  New  York,  making  conspicuous  successes 
with  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  as  the  Due  de  Bressac  in  "Zaza," 
Holy  Negar  in  "Adrea,"  and  Due  de  Richelieu  in  "Du  Barry." 
The  seasons  of  1905-6-7  Mr.  Howard  played  Mr.  Ditson  in  "The 
Music  Master"  with  David  Warfield.  His  favorite  recreations  are 
sailing,  swimming  and  tennis.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Players, 
New  York,  and  his  summer  home  is  at  the  Surf  Hotel,  Fire 
Island,  N.  Y. 

HOWARD,  Miss  Mabel: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  September  3,  1884, 
and  was  educated  at  St.  Bartholomew's  School  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  to  which  city  she  moved  later.  She  became  prominent  in 
amateur  dramatics  there  and  finally,  desirous  of  becoming  a  pro 
fessional,  took  a  course  at  the  American  Academy  of  Dramatic 
Arts.  Her  first  stage  appearance  was  made  in  "Cyrano  de  Ber- 
gerac"  with  the  late  Richard  Mansfield  in  1898.  Shortly  after 
ward  she  appeared  in  David  Belasco's  production  of  "Zaza"  with 
Leslie  Carter,  creating  the  part  of  Madame  Dufrene.  The  sea 
son  of  1898-9  she  toured  the  West  in  the  title  role  of  that  play, 
and  the  following  season  was  seen  in  the  leading  part  in  "The 
Heart  of  Maryland."  She  supported  William  Gillette  in  "Sher 
lock  Holmes,"  and  then  was  seen  with  Ada  Rehan  and  Otis  Skin 
ner  in  repertoire.  Since  her  appearance  with  Ezra  Kendall  in 
"Weather-beaten  Benson"  Miss  Howard  has  not  been  seen  on  the 
stage,  owing  to  illness. 

HOWE,  Willard: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Pittston,  Pa.,  December  25,  1898,  and  was 
educated  at  Wyoming  Seminary,  Kingston,  Pa.,  and  Yale  Univer 
sity.  When  at  college  he  developed  a  taste  for  things  theatrical 
and  was  president  of  the  Yale  Dramatic  Association.  For  three 
years  after  his  graduation  he  appeared  as  a  monologist  on  lyceum 
platforms  throughout  the  country.  His  first  professional  appear 
ance  as  an  actor  was  as  Thomas  in  "She  Stoops  to  Conquer" 
April  17,  1905,  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New  York,  un 
der  the  management  of  Liebler  &  Co.  The  following  season  he 
played  light  comedy  roles  for  forty  weeks  at  the  Castle  Square 


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Theatre,  Boston.  The  season  of  1906-7  he  played  the  part  of 
Frank  Braydon  in  "Brewster's  Millions"  at  the  New  Amsterdam 
and  Hudson  theatres,  New  York,  and  Colonial  Theatre,  Chicago. 
Mr.  Howe's  permanent  address  is  Yale  Club,  30  West  Forty-fourth 
street,  New  York  City. 

HOYT,  Edward  N. : 

Actor,  was  born  near  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  in  1859,  and  was  edu 
cated  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  worked  as  an  office  boy  before 
making  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  Brooklyn  in  1877 
as  Harvey  Green  in  "Ten  Nights  in  a  Barroom"  with  Frank 
Ray.  He  was  leading  man  with  the  late  Joseph  Proctor,  and  in 
1884  was  in  stock  company  at  the  Halstead  Street  Opera  House, 
Chicago.  The  following  season  he  joined  the  McVickar  Stock 
Company,  in  which  were  Robert  Mantell,  Louis  James,  Herbert 
Kelsey,  Ida  Vernon,  Helen  Bancroft  and  Viola  Allen.  He  then 
played  two  seasons  with  Frederick  James  and  four  seasons  with 
Louis  Warde.  In  1891-2  Mr.  Hoyt  played  Dan  Shapleigh  in  Wai- 
lack's  production  of  "The  Bandit  King."  He  then  joined  Charles 
B.  Hanford  in  "Julius  Caesar."  He  afterward  supported  Frank 
Mayo  the  elder,  Walker  Whiteside,  Robert  Downing,  Margaret 
Mather  and  Madame  Modjeska.  He  made  his  first  marked  suc 
cess  as  lago  in  "Othello"  in  1894,  and  later  scored  as  Marcus 
Vinicius  in  "Quo  Vadis"  in  1899;  Mercutio  in  "Romeo  and 
Juliet,"  1902,  and  Jacques  in  "As  You  Like  It,"  1903.  The  fol 
lowing  three  seasons  he  starred  in  "Hamlet."  He  last  appeared 
with  Madame  Modjeska  as  King  Duncan  in  "Macbeth."  Mr. 
Hoyt,  who  is  a  cousin  of  John  L.  Stoddard,  the  author  and  lec 
turer,  married  Miss  Fannie  H.  Malcolm  April  22,  1891.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Actors'  Society,  and  his  home  is  at  119  Main 
street,  Palmyra,  N.  Y. 

HUGHES,  Miss  Annie  (Mrs.  Edmund  F.  Lenon) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Southampton,  England,  in  1869.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Henry  Hughes-Gass,  of  Harrogate,  York 
shire,  and  was  educated  in  North  London  and  at  Queen's  Col 
lege,  Harley  street,  London.  Miss  Hughes  was  only  fifteen  years 
old  when  she  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  "The 
Private  Secretary"  under  the  management  of  Charles  Hawtrey 
at  the  Globe  Theatre,  London.  After  a  short  season  with  Thomas 
Thome  at  the  Vaudeville  she  was  engaged  by  Sir  Charles  Wynd- 
ham,  creating  the  part  of  Caroline  Roffin  in  "A  Man  With  Three 
Wives,"  and  playing  Jennie  Gammon  in  "Wild  Oats,"  and  one  of 
the  Two  Roses  in  a  revival  of  Alberry's  comedy.  Joining  the 
Adelphi  company  she  played  in  "The  Bells  of  Hazlemere,"  and 


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then  went  to  the  Court  Theatre  and  created  the  part  of  Wini 
fred  in  "Mamma,"  and  also  played  with  Mrs.  Kendal  in  "The 
Weaker  Sex."  In  1887  she  was  the  original  Little  Lord  Faunt- 
leroy,  playing  the  part  at  the  trial  matinee.  After  a  season 
with  E.  S.  Willard,  playing  Nancy  in  "The  Middleman/'  Miss 
Hughes  was  married  in  1890  to  Nicholas  Devereux,  a  wealthy 
young  Irishman,  and  announced  her  intention  of  retiring  from 
the  stage.  The  same  year,  however,  she  played  in  "April  Show 
ers"  and  in  "Sweet  Nancy."  She  also  played  Angela  in  "A 
Country  Mouse"  in  1901,  in  "A  Girl  from  School"  in  1903,  and 
in  "Public  Opinion"  in  1905.  In  1904  Miss  Hughes  created  the 
part  of  Eliza  Dibbs  in  R.  C.  Carton's  comedy,  "Mr.  Hopkinson," 
at  the  Avenue  Theatre,  London.  When  the  comedy  was  pro 
duced  in  New  York,  early  in  1906,  Miss  Hughes  made  her  first 
appearance  in  America  in  her  original  part.  Miss  Hughes  is 
now  the  wife  of  Edmund  Fitzmaurice  Lenon,  an  English  actor, 
known  on  the  stage  as  Edmund  Maurice.  Their  home  is  at  4 
Portman  Mansions,  Gloucester  place,  London,  W. 

HUGHES,  Kupert: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Lancaster,  Mo.,  and  was  graduated 
from  Adelpert  College,  Iowa.  His  first  production  was  "The 
Bathing  Girl"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1895, 
which  ran  for  one  consecutive  performance.  In  1902  his  play, 
"The  Wooden  Wedding,"  was  produced  in  London,  and  the  same 
year  his  "Tommy  Rot"  was  produced  at  Mrs.  Osborne's  play 
house  in  New  York.  His  other  plays  are  "In  the  Midst  of  Life," 
"Alexander  the  Great,"  produced  by  Louis  James  and  Frederick 
Warde,  1903;  "The  Triangle,"  produced  at  the  Manhattan  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  1906,  and  "The  Richest  Girl  in  the  World,"  pro 
duced  by  Miss  Grace  George,  1906. 

HUNT,  Phil: 

Manager,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1868.  He  began  his 
theatrical  career  in  1880  with  H.  B.  Mahn's  Juvenile  Opera  Com 
pany.  Engagements  followed  with  various  traveling  and  stock 
companies.  In  1886  he  became  treasurer  and  business  manager 
with  Bennett  and  Moulton's  companies,  followed  by  engagements 
in  a  managerial  capacity  with  Madame  and  Augustin  Neuville, 
N.  S.  Wood,  Joseph  Callahan,  Harry  Lacy  and  for  three  seasons 
with  H.  C.  Miner's  and  W.  A.  Brady's  companies.  In  1894  he 
directed  the  tour  of  Weber  &  Fields's  "The  Trolley  Party,"  and 
in  1895  managed  the  tour  of  the  Washburn  Sisters  in  "Fortuna." 
Three  seasons'  association  with  Arthur  C.  Alston  followed,  and 
in  1900  he  managed  the  tour  of  Ben  Hendricks  in  Jacob  Litt's 


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production  of  "A  Yenuine  Yentleman."  In  1902  he  bought  from 
Mortimer  Murdoch,  the  English  playwright,  "Down  by  the  Sea" 
for  the  sum  of  $300  and  it  cleared  a  profit  of  $18,500  for  Mr. 
Hunt  in  the  following  three  seasons.  In  August,  1905,  at  the 
American  Theatre,  New  York,  he  produced  "Hearts  of  Gold," 
and  the  same  season,  in  December,  "A  Crown  of  Thorns"  at  the 
Fourteenth  Street  Theatre.  Mr.  Hunt's  later  productions  were 
"The  Master  Workman"  and  "An  Outcast  Wife." 

HURLEY,  Alec : 

Vaudeville  actor,  was  born  in  London  March  24,  1871,  and 
before  going  on  the  stage  was  employed  in  a  tea  store.  He  made 
his  first  appearance  in  "The  Harbor  Lights"  in  a  minor  London 
theatre,  and  was  first  seen  in  vaudeville  at  the  Marylebone  Music 
Hall,  London,  singing  comic  songs.  For  a  time  he  worked  with 
his  brother,  as  a  team,  and  in  1890  began  to  make  costermonger 
songs  a  specialty.  His  best  known  songs  are:  "The  Coster's  Sis 
ter,"  "I  Ain't  A-goin'  to  Tell,"  and  "The  Best  Little  Woman  in 
the  Wide,  Wide  World."  The  season  of  1907-8  Mr.  Hurley  ap 
peared  in  vaudeville  theatres  in  this  country  with  a  company 
playing  a  sketch  called  "The  Costers."  Mr.  Hurley  married  Miss 
Marie  Lloyd,  the  well-known  London  music  hall  singer,  in  1906. 
His  home  is  at  Granville  Lodge,  King  Henry's  road,  Regent's 
Park,  London,  England. 

HUTCHINSON",  Miss  Kathryn : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Montpelier,  Vt,  where  her  father  was 
a  church  deacon.  After  graduating  from  the  High  School  there, 
she  made  her  home  with  a  married  sister  in  Boston,  and  studied 
singing  there  under  Mme.  Unger,  who  taught  Mme.  Emma  Eames. 
She  was  singing  in  the  choir  at  the  Roxbury  Unitarian  Church 
in  Boston  when  Edward  E.  Rice  offered  her  an  engagement  in 
"The  Show  Girl,"  in  which  she  made  her  first  stage  appearance 
at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  when  she  was  nineteen  years 
old.  Following  that  she  appeared  in  "A  Midsummer  Night's 
Dream"  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New  York,  with  Nat 
Goodwin.  She  was  then  seen  in  "The  Girl  from  Kay's"  at  the 
Herald  Square  Theatre,  and  the  season  of  1906-7  she  was  with 
Sam  Bernard  in  "The  Rich  Mr.  Hoggenheimer,"  playing  the  part 
of  Mabel  Vane.  The  season  of  1907-8  Miss  Hutchinson  played 
Lucy  Talbot  in  "The  Hoyden"  with  Miss  Elsie  Janis,  opening  at 
the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New  York,  October  19,  1907. 

IRISH,  Miss  Annie  (Mrs.  John  E.  Dodson) : 

Actress,  was  born  at  Warloys,  Huntington  County,  England, 
April  22,  1862,  and  made  her  first  appearance  in  1880  at  the 


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Theatre  Royal,  Nottingham,  England,  under  the  late  W.  H.  Ver- 
non's  management.  Her  London  debut  was  made  seven  years 
later  at  the  Adelphi  Theatre  in  "The  Harbor  Lights,"  succeed 
ing  Mary  Rorke  as  Lena  Nelson.  On  July  28,  1887,  she  appeared 
at  that  theatre  as  Mary  Northcote  in  "The  Bells  of  Haslemere," 
and  in  January,  1889,  at  the  Vaudeville  Theatre,  London,  in  "The 
Poet."  March  following  she  was  seen  as  Kate  Constant  in  "That 
Doctor  Cupid."  In  1891  she  joined  the  late  Sir  Henry  Irving's 
company  and  appeared  with  him,  on  January  5,  as  Hero  in 
"Much  Ado  About  Nothing,"  and  subsequently  in  many  roles  of 
his  repertoire.  In  October  of  that  year  she  appeared  at  the 
Comedy  Theatre,  London,  as  Mrs.  St.  Germain,  with  Charles  Haw- 
trey,  in  "Good  Papa."  In  the  summer  of  1892  she  played  in 
"Moses  and  Son"  at  the  Royalty  Theatre,  London,  and  then  ap 
peared  with  the  Kendals  in  repertoire  on  tour.  She  came  to 
America  with  them  in  the  fall  of  1893,  appearing  as  Ellean  in 
"The  Second  Mrs.  Tanqueray"  at  the  old  Star  Theatre,  New 
York,  on  October  9.  In  1895  she  was  seen  here  in  "The  District 
Attorney";  the  year  following  as  Helen  in  "The  Two  Vagrants," 
and  in  1897  as  Marian  in  "Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles."  In  the 
spring  of  1898  she  played  the  role  of  Lucilla  in  Charles  Henry 
Meltzer's  "His  Honor  the  Mayor";  in  1899,  Gertrude  West  in 
"Because  She  Loved  Him  So,"  and  later  with  Amelia  Bingham 
in  "The  Climbers."  The  season  of  1901-2  she  supported  Mrs. 
Fiske  in  "Miranda  of  the  Balcony,"  and  "The  Unwelcome  Mrs. 
Hatch."  She  starred  the  season  of  1902-3  in  "An  American  In 
vasion,"  and  in  1904  created  the  role  of  Iras  in  Lew  Wallace's 
"Ben  Hur,"  playing  also  that  year  Countess  de  Linieres  in  the 
all-star  production  of  "The  Two  Orphans"  at  the  Manhattan 
Theatre,  New  York.  After  a  short  vaudeville  engagement  she 
appeared  with  the  Harry  Davis  Stock  Company  in  Pittsburg. 
Pa.,  in  May,  1905.  Miss  Irish  has  retired  from  the  stage.  She 
is  the  wife  of  J.  E.  Dodson,  the  well-known  actor. 

ILLINGTON,  Miss  Margaret  (Mrs.  Daniel  Frohman) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Bloomington,  111.,  March  22,  1881.  Her 
maiden  name  was  Maude  Light.  After  studying  dramatic  art 
for  two  years  in  a  Chicago  school,  she  made  her  professional 
debut  playing  a  small  part  in  "The  Pride  of  Jennico"  with  James 
K.  Hackett  in  Daniel  Frohman's  company.  Subsequently  she 
played  the  leading  woman's  role  in  that  romantic  drama.  In 
1902  she  became  a  member  of  Daniel  Frohman's  stock  company 
at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York.  She  afterward  played  a  summer 
engagement  as  leading  woman  of  the  Richmond  (Va.)  Stock 
Company  and  one  season  as  leading  woman  with  E.  H.  Sothern. 


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In  1905  she  created  the  leading  role  in  "The  Japanese  Nightin 
gale"  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York,  and  in  March,  1904,  she 
played  HenrJette  in  the  all-star  cast  revival  of  "The  Two  Or 
phans."  She  was  the  creator  of  the  part  of  Mrs.  Leffingwell  in 
Augustus  Thomas's  comedy,  "Mrs.  Lemngwell's  Boots,"  in  No 
vember,  1905.  She  played  the  leading  woman's  role  in  "The 
Lion  and  the  Mouse"  in  Chicago  in  1906  and  went  to  London 
with  the  company  especially  selected  to  present  that  play  there. 
On  September  3,  1906,  she  appeared  at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New 
York,  as  Nina,  the  leading  woman's  role  in  Arthur  W.  Pinero's 
"His  House  in  Order"  at  its  first  American  production.  On  Sep 
tember  9,  1907,  she  appeared  as  joint  star  with  Kyrle  Bellew  in 
Henri  Bernstein's  "The  Thief"  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New 
York.  Miss  Illington's  home  is  at  159  West  Seventy-ninth  street, 
New  York. 

IRVING,  George  (George  Henry  Irving,  Jr.) : 

Actor,  was  born  at  266  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirtieth 
street,  New  York  City,  which  house  is  still  his  home.  He  was 
educated  at  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  before  go 
ing  on  the  stage  worked  in  the  office  of  a  paper  company  at 
Glens  Falls,  N.  Y.  He  made  his  first  appearance  at  the  Garrick 
Theatre,  New  "York,  in  1896,  playing  a  small  part  in  "Secret 
Service"  with  William  Gillette.  The  following  three  seasons  he 
played  Captain  Halliwell  in  "The  Little  Minister"  with  Maudo 
Adams  and  he  remained  in  her  company  until  1904,  playing  in 
"L'Aiglon,"  "Quality  Street,"  "The  New  Clown,"  "There's  Many 
a  Slip,"  "Imprudence,"  and  "The  Pretty  Sister  of  Jose."  In 
1905  he  played  Bradford  in  "Just  Out  of  College,"  and  the  fol 
lowing  season  he  played  Louis  XV  in  "The  Little  Father  of  the 
Wilderness,"  and  Lydbrook  in  "The  Mountain  Climber"  with 
Francis  Wilson.  The  summer  of  1906  he  was  leading  man  in 
stock  companies  at  Minneapolis,  St.  Paul  and  Parkersburg,  W.  Va., 
and  also  with  the  Sylvan  Players  in  open-air  productions  of 
Shakespearian  plays.  The  summer  of  1907  he  was  leading  man 
with  the  stock  company  at  Utica,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Irving  married  Miss. 
Katherine  Gilman  in  1906.  His  favorite  recreations  are  golf, 
horseback  riding  and  automobiling.  He  is  a  member  The  Play 
ers,  New  York,  and  the  Actors'  Society. 

IRVING,  Henry  Brodribb : 

Actor,  eldest  son  of  Sir  Henry  Irving;  was  born  in  London 
August  5,  1870,  and  educated  at  Marlborough  and  New  College, 
Oxford,  where  he  took  honors  in  history.  On  July  26,  1896,  he 
married  Dorothea  Baird,  an  actress,  who  came  into  prominence 


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as  creator  of  the  part  of  Trilby.  He  was  called  to  the  Bar  in 
1894,  but  never  practised,  preferring  to  follow  his  father's  pro 
fession.  When  twenty-one  he  joined  John  Hare's  company  at 
the  Garrick  Theatre,  London,  appearing  in  " School"  in  1891.  He 
filled  engagements  under  various  managers  and  toured  in  the 
provinces  with  Ben  Greet's  company  in  1895.  He  played  Louis 
Roupell  in  "The  Tree  of  Knowledge,"  and  Sir  William  Beaude- 
vere  in  "The  Ambassador"  with  George  Alexander  at  the  St. 
James's  in  1896-7.  In  1902  he  joined  the  company  of  Charles 
Frohman  at  the  Duke  of  York's  Theatre  to  play  Orlando  in  "The 
Twin  Sisters,"  and  Crichton  in  "The  Admirable  Crichton."  In 
1905  he  appeared  as  Hamlet  at  the  Adelphi  Theatre,  London.  The 
season  of  1906-7  Mr.  Irving  starred  in  conjunction  with  his  wife 
in  "Paolo  and  Francesca"  in  this  country,  opening  at  the  NCTV 
Amsterdam  Theatre  October  1,  1906.  Mr.  Irving  is  the  author  of 
"The  Life  of  Judge  Jeffreys,"  published  in  1898,  and  a  volume 
of  criminal  studies,  entitled  "French  Criminals  of  the  Nineteenth 
Century,"  published  in  1901.  His  home  is  at  Russell  Mansions, 
Southampton  row,  London. 

IRVING,  Miss  Isabel  (Mrs.  W.  H.  Thompson) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  February  28,  1871. 
Soon  after  she  left  school,  and,  without  experience  even  as  an 
amateur,  she  was  engaged  by  Rosina  Yokes  and  made  her  first 
appearance  at  the  Standard  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Ermyntrude 
Johnson  in  "The  School  Mistress"  in  February,  1887.  The  fol 
lowing  season  she  was  engaged  by  Augustin  Daly,  and  remained 
in  his  company  six  years,  appearing  as  Oberon  in  "A  Midsummer 
Night's  Dream,"  Helen  in  "The  Hunchback,"  Audrey  in  "As  You 
Like  It,"  Daisy  in  "Nancy  &  Co.,"  Susan  in  "A  Night  Off,"  Pansy 
in  "The  Great  Unknown,"  and  Faith  in  "The  Last  Word."  She 
played  with  the  company  in  London,  and  also  at  the  Vaudeville 
Theatre,  Paris,  where  she  appeared  in  Ada  Rehan's  part  of  Jo 
in  "The  Lottery  of  Love."  While  in  London  in  1894  Miss  Irving 
resigned  from  the  Daly  company,  and  that  fall  she  played  Lady 
Noeline  in  "The  Amazons"  under  the  management  of  Daniel 
Frohman.  On  the  retirement  of  Georgia  Cayvan,  Miss  Irving  be 
came  leading  woman  of  the  old  Lyceum  Theatre  Company,  New 
York.  While  there  she  played  in  "The  Case  of  Rebellious  Susan," 
"The  Professor  of  Zenda,"  "A  Woman's  Silence,"  "The  Wife," 
"The  Charity  Ball,"  and  "The  Benefit  of  the  Doubt."  In  1897 
she  was  engaged  by  Charles  Frohman  to  succeed  Maude  Adams 
as  leading  woman  for  John  Drew,  a  place  she  occupied  for  sev 
eral  seasons,  during  which  she  played  in  "Rosemary,"  "A  Mar 
riage  of  Convenience,"  "One  Summer  Day,"  "The  Liars,"  and 


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"The  Tyranny  of  Tears."  She  also  appeared  in  several  other 
Frohman  productions,  among  them  being  "The  Husbands  of  Leon- 
tine,"  "Self  and  Lady,"  "The  Romanesques,"  "The  Royal  Rival" 
with  William  Faversham,  and  in  "A  Message  from  Mars"  with 
Charles  Hawtrey.  She  then  was  starred  in  "The  Crisis"  under 
the  management  of  James  K.  Hackett.  She  played  Louise  in  the 
all-star  cast  of  "The  Two  Orphans."  The  season  of  1907-8  she 
starred  in  "The  Girl  Who  Has  Everything"  under  the  manage 
ment  of  Liebler  &  Co. 

IRWIN,  Miss  May  (Mrs.  Kurt  Eisselt) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Whitby,  Ontario,  Canada,  in  1862,  be 
ing  the  daughter  of  Robert  E.  and  Jane  Draper  Campbell.  When 
she  was  eight  years  old  she  was  the  soprano  of  the  village  church 
choir.  She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  with  her  sister  Flor 
ence  at  Daniel  Shelby's  Adelphi  Variety  Theatre,  Buffalo,  in  De 
cember,  1875,  the  sisters  singing  duets.  It  is  recorded  that  Flor 
ence  fainted  after  they  had  done  their  first  turn.  At  the  sug 
gestion  of  Mr.  Shelby  they  adopted  the  name  Irwin  for  stage 
purposes.  Their  combined  salary  was  thirty  dollars  a  week.  In 
1877  the  sisters  were  playing  their  first  sketch,  "On  Board  the 
Mary  Jane,"  at  a  Detroit  variety  theatre.  Tony  Pastor  saw  them 
there  and  engaged  them  for  his  New  York  theatre,  and  they  ap 
peared  for  the  first  time  in  the  metropolis  on  September  13,  1877. 
There  they  played  the  sketch  "A  Rural  Stroll"  for  four  years 
and  played  "leads"  in  the  burlesques.  They  left  Pastor's  in  1884, 
and  May  Irwin  was  engaged  by  Augustin  Daly.  She  made  her 
first  appearance  at  his  theatre  in  Pinero's  "Boys  and  Girls."  She 
became  popular  as  the  creator  of  the  role  of  Susan  in  "A  Night 
Off,"  and  Lucy  in  "The  Recruiting  Officer,"  and  accompanied  Mr. 
Daly's  company  twice  on  its  tours  abroad.  In  1888  she  returned 
to  variety  and  became,  with  her  sister,  a  member  of  the  Howard 
Athenaeum  Company,  Boston.  At  this  time  the  Irwin  sisters 
produced  John  J.  McNally's  first  dramatic  work,  a  sketch  called 
"Home  Rule."  After  appearing  in  H.  Grattan  Donnelly's  "Fash 
ions"  she  appeared  as  Helen  Stockton  in  "The  Junior  Partner" 
with  Henry  Miller  under  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman; 
as  Ophelia  in  the  burlesque  "Poets  and  Puppets,"  and  in  Rus 
sell's  "The  City  Directory."  After  an  engagement  with  Peter 
Dailey  in  "A  Country  Sport"  she,  for  the  first  time,  became  a 
star  with  "The  Widow  Jones,"  by  John  J.  McNally,  which  ran 
through  the  season  of  1895-6.  It  was  at  this  time  that  Miss 
Irwin  began  the  coon-song  singing  which  has  added  so  materially 
to  her  popularity.  She  got  the  idea  through  hearing  negro 
servants  singing  ragtime  at  a  summer  hotel.  The  season  of 


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1896-7  she  again  met  with  success  as  a  star  in  "The  Swell  Miss 
Fitzwell,"  and  the  following  season  appeared  in  "Courted  Into 
Court."  "Kate  Kip,  Buyer,"  "Sister  Mary,"  "The  Belle  of  Bridge 
port,"  "Madge  Smith,  Attorney"  followed  successively  up  to  the 
season  of  1905-6,  when  she  appeared  in  "Mrs.  Black  Is  Back." 
The  season  of  1906-7  she  starred  in  "Mrs.  Wilson  Andrews,"  and 
the  season  of  1907-8  she  was  in  vaudeville.  Miss  Irwin  was 
married  to  Kurt  Eisselt,  her  press  agent  and  manager,  in  the 
spring  of  1907. 

JAMES,  Louis: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Fremont,  111.,  October  3,  1842,  and  made 
his  first  stage  appearance  with  a  Louisville  stock  company  in 
1863.  He  then  joined  Mrs.  John  Drew's  company  in  Philadel 
phia,  and  in  1872  became  a  member  of  Augustin  Daly's  company, 
remaining  with  that  organization  three  seasons.  For  five  years 
following  he  was  leading  man  to  Lawrence  Barrett,  and  in  1886 
he  branched  out  as  a  star  on  his  own  account,  since  which  he 
has  devoted  himself  almost  exclusively  to  Shakespearian  roles 
at  the  head  of  his  own  company.  In  1906  he  made  a  notable  re 
vival  of  "The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,"  and  the  season  of  1907-8 
of  "Henry  VIII,"  and  "The  Comedy  of  Errors." 

JAMES,  Miss  Millie  (Mrs.  Edgar  Seidenberg) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  1876,  being  the  daughter  of  Louis  James, 
the  well-known  actor.  She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  in 
"The  Club  Friend"  in  1894,  and  later  was  seen  in  "The  Senator." 
She  made  her  New  York  debut  in  1900,  appearing  as  Janet  Mar 
lowe  in  "Woman  and  Wine"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New 
York.  She  played  the  role  of  Simplicity  Johnson  in  "Lovers' 
Lane"  the  season  of  1901-2,  and  was  seen  as  Sara  Crewes  in  Fran 
ces  Hodgson  Burnett's  "The  Little  Princess"  during  the  season 
of  1902-3.  The  season  of  1903-4  she  appeared  as  Connie  Bowles 
in  "Glad  of  It"  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York.  She  has  since 
retired  from  the  stage. 

JANIS,  Elsie  (Elsie  Janis  Bierbower) : 

Actress,  was  born  at  Delaware,  Ohio,  March  16,  1889.  Her 
parents  were  of  English,  Scotch-Irish  and  German  ancestry.  As 
a  child  of  three  years  she  began  the  imitations  which  have  since 
placed  her  in  a  class  by  herself  in  that  line  of  stage  work.  In 
her  own  words:  "I  began  imitating  everything,  from  animals  to 
railroad  trains."  While  she  was  living  in  Columbus  she  was 
taken  to  see  James  Neill,  who  was  playing  there  with  his  own 
company.  Being  struck  with  the  personality  of  the  child,  he 


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arranged  to  make  her  a  member  of  his  company,  and  gave  her 
her  first  part,  that  of  the  boy  Cain  in  "The  Charity  Ball."  As 
Cain  she  made  her  first  stage  appearance  December  24,  1897.  Her 
parents  had  known  President  McKinley's  family  in  Columbus, 
and  while  a  guest  at  the  White  House  at  Christmas,  1899,  she 
showed  her  ability  as  an  entertainer  to  an  audience  composed  of 
the  President  and  his  family,  members  of  his  Cabinet  and  Miss 
Janis's  great-uncle,  Senator  Cockrell,  of  Missouri.  Her  talent  for 
mimicry  so  impressed  the  President  that  he  suggested  a  vaude 
ville  stage  career  for  her.  His  advice  was  followed,  and  in  Au 
gust,  1900,  she  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  vaudeville  and 
New  York  stages.  Edward  E.  Rice,  who  was  conducting  summer 
night  concerts  on  the  Casino  Theatre  roof,  engaged  her,  and  un 
der  the  name  of  "Little  Elsie"  she  was  an  instantaneous  success. 
For  the  next  three  years  she  was  a  top  liner  in  the  chief  thea 
tres  of  the  vaudeville  circuit,  her  imitations  of  the  voices,  make 
ups  and  mannerisms  of  various  well-known  actors  being  the 
principal  feature  of  her  performances.  In  1904  she  was  starred 
by  Milton  and  Sargent  Aborn  in  "The  Belle  of  New  York,"  thus 
becoming  a  star  at  the  age  of  fourteen.  Starring  tours  in  "The 
Fortune  Teller,"  and  "The  Duchess,"  which  had  been  played  by 
Alice  Nielsen  and  Anna  Held,  respectively,  followed.  It  was  not, 
however,  until  the  summer  of  1905  that  Miss  Janis  obtained  her 
real  chance  on  Broadway.  Then  the  management  of  the  New 
York  Roof  Garden  selected  her  to  head  their  summer  players. 
She  opened  in  "The  Vanderbilt  Cup"  at  the  Broadway  Theatre, 
New  York,  in  the  fall  of  1905,  and  starred  in  that  play  until  the 
season  of  1907-8  when  she  starred  in  "The  Hoyden,"  opening  at 
the  Knickerbocker  Theatre  October  19,  1907. 

JANSEN,  Marie  (Marie  Johnson) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  where  she  made  her 
professional  debut  in  the  Park  Theatre  September  13,  1881,  in 
the  "Lawn  Tennis"  company.  Then,  at  the  Bijou  Theatre,  New 
York,  she  played  the  Waiting  Maid  to  the  Countess  in  "Oli 
vette,"  and  when  the  company  went  to  Boston  she  was  promoted 
to  play  the  part  of  the  Countess.  In  1883  she  joined  the  forces 
of  Colonel  McCaull  and  appeared  in  "The  Beggar  Student."  That 
was  her  first  real  success.  Mr.  Aronson,  of  the  Casino,  in  New 
York,  heard  her  and  at  once  offered  her  a  position  in  his  com 
pany.  In  the  spring  of  1884  Charles  Wyndham  engaged  her  to 
create  the  title  role  in  "Featherbrain"  in  London,  which  she 
played  for  eight  months.  Then  she  came  back  and  was  engaged 
as  leading  woman  for  Francis  Wilson's  comic  opera  company, 
a  position  which  she  retained  for  several  years.  In  1901  she 


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organized  a  company  of  her  own,  with  which  she  toured  the 
country.  Then  she  retired  from  the  stage.  Her  address  is  Win- 
throp,  Mass. 

JEFFREYS,  Miss  Ellis  (Mrs.  H.  S.  Skelton)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Ireland  May  17,  1868,  being  the  daugh 
ter  of  the  late  Captain  Jeffreys.  She  was  first  married  to  the 
Hon.  Frederic  Curzon,  but  this  marriage  was  afterward  dis 
solved,  and  she  became  the  bride  of  Herbert  Sleath  Skelton,  an 
actor.  Miss  Jeffreys's  first  appearance  on  the  English  stage  was 
in  light  opera,  in  which  she  played  small  parts.  That  line  of 
work  did  not  satisfy  her,  and  she  abandoned  it  for  comedy.  She 
made  an  almost  immediate  success,  and  played  leading  parts  in 
nearly  all  the  West  End  theatres  of  London.  In  1902-3-4  she 
played  the  "leads"  with  Harrison  and  Maude  at  the  Haymarket 
Theatre  in  London,  and  subsequently,  in  1905,  with  Frederick 
Harrison.  In  1904  she  made  a  tour  of  the  United  States  in  com 
pany  with  her  husband,  Mr.  Sleath,  and  achieved  considerable 
success.  In  1905  she  again  came  to  the  United  States  to  play  in 
a  special  production  of  "The  Fascinating  Mr.  Vanderveldt."  She 
opened  the  season  of  1906-7  in  the  United  States  in  "The  Dear 
Unfair  Sex"  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York,  which,  proving 
a  failure,  was  withdrawn.  Later  she  played  Kate  Hardcastle  in 
a  revival  of  "She  Stoops  to  Conquer"  with  W.  H.  Crane  as  Old 
Hardcastle.  The  season  of  1907-8  Miss  Jeffreys  acted  in  London. 
Her  address  is  72  Germyn  street,  London. 

JEFFRIES,  Miss  Maud: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Coahoma  County,  Mississippi,  in  1870, 
and  was  educated  in  Columbia,  Tenn.  When  nineteen  years  old 
she  obtained  an  engagement  to  play  small  parts  in  Augustin 
Daly's  company  in  New  York.  Then  Wilson  Barrett,  the  English 
actor,  engaged  her  for  his  London  company.  Her  first  London 
success  was  in  "The  People's  Idol"  at  the  Olympic  Theatre.  After 
that  she  played  leading  parts  in  Mr.  Barrett's  repertoire.  She 
was  the  original  Kate  in  "The  Manxman,"  and  Ben  My  Chree  in 
Hall  Caine's  adaptation  of  his  novel  "The  Deemster."  She  was 
also  the  original  Mercia  in  "The  Sign  of  the  Cross,"  which  she 
played  with  Wilson  Barrett  all  over  the  world.  She  played  Ma 
rianne  in  Beerbohm  Tree's  production  of  "Herod"  at  His  Majes 
ty's  Theatre,  London,  in  1900,  and  then  toured  through  Aus 
tralia.  The  season  of  1905-6  she  starred  in  repertoire  with  Julius 
Knight.  Miss  Jeffries  is  the  wife  of  a  wealthy  Australian  settler. 
She  has  retired  from  the  stage. 


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JEROME,  Jerome  Klapka: 

Playwright,  was  born  at  Walsall,  England,  May  2,  1859,  and 
began  life  as  a  clerk  in  a  store.  For  a  time  he  was  a  school 
teacher  and  then  joined  a  "barnstorming"  dramatic  company  and 
roughed  it  through  the  English  provinces.  His  book,  "On  the 
Stage  and  Off,"  giving  a  humorous  account  of  his  experiences, 
first  attracted  attention  to  his  writing.  His  first  play  was  "New 
Lamps  and  Old,"  and  best  known  of  his  subsequent  productions 
are  "Barbara,"  "Sunset,"  "Woodbarrow  Farm,"  "The  Prude's 
Progress,"  "Miss  Hobbs,"  and  "Tommy." 

JEWEL,  Miss  Izetta  (Izetta  J.  Kenney) : 

Actress,  was  born  November  24,  1883,  and  was  educated  at 
the  East  Greenwich  Academy,  Rhode  Island,  and  at  the  Ameri 
can  Academy  of  Dramatic  Arts,  New  York  City.  She  made  her 
first  appearance  with  a  summer  stock  company,  May  14,  1900,  at 
Wilmington,  N.  C.,  in  a  played  called  "Triss."  After  consider 
able  experience  in  one-night-stand  companies  she  joined  the  Cas 
tle  Square  Stock  Company  at  Boston,  and  has  since  been  leading 
woman  with  many  important  stock  organizations,  including  those 
at  Proctor's  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fifth  Street  Theatre,  New 
York,  during  the  season  of  1905-6;  the  Colonial  Theatre,  San 
Francisco,  and  Ye  Liberty  Theatre,  Oakland,  Cal.  Miss  Jewel 
was  the  first  to  play  the  part  of  Salome  in  Oscar  Wilde's  tragedy 
of  that  name  in  the  West,  and  was  the  first  leading  woman  to 
play  in  San  Francisco  after  the  earthquake.  Her  favorite  recre 
ation  is  horseback  riding.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Professional 
Woman's  League,  the  Actors'  Church  Alliance,  the  Actors'  Fund, 
the  Actors'  Society  and  the  Playgoers'  Club. 

JEWETT,  Henry: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Australia,  but  spent  his  boyhood  in  Dune- 
din,  New  Zealand.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  had  acquired  a  repu 
tation  as  a  public  reciter.  After  working  on  a  ranch  as  a  cow 
boy  for  a  time  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  Bank  of  New  Zealand. 
In  1879  Mr.  Jewett  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  as 
Ralph  Waters  in  an  amateur  performance  of  "Bitter  Cold"  in 
Dunedin.  He  made  his  first  appearance  as  a  professional  in  Well 
ington,  New  Zealand,  April  1,  1880.  After  a  year  of  stock  work 
in  Dunedin  he  toured  New  Zealand  with  Miss  Louise  Pomeroy. 
Then  he  went  to  Australia,  opening  as  Clifford  Armitage  in  "The 
Lights  o'  London"  in  Ballarat,  Victoria,  December  26,  1882.  Mr. 
Jewett  next  supported  George  Darrell  in  Melbourne,  and  in  1884 
joined  Wybert  Reeve's  company  in  Adelaide.  For  the  next  seven 
or  eight  years  he  was  leading  man  in  many  first-class  companies 


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in  Australia.  In  1892  he  came  to  this  country  and  played  his 
first  part  here  as  Charles  Cashmere  in  the  one-act  play  "My 
Uncle's  Will"  with  the  Stockwell  Theatre  Company.  In  1893  Mr. 
Jewett  was  leading  man  for  Miss  Julia  Marlowe,  playing  the 
whole  of  her  repertoire.  The  following  season  he  was  with 
Richard  Mansfield.  He  created  the  part  of  Sergius  in  George 
Bernard  Shaw's  "Arms  and  the  Man,"  and  with  Miss  Rose  Cogh- 
lan  he  played  in  "Diplomacy."  Mr.  Jewett  appeared  as  Benedict 
Arnold  in  a  drama  of  the  same  name  on  December  27,  1895,  in 
New  York,  and  his  performance  attracted  much  attention.  He 
then  was  seen  as  Cassius  in  "Julius  Caesar,"  and  as  Othello.  The 
summer  of  1896  Mr.  Jewett  organized  a  stock  company  in  Kan 
sas  City  with  himself  as  star  and  supported  by  his  wife,  known 
on  the  stage  as  Miss  Frances  Hastings,  whom  he  married  in 
Sydney,  Australia,  in  1888.  Mr.  Jewett  was  with  Mr.  Mansfield 
again  in  1896-7.  He  supported  Miss  Fanny  Davenport  in  "Joan 
of  Arc,"  and  played  Shakespearian  parts  in  St.  Louis  in  seasons 
following.  Subsequently  he  appeared  in  the  part  of  John  Storm 
in  "The  Christian"  in  Boston. 

JOHNSON,  Miss  Marion  Pollock: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Dubuque,  Iowa.  As  a  member  of  the 
Amateur  Dramatic  Club,  of  Chicago,  she  played  in  many  amateur 
performances  before  appearing  on  the  professional  stage,  on 
which  she  made  her  debut  in  Boston  July  8,  1901,  with  J.  II. 
Gilmore.  She  next  appeared  in  "The  Price  of  Peace"  at  McVick- 
ar's  Theatre,  Chicago,  as  Sister  Agnes  and  general  understudy. 
In  1902  she  played  Patty  Swain  in  "Richard  Carvel,"  and  the 
same  season  joined  Amelia  Bingham's  company,  playing  a  part 
in  "A  Modern  Magdalen."  After  playing  in  "A  Fool  and  His 
Money"  in  1903  she  replaced  Olive  May  in  William  H.  Crane's 
"The  Spenders"  company.  In  1904  she  played  with  the  Bellows 
Stock  Company  in  St.  Louis,  in  1905  with  the  Bush  Temple  Stock 
Company  in  Chicago,  and  in  1905  with  Proctor's  Stock  Company 
in  New  York.  October  23,  1905,  she  created  the  part  of  Kate 
Roberts  in  the  original  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse"  company  at 
the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York,  and  played  the  same  part  the 
seasons  of  1906-7-8. 

JOHNSON,  Owen: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  New  York  City  August  27,  1878,  and 
educated  at  Lawrenceville,  N.  J.,  and  at  Yale  College.  He  was 
the  founder  and  first  editor  of  The  Lawrenceville  Literary  Maga 
zine,  and  is  the  author  of  numerous  books  and  short  stories,  in 
cluding  "In  the  Name  of  Liberty,"  and  "Arrows  of  the  Mighty." 


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His  latest  play,  "The  Comet,"  was  produced  at  the  Bijou  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  December  30,  1907,  with  Alia  Nazimova  in  the 
leading  role.  Mr.  Johnson  married  Miss  Mary  Gait  Stockly, 
.May  23,  1901.  His  home  is  in  Ridgefield,  Conn. 

JONES,  Henry  Arthur: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Brandborough,  Bucks,  England,  Sep 
tember  29,  1851,  being  the  son  of  Silvanus  Jones,  a  farmer.  He 
was  educated  at  the  village  grammar  school  at  Winslow,  Bucks, 
and  went  into  business  life  at  Bradford,  Yorkshire,  when  thir 
teen  years  old.  He  became  a  successful  commercial  traveler,  but 
from  the  first  time  he  entered  a  theatre,  at  the  age  of  eighteen, 
and  saw  Miss  Bateman  in  "Leah"  at  the  Haymarket,  London, 
he  was  so  fascinated  with  the  stage  that  he  devoted  all  his  spare 
time  to  its  study.  When  he  was  twenty-seven  he  deserted  com 
mercial  life  to  become  a  dramatist.  His  first  play  was  a  little 
piece  called  "It's  Only  Round  the  Corner,"  which  was  produced 
at  the  Exeter  Royal  Theatre  in  1878.  This  was  followed  by 
"Hearts  of  Oak,"  "Elopement,"  "A  Clerical  Error,"  "An  Old  Mas 
ter,"  "His  Wife,"  "Cherry  Ripe,"  and  "A  Bed  of  Roses."  His 
first  notable  success  was  "The  Silver  King,"  written  with  Henry 
Herman  and  produced  at  the  Princess's  Theatre,  London,  by  Wil 
son  Barrett  in  1882.  Since  then  he  has  written  "Saints  and  Sin 
ners,"  produced  in  1884;  "The  Middleman,"  1889,  and  "Judah," 
1890,  for  E.  S.  Willard;  "The  Dancing  Girl,"  1891;  "The  Cru 
saders,"  1891;  "The  Tempter,"  and  "The  Bauble  Shop,"  1893; 
"The  Masqueraders,"  and  "The  Case  of  Rebellious  Susan,"  1894; 
"The  Triumph  of  the  Philistines,"  1895;  "Michael  and  His  Lost 
Angel,"  and  "The  Rogue's  Comedy,"  1896;  "The  Physician,"  and 
"The  Liars,"  1897;  "The  Manoeuvres  of  Jane,"  1898;  "The  Lack 
ey's  Carnival,"  and  "The  Princess's  Nose,"  1902;  "Whitewash 
ing,"  and  "Joseph  Entangled,"  1903;  "The  Chevalier,"  1904,  and 
"The  Heroic  Stubbs,"  1906.  Nearly  all  his  plays  have  been  pro 
duced  in  the  United  States.  In  August,  1906,  "The  Hypocrites" 
was  produced,  for  the  first  time  on  any  stage,  at  the  Hudson  Thea 
tre,  New  York.  Mr.  Jones  personally  superintended  the  rehear 
sals,  and  this  was  the  first  time  a  new  play  by  a  leading  English 
playwright  had  its  initial  performance  in  the  United  States.  His 
play  "The  Evangelist"  was  produced  at  the  Knickerbocker  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  September  30,  1907,  and  withdrawn  after  two 
weeks.  Mr.  Jones's  home  is  at  38  Portland  place,  London,  N.  WT. 

JONES,  Walter: 

Comedian,  was  born  in  Springfield,  Ohio,  in  1872.  When  he 
was  ten  years  old  he  ran  away  to  join  Robinson  &  Alexander's 


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circus,  serving  an  apprenticeship  as  a  tumbler,  and  eventually 
rising  to  the  dignity  of  a  clown.  He  then  became  associated  with 
the  box  office  of  the  Grand  Opera  House,  Cincinnati,  and  mado 
his  first  appearance  as  an  actor  in  a  melodrama  called  "Gene- 
vieve"  on  a  tour  which  terminated  disastrously  in  Toronto.  Work 
ing  his  way  to  St.  Thomas,  Mr.  Jones  joined  the  Howard  Hail 
circus,  which  he  left  in  the  early  '80s  to  play  Passepartout  in 
Imre  Kiralfy's  spectacle,  "Around  the  World  in  Eighty  Days." 
Four  seasons  with  W.  A.  Mestayer's  company  followed,  during 
which  Mr.  Jones  played  in  "We,  Us  &  Co.,"  "The  Tourists,"  and 
"The  Grab  Bag."  Following  this  he  played  Owen  McFee  in 
"Aunt  Bridget's  Baby"  with  George  Monroe.  Soon  afterward  ho 
ran  a  dramatic  agency  in  Cincinnati  and  managed  James  Owen 
O'Connor  for  a  short  season.  Then  followed  a  season  with  "The 
United  States  Mail,"  after  which,  for  two  years,  he  acted  the 
part  of  Snapper  in  "The  Pulse  of  New  York."  It  was  in  this 
part  that  he  originated  the  tramp  act  which  afterward  brought 
him  into  prominence.  He  was  playing  at  the  Grand  Opera  House, 
Boston,  when  Edward  E.  Rice  engaged  him  to  play  the  King  in 
"1492."  In  this,  just  four  hundred  years  after  the  title  date,  Mr. 
Jones  made  his  first  great  success,  his  tramp  specialty  making 
him  famous  throughout  the  long  run  of  the  extravaganza  in  New 
York.  Mr.  Jones  then  played  William  Tell  in  "Excelsior,  Jr.," 
and  one  of  the  bailiffs  in  "The  Lady  Slavey."  His  next  engage 
ment  was  in  "In  Gay  New  York."  After  that  he  made  a  popular 
character  of  Buffingsby  Flash  in  "One  Round  of  Pleasure."  Prior 
to  1900  Mr.  Jones  starred  in  a  revival  of  "In  Gay  New  York"  at 
the  Casino,  New  York;  starred  with  Thomas  Q.  Seabrooke  and 
Miss  Edna  Wallace  Hopper  in  "Yankee  Doodle  Dandy";  played 
in  "The  Man  in  the  Moon"  at  the  New  York  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  in  "The  Gay  Debutantes."  After  a  season  in  vaudeville  with 
Miss  Norma  Whalley  he  went  to  San  Francisco  in  the  summer 
of  1900  to  play  in  an  all-star  cast  giving  the  Hoyt  farces.  After 
ward  he  starred  for  two  seasons  in  "The  Chaperones."  After  a 
season  in  George  V.  Hobart's  "The  Sleepy  King"  he  appeared  in 
1905  in  "The  Girl  and  the  Bandit."  The  season  of  1905-6  Mr. 
Jones  starred  in  a  vaudeville  sketch  with  Mabel  Hite,  and  tho 
season  of  1907-8  was  seen  in  "Miss  Pocahontas."  He  is  a  mem 
ber  of  The  Lambs,  the  Larchmont  Yacht  Club,  the  Green  Room 
Club,  the  Chicago  Automobile  Club,  the  Vaudeville  Comedy  Club, 
the  White  Rats,  the  Eagles,  F.  0.  E.  and  the  Flying  Squadron. 

KAHN,  Miss  Florence: 

Actress,  was  born   in  Memphis,   Tenn.     She  was  graduated 
from  a  New  York  dramatic  school  in  1897,  and  made  her  first 


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professional  appearance  on  tour  in  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me." 
After  a  season  with  the  Independent  Theatre  Company  she  sup 
ported  Paul  Gilmore  in  "The  Three  Musketeers."  The  season  of 
1901-2  she  played  Chorus  with  Richard  Mansfield  in  "Henry  V," 
then  was  leading  woman  with  J.  K.  Hackett  in  "Don  Caesar's  Re 
turn."  The  spring  of  1904  she  appeared  in  "Rosmersholm,"  and 
"The  Battle  of  the  Butterflies,"  with  the  Century  Theatre  Com 
pany;  then  she  played  in  Ibsen's  "When  We  Dead  Awake"  at  the 
Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New  York.  After  a  season  with  the  Cas 
tle  Square  Stock  Company,  in  Boston,  she  appeared  in  1907  as 
Mrs.  Blvested  in  "Hedda  Gabler"  with  Mme.  Nazimova  at  the 
Bijou  Theatre,  New  York. 

KEIM,  Miss  Adelaide: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  February  15,  1885,  and 
educated  at  St.  Joseph's  Academy.  Miss  Keim  made  her  first 
appearance,  when  she  was  a  mere  girl,  under  the  direction  of 
Daniel  Frohman  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York.  When  B.  H. 
Sothern  produced  "Hamlet"  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York, 
Miss  Keim  was  engaged  to  understudy  the  role  of  Ophelia,  and 
succeeded  Virginia  Harned  in  that  part.  She  then  attracted  the 
attention  of  F.  F.  Proctor,  who  engaged  her  as  leading  woman 
for  his  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre  Stock  Company,  where  she  played 
fifty  different  roles,  such  as  Peg  Woffington,  the  Baroness  in 
"The  Last  Word,"  Camille,  etc.  She  there  originated  the  role 
of  Mrs.  Temple  in  the  play  afterward  known  as  "Mrs.  Temple's 
Telegram."  Miss  Keim  headed  the  De  Witt  Company  of  Players 
in  Baltimore,  and  while  there  first  essayed  the  male  role  of 
Hamlet,  in  which  she  made  a  great  success.  She  also  appeared 
as  Carmen,  Lady  Gay  Spanker,  Lady  Teazle,  and  as  Rosalind  in 
"As  You  Like  It."  Under  the  management  of  her  father,  Henry 
G.  Keim,  she  played  a  season  at  the  Harlem  Opera  House  in 
New  York,  where  she  repeated  her  success  in  the  male  role  of 
Hamlet.  She  subsequently  appeared  as  Princess  Irene  in  "The 
Prince  of  India"  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York.  The  sea 
son  of  1907-8  she  played  stock  in  Chicago. 

KEITH,  Benjamin  Franklin: 

Owner  of  vaudeville  theatres,  was  born  in  Hillsboro  Bridge, 
N.  H.,  of  Scotch  and  French  parentage.  Until  he  was  eighteen 
years  old  he  was  content  with  the  life  of  a  farm  boy  and  a 
"deestrick"  school  education.  He  saw  a  performance  of  Van 
Amburgh's  circus  at  that  time,  and  it  so  impressed  him  that 
the  farm  was  no  longer  to  his  liking.  He  started  out  as  a  cir 
cus  worker,  and  was  associated  in  those  early  days  with  Bun- 


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nell's  and  Barnum's  museums,  in  New  York,  and  with  the  cir 
cuses  of  Forepaugh  and  Batcheller  &  Doris.  He  finally  ventured 
into  the  show  business  as  a  proprietor,  and  followed  it  with  vary 
ing  success  until  1385.  On  July  6  of  that  year  Mr.  Keith  founded 
and  began  the  continuous  performance  plan  now  known  as  vaude 
ville.  Mr.  Keith  himself  ascribes  the  idea  to  the  fact  that  he 
saw  in  a  dream  people  singing  and  dancing  continually  on  a 
stage.  He  was  then  part  owner  of  the  Gaiety  Musee,  in  Boston, 
and  he  saw  financial  disaster  coming.  The  dream  seemed  to  him 
an  inspiration  when  he  recalled  it  later  at  a  time  when  he  was 
seeking  some  way  out  of  his  difficulties.  He  went  to  work, 
evolved  his  plan  and  put  it  into  operation.  The  first  day  the 
receipts  increased  just  fifty  dollars.  The  success  of  the  plan  ex 
ceeded  his  most  sanguine  expectations,  and  in  1886  Mr.  Keith 
leased  the  Bijou  Theatre,  adjoining  the  Gaiety.  He  branched  out 
and,  year  by  year,  built  or  leased  theatres  for  vaudeville  per 
formances  until,  in  1905,  he  had,  in  addition  to  two  Boston  thea 
tres,  houses  in  Providence,  R.  I.;  Pawtucket,  R.  I.;  Philadelphia, 
Cleveland,  Columbus,  Ohio;  Portland,  Me.;  Manchester,  N.  H.; 
Lowell,  Mass.;  New  York,  and  London,  England.  In  June,  1906, 
Mr.  Keith  and  F.  F.  Proctor,  his  chief  competitor  in  the  vaude 
ville  field,  who  also  had  theatres  in  various  cities,  including  New 
York,  joined  forces  and  formed  the  Keith  &  Proctor  Amusement 
Company.  A  few  weeks  later  the  United  Booking  Office  of  Amer 
ica,  headed  by  Messrs.  Keith  and  Proctor,  was  formed,  with  the 
control  of  more  than  one  hundred  vaudeville  houses  in  the  East 
ern  and  Western  cities.  Mr.  Keith's  home  is  in  Brookline,  Mass. 
He  is  the  owner  of  the  steam  yacht  Courier. 

KELCEY,  Herbert  (Herbert  Lamb) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  England,  October  10,  1855.  As  the  eldest 
son  of  a  county  family  he  was  intended  for  the  army,  but  he 
joined  a  provincial  theatrical  company  and  made  his  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  at  the  Theatre  Royal,  Brighton,  in  1880,  play 
ing  a  small  part  in  '"Flirtation."  After  roughing  it  in  the  prov 
inces  for  one  year,  he  was  engaged  by  Sir  Augustus  Harris  and 
created  the  part  of  Captain  Lord  Loreton  in  "Youth,"  produced 
at  the  Drury  Lane  Theatre  August  6,  1881.  The  following  year 
he  came  to  this  country,  making  his  American  debut  at  Wai- 
lack's  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Philip  Radley  in  "Taken  from  Life" 
September  9,  1882.  Mr.  Kelcey  also  created  the  parts  of  Count 
Orloff  in  "Diplomacy,"  and  the  the  Spider  in  "The  Silver  King/' 
in  this  country.  The  season  of  1884-5  Mr.  Kelcey  was  a  member 
of  the  Madison  Square  Company,  New  York,  playing  Cheviot  Hill 
in  "Engaged,"  Edward  Warburton  in  "Old  Love  Letters,"  and 


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Philip  Van  Pelt  in  "Our  Society."  The  following  year,  as  a 
member  of  the  Wallack  Stock  Company,  he  played  Colonel  Tressi- 
dor  in  "Harvest,"  Lord  Jura  in  "Moths,"  Mark  Helstone  in  "Har 
bor  Lights,"  Tom  Coke  in  "Old  Heads  and  Young  Hearts,"  Major 
Barton  in  "The  Dominie's  Daughter,"  and  Joseph  Surface  in  "The 
School  for  Scandal."  In  October,  1887,  Mr.  Kelcey  became  lead 
ing  man  in  Daniel  Frohman's  Lyceum  Stock  Company,  making 
his  first  appearance  as  John  Rutherford  in  "The  Wife."  He  re 
mained  in  that  organization  nine  years,  creating  and  playing 
many  leading  parts.  In  the  fall  of  1896  he  supported  Mrs.  Leslie 
Carter  in  "The  Heart  of  Maryland,"  after  which  he  became  a 
star,  playing  for  several  seasons  the  role  of  Edward  Fletcher  in 
"The  Moth  and  the  Flame"  at  the  head  of  his  own  company  with 
Effie  Shannon  as  co-star.  He  then  appeared  in  William  Gillette's 
"Sherlock  Holmes."  He  then  played  in  "The  Lightning  Con 
ductor,"  and  on  November  19,  1906,  was  seen  as  Richard  Mil- 
bank  in  Charles  Klein's  "The  Daughters  of  Men"  at  the  Astor 
Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1907-8  Mr.  Kelcey  starred  in 
"The  Walls  of  Jericho."  His  home  is  at  249  West  One  Hundred 
and  Seventh  street,  New  York. 

KELLARD,  Ralph     (Thomas  J.  J.  Kelly)  : 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  City  June  16,  1884.  He  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  there,  and  before  going  on  the 
stage  worked  as  a  law  clerk.  He  made  his  first  appearance  as 
one  of  the  crowd  in  "The  Palace  of  the  King"  under  the  man 
agement  of  Liebler  &  Co.  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  September  14,  1902. 
After  a  severe  illness,  during  the  season  of  1904-5,  Mr.  Kellard 
played  in  the  stock  company  of  Mrs.  Spooner  at  her  Bijou 
Theatre,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  The  following  season  he  played  Don 
Camilio  Murelli  in  "The  Eternal  City."  March  19,  1906,  he  ap 
peared  as  Beverly  Cruger  in  "The  Music  Master"  with  David 
Warfield,  and  continued  to  play  that  part  throughout  the  sea 
son  of  1906-7.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  seen  as  Tom  Dabney 
in  "The  Warrens  of  Virginia,"  produced  at  the  Belasco  Theatre, 
New  York,  December  3,  1907.  Mr.  Kellard's  favorite  recreations 
are  walking  and  outdoor  sports.  His  home  is  at  205  East  Ninety- 
third  street,  New  York  City. 

KELLERD,  E.  John : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Kensington,  London,  May  14,  1863.  He 
was  an  orphan  at  the  age  of  four,  and  at  eight  had  learned  to 
play  the  violin  and  piano.  His  stage  career  began  January  10.. 
1879,  when  he  played  Polonius  in  "Hamlet"  at  the  King's  Cross 
Theatre,  London.  He  then  accepted  a  place  as  leading  man  in 


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the  Lyceum  Theatre  in  Stafford.  From  there  he  drifted  into  sev 
eral  provincial  companies,  and  then  obtained  a  London  engage 
ment  at  Sadlers'  Wells  Theatre.  Another  round  of  the  English 
provinces  followed,  and  then  he  was  engaged,  in  May,  1883,  for 
the  company  of  the  Boston  Museum,  and  came  to  the  United 
States  to  fill  that  engagement.  He  afterward  played  with  Daniel 
Bandmann  and  as  leading  man  for  William  J.  Florence  and 
Frederick  Warde.  His  first  New  York  appearance  was  in  "Held 
by  the  Enemy,"  August  16,  1886,  in  the  role  of  Gordon  Hayne. 
After  the  death  of  Florence  he  was  engaged  by  Joseph  Jefferson 
to  play  the  part  of  Sir  Lucius  O'Trigger  in  "The  Rivals,"  the 
part  which  had  been  played  so  long  by  Florence.  He  appeared 
later  with  Henrietta  Crosman  in  "Sweet  Kitty  Bellairs"  at  the 
Belasco  Theatre,  New  York;  with  Mrs.  Fiske  in  "Leah  Kleschna," 
and  in  "Taps,"  adapted  from  the  German  "Lights  Out." 


KELLY,  Harry: 

Comedian,  was  born  in  New  York,  and  made  his  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  at  the  age  of  seven  years  at  the  London  Thea 
tre  there  with  the  Alex  Zanfretta  troupe  of  pantomimists.  His 
next  engagement  was  with  the  Niles,  Evans,  Bryant  and  Hoey 
company,  he  being  one  of  an  act  of  boys  known  as  the  Big 
Little  Four.  The  first  part  of  consequence  young  Kelly  essayed 
was  that  of  the  Bad  Boy  in  "Peck's  Bad  Boy."  Later  he  joined 
his  stepfather,  John  T.  Kelly,  and  Dan  Mason  who  were  playing 
in  "The  Tigers."  Subsequently  he  played  the  role  of  the  Police 
man  in  "Evarigeline,"  and  was  with  Richard  Golden  in  "A  Bar 
ber  Scrape."  With  John  T.  Kelly  and  Gus  Williams  he  appeared 
in  the  farce  "U  and  I,"  and  later  with  John  T.  Kelly  in  "McPhee 
of  Dublin."  After  gaining  popular  favor  in  the  musical  re 
view  "Cook's  Tours"  at  Koster  &  Bial's,  New  York,  he  played 
with  Lillian  Russell  in  "The  American  Beauty."  For  the  next 
three  years  he  was  one  of  the  principal  members  of  Klaw  & 
Erlanger's  "Jack  and  the  Beanstalk"  company,  leaving  it  for 
"The  Whirl  of  the  Town"  at  the  Casino,  New  York,  in  which, 
as  the  Bartender,  he  again  pleased  the  public,  especially  in  his 
song,  "Roxianna  Dooley."  In  the  "Mam'zelle  'Awkins"  company 
at  the  Walnut  Street  Theatre,  Philadelphia,  and  the  Victoria 
Theatre,  New  York,  he  made  one  of  the  chief  successes  of  his 
career.  Subsequently  he  was  with  James  T.  Powers  in  "The 
Messenger  Boy,"  with  the  late  Jerome  Sykes  in  "The  Billionaire," 
in  "A  Little  of  Everything"  at  the  Aerial  Gardens,  New  Amster 
dam  Theatre,  New  York,  and  in  "Mother  Goose."  In  1905  he 
became  a  member  of  the  Lew  Fields  Theatre  company  in  New 


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York,  playing  in  "It  Happened  in  Nordland"  and  in  the  burlesque 
of  "The  Music  Master."  He  next  appeared  in  "His  Majesty," 
.and  in  the  spring  of  1906  created  the  role  of  Deacon  Flood  in 
''His  Honor  the  Mayor,"  which  he  continued  to  play  the  seasons 
of  1906-7-8. 


KELLY,  John  T. : 

Irish  comedian,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  August  26,  1855. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  until  he  was  fourteen  years  old, 
in  the  meantime  doing  clog  dancing  for  the  amusement  of  his 
companions.  His  first  public  appearance  was  under  the  manage 
ment  of  M.  B.  Leavitt,  with  whom  he  made  a  six  months'  tour 
through  the  Eastern  States  and  Canada.  At  the  close  of  this 
engagement  he  adopted  white  face  and  low  comedy  parts  and 
joined  Jennie  Kimball's  comedy  and  burlesque  company.  While 
with  this  organization  his  parents  induced  him  to  abandon  the 
stage,  and  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  clothing  cutter.  He  devoted 
one  year  to  this  trade,  and  then  threw  away  the  tape  measure 
in  disgust  and  joined  "The  Mocking  Bird  Serenaders"  in  Bangor, 
Me.  In  1870  he  made  his  first  appearance  in  vaudeville  in  Buf 
falo.  The  following  year  he  became  a  favorite  at  Tony  Pastor's 
Theatre,  New  York,  in  Irish  character  changes.  He  formed  a 
team  with  Thomas  J.  Ryan,  known  as  Kelly  and  Ryan,  which  was 
dissolved  in  1885,  and  Dan  Mason,  the  German  comedian,  then 
became  his  stage  partner.  Afterward  he  joined  with  Gus  Will 
iams,  the  German  comedian,  and  starred  with  him  in  "U  and  I." 
He  afterward  appeared  in  "Roger  McFee."  He  was  also  with 
the  Weber  &  Fields  forces.  The  season  of  1906  he  went  into 
vaudeville  and  continued  playing  sketches  the  season  of  1907-8. 

KEMPER,  Collin: 

Actor  and  manager,  best  known  as  junior  member  of  the  pro 
ducing  firm  of  vVagenhals  &  Kemper,  was  born  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  February  17,  1870.  He  was  originally  an  actor,  having 
been  a  member  of  the  Augustin  Daly  company  when  a  very  young 
man.  He  became  a  partner  of  Lincoln  A.  Wagenhals  in  1893, 
their  first  venture  being  the  management  of  a  stock  company  at 
Stone's  Opera  House,  Binghamton,  N.  Y.  Since  then  the  firm 
has  managed  such  stars  as  Mme.  Modjeska,  Blanche  Walsh,  Louis 
James,  Kathryn  Kidder,  Henry  Miller,  Annie  Russell  and  Leo 
Ditrichstein.  They  are  also  lessees  and  managers  of  the  Astor 
Theatre,  New  York.  Mr.  Kemper's  business  address  is  Astor 
Theatre,  New  York. 


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KENDAL,  Ezra : 

Actor,  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Allegany  County,  New  York, 
in  1861.  He  began  life  as  a  printer  in  Clean,  N.  Y.;  then,  going 
to  New  York,  he  became  a  reporter  on  the  New  York  Herald  for 
a  time,  and  then  on  the  Clean  Times.  He  made  his  first  ap 
pearance  as  a  professional  actor  at  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  in  the  farce 
"That  Rascal  Pat"  on  St.  Patrick's  Day,  1880.  After  that  he 
supported  Lillian  Cleves-Clark  in  "Only  a  Farmer's  Daughter," 
getting  a  salary  of  four  dollars  a  week  and  expenses.  Mr.  Ken- 
dal  made  his  first  hit  in  "Wanted,  a  Partner"  at  Rankin's  Third 
Avenue  Theatre,  New  York,  after  which  he  wrote  and  produced 
"We,  Us  &  Co.,"  and  became  a  star.  He  starred  eleven  years 
in  his  farce  "A  Pair  of  Kids,"  and  then  in  "The  Vinegar  Buyer." 
The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  seen  in  "The  Land  of  Dollars." 

KENDAL,  Mrs.  Madge  (Mrs.  W.  H.  Grimston)  : 

Actress,  was  born  at  Cleethorpes,  Lincolnshire,  March  15, 
1849,  being  the  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Robertson,  both 
of  whom  were  actors,  and  the  sister  of  T.  W.  Robertson,  the 
author  of  "Caste,"  "School,"  and  "Ours."  Her  first  public  ap 
pearance  was  at  the  old  Marylebone  Theatre  in  "The  Struggle 
for  Gold."  For  a  long  time  she  played  children's  parts  in  pan 
tomime  and  made  her  debut  as  an  adult  as  Madge  Robertson  at 
the  Haymarket,  playing  Ophelia  to  the  Hamlet  of  the  late  Wal 
ter  Montgomery  in  1865.  An  eighteen  months'  tour  in  the  Eng 
lish  provinces  followed,  and  in  1867  she  returned  to  London  and 
appeared  in  "The  Great  City"  at  Drury  Lane.  The  following 
year  she  came  into  prominent  notice  by  her  performance  of 
Blanche  Dumont  in  "A  Hero  of  Romance"  at  the  Haymarket. 
She  remained  there  for  seven  years,  creating  the  principal  parts 
in  a  series  of  successful  pieces  by  W.  S.  Gilbert,  including  "The 
Palace  of  Truth,"  "Pygmalion  and  Galatea,"  "Broken  Hearts," 
and  "The  Wicked  World."  Two  of  her  greatest  triumphs  were 
Lady  Orman  in  "Peril,"  and  Dora  in  "Diplomacy"  at  the  Prince 
of  Wales's  Theatre  in  1876.  The  Kendals  entered  into  a  partner 
ship  with  John  Hare  in  the  management  of  the  St.  James's  Thea 
tre,  which  continued  from  1877  to  1888,  during  which  time  they 
produced  many  successful  plays.  In  1889  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kendal 
made  their  first  tour  of  the  United  States  and  Canada  under  the 
direction  of  Daniel  Frohman.  It  was  phenomenally  successful, 
and  was  repeated  annually  for  five  years.  Since  then  they  have 
made  several  provincial  tours  and  played  several  seasons  in  Lon 
don.  The  Kendals  were  married  August  7,  1869.  Their  London 
address  is  12  Portland  place. 


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KENDAL,  William  Hunter  (Grimston) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  London  December  16,  1843.  At  the  age 
of  eighteen  he  entered  the  dramatic  profession  as  a  member  of 
the  old  Soho  Stock  Company  of  London,  which  at  that  period  in 
cluded  Ellen  Terry  and  David  James.  He  went  to  Glasgow,  Scot 
land,  in  1862,  where  he  remained  as  a  member  of  the  Theatre 
Royal  company  until  1866,  supporting  such  stars  as  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  Kean,  Helen  Faucit  and  G.  V.  Brooke.  At  the  end  of 
1866  he  made  his  first  appearance  in  London  at  the  Haymarket 
in  "A  Dangerous  Friend."  He  married  Miss  Madge  Robertson 
August  7,  1869,  and  the  remainder  of  his  theatrical  career  is  prac 
tically  identical  with  that  of  his  wife.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Junior,  Carlton,  Garrick,  Beefsteak,  Arts  and  Cosmopolitan  clubs, 
London. 

KENNEDY,  Charles  E.  : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  November  17,  1867,  and 
made  his  first  appearance  on  the  occasion  of  the  opening  of  the 
Grand  Opera  House  in  that  city  under  the  management  of  F.  F. 
Proctor  as  a" super"  in  "Arabian  Nights"  January  9,  1888.  After 
that  he  followed  the  occupation  of  a  detective  for  some  time, 
then  played  his  first  speaking  part  at  the  Castle  Square  Theatre 
in" Captain  Paul"  in  1894.  While  playing  in  the  Pinehurst  Stock 
Company  in  North  Carolina,  with  which  organization  he  re 
mained  from  1,899  to  1903,  he  made  his  first  marked  success  as 
Dave  Hardy  in  "Esmeralda."  The  season  of  1903-4  he  was  with 
the  Peruchi-Beldini  Stock  Company  in  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  and  the 
following  season  with  the  Bennett-Moulton  Company,  touring 
New  England.  The  season  of  3905-6  he  was  manager  of  the  Har- 
court  Comedy  Company,  and  the  following  season  was  with  the 
Gagnon  Pollock  Stock  at  Key  West,  Fla.  He  was  leading  man 
with  the  Whiteside-Strauss  Company  in  the  spring  of  1907,  and 
the  season  of  1907-8  played  the  lead  in  "A  Desperate  Chance." 
Mr.  Kennedy  is  a  Mason  and  an  Elk.  He  married  Miss  Albertina 
O.  Kalberg  April  23,  1893,  and  his  home  is  at  58  Central  street, 
Auburndale,  Mass. 

KERKER,  Gustave: 

Composer  and  musical  director,  who  filled  that  post  for  many 
years  at  the  New  York  Casino,  was  born  in  Westphalia,  Germany, 
February  28,  1857,  of  a  family  of  musicians.  He  came  to  this 
country  in  1867  and  settled  in  Louisville,  Ky.  When  little  more 
than  sixteen  years  old  he  first  conducted  an  opera,  Weber's  "Der 


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Freischutz,"  and  later  he  became  leader  of  the  orchestra  of  a 
Louisville  theatre.  In  1879  he  composed  his  first  opera,  "Cadets," 
the  libretto  being  written  by  Morris  Warner.  Then  he  went  to 
New  York,  and  joined  E.  E.  Rice  in  the  production  of  "Orpheus 
and  Eurydice"  at  the  Bijou  Opera  House.  He  retained  the  posi 
tion  of  director  at  the  Bijou  until  1888,  when  ''The  Pearl  of 
Peking"  was  produced,  nearly  all  of  the  music  of  which  he  com 
posed.  Then  he  transferred  his  services  to  the  Casino,  his  first 
production  there  being  "The  Brigands,"  of  which  most  of  the 
music  was  original  with  him.  He  is  the  author  of  the  music  of 
"Castles  in  the  Air,"  and  "The  Belle  of  New  York,"  and  hundreds 
of  similar  pieces. 

KIDDER,  Miss  Kathryn  (Mrs.  Louis  Kaufman  Anspacher) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  but  her  home  is  in 
Evanston,  111.,  where  her  grandfather,  Daniel  Parish  Kidder,  was 
president  of  the  university.  Her  father  is  Colonel  H.  M.  Kidder, 
a  member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade.  Her  debut  was  made 
in  Chicago  in  1885  as  Lucy  in  Frank  Mayo's  production  of  "The 
Streets  of  New  York,"  and  the  same  year  she  played  Wanda  in 
Frank  Mayo's  production  of  "Nordeck"  at  the  old  Union  Square 
Theatre,  New  York;  after  that  she  played  Rachel  McCreery  in 
William  Gillette's  "Held  by  the  Enemy"  at  the  Madison  Square 
Theatre,  New  York.  She  then  toured  in  legitimate  repertoire 
with  Joseph  Haworth,  appearing  in  the  leading  parts  in  "The 
Leavenworth  Case,"  "Ruy  Bias,"  "Cupid's  Messenger,"  "Saint 
Marc,"  "The  Soldier  of  Fortune,"  and  "The  Bells."  Her  next 
appearance  was  as  Dearest  in  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy"  at  the 
Broadway  Theatre,  New  York.  Then  she  purchased  the  Ameri 
can  rights  of  Sardou's  "Madame  Sans  Gene,"  and  presented  it  at 
the  same  theatre,  where  it  achieved  a  decided  success  and  was 
continued  for  a  long  run.  She  toured  with  this  play  for  three 
years.  After  this  she  starred  for  four  years  under  the  manage 
ment  of  Wagenhals  &  Kemper,  appearing  as  Ophelia,  Desdemona, 
Portia,  Lady  Macbeth  and  others.  The  next  season  she  produced 
"Molly  Pitcher,"  "The  Country  Girl,"  and  Dumas's  "Francillon." 
Later  she  was  seen  as  Hermione  and  Perdita  in  "Winter's  Tale," 
and  Salammbo  in  a  dramatization  of  Flaubert's  novel  of  that 
name.  In  1906  she  played  the  role  of  Elizabeth  Holt  in  her  hus 
band's  drama,  "The  Embarrassment  of  Riches."  She  has  since 
retired  from  the  stage.  Miss  Kidder  married  Louis  K.  Ans 
pacher,  dramatist  and  former  professor  at  the  Columbia  Univer 
sity,  New  York,  in  October,  1905.  Their  home  is  at  Tuckahoe, 
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KIMBALL,  Miss  Grace  (Mrs.  M.  D.  MsGuire)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  February  18,  1870,  and 
made  her  debut  on  the  stage  as  the  Maid  in  "Engaged"  at  the 
age  of  eighteen,  appearing  later  in  "A  Possible  Case"  under  the 
management  of  J.  M.  Hill.  After  a  wide  experience  she  became 
a  member  of  the  company  under  the  direction  of  Daniel  Froh- 
man  at  the  old  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1902.  The  season 
of  1902-3  she  joined  the  Fawcett  Stock  Company,  Baltimore,  Md,, 
as  leading  woman,  and  the  season  of  1903-4  was  seen  at  the  Gar 
den  Theatre,  New  York,  and  on  tour  in  "The  Secret  of  Polichi- 
nelle"  with  William  H.  Thompson.  The  season  of  1904-5  she 
played  in  "Mrs.  Temple's  Telegram"  at  the  Madison  Square  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  and  that  of  1905-6  appeared  with  Cyril  Scott  in 
"The  Prince  Chap,"  and  with  Charles  Richman  in  "Gallops."  The 
season  of  1906-7  she  was  seen  in  "The  Little  Cherub"  with  Hattie 
Williams.  On  May  8,  1897,  Miss  Kimball  married  M.  D.  McGuire, 
a  prominent  New  Yorker.  She  has  retired  temporarily  from  the 
stage. 

KLAW,  Marc: 

Manager,  was  born  in  Paducah,  Ky.,  May  29,  1858,  and  edu 
cated  at  the  public  and  high  schools  of  Louisville.  He  took  up 
law  as  a  profession,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar.  In  1881  he 
began  theatrical  management,  and  later  became  the  senior  mem 
ber  of  the  firm  of  Klaw  &  Erlanger.  He  is  also  associated  with 
the  firms  of  Nixon  &  Zimmerman  and  Hayman,  Klaw  &  Erlanger. 
which  control  practically  all  of  the  principal  theatres  in  the 
United  States.  He  is  the  founder  of  the  Syndicate  Booking 
Agency.  Mr.  Klaw  is  a  member  of  the  Democratic  Club,  New 
York.  His  address  is  New  Amsterdam  Theatre  Building,  New 
York. 

KLEIN,  Charles: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  London,  England,  January  7,  1867, 
and  was  educated  at  the  North  London  College.  He  was  connected 
with  the  stage  for  many  years  before  writing  his  first  play, 
which  was  called  "A  Mile  a  Minute."  His  next  play,  "By  Proxy," 
attracted  considerable  attention,  and  he  has  since  scored  many 
successes.  His  best  known  plays  are  "A  Paltry  Million,"  "The 
District  Attorney,"  "Heartsease,"  "The  Charlatan,"  "El  Capitan," 
a  comic  opera;  "The  Honorable  John  Grigsby,"  "Dr.  Belgraff," 
"A  Royal  Rogue,"  "The  Cipher  Code,"  "The  Auctioneer,"  and 
"The  Music  Master,"  both  written  for  David  Warfield;  "Mr.  Pick 
wick,"  a  comic  opera  written  for  De  Wolf  Hopper;  "Red  Feather," 
also  an  opera;  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse,"  which  enjoyed  a 


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phenomenal  run  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York,  and  "The 
Daughters  of  Men,"  produced  in  the  fall  of  1906.  "The  Step 
sister,"  a  drama  in  three  acts,  by  Mr.  Klein,  was  produced  at 
the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  October  14,  1907,  and  withdrawn 
after  two  weeks.  Mr.  Klein  married  Lillian  Gottlieb.  His  home 
is  at  Shirley  Manor,  Rowayton,  Conn. 

KNOTT,  Miss  Roselle  (Mrs.  Thomas  Knott)  : 

Actress,  was  born  Agnes  Roselle  in  Hamilton,  Ontario,  in 
1870.  The  Roselles  were  among  the  early  pioneers  of  Canada, 
her  grandfather  having  fought  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  carried 
the  tidings  of  peace  at  Stony  Creek.  When  in  her  early  'teens 
Agnes  Roselle  saw  "As  You  Like  It"  with  Modjeska  as  Rosalind. 
From  that  moment  she  determined  that  she  would  one  day  speak 
the  lines  of  that  part.  She  had  played  leading  roles  in  many 
amateur  performances,  when  one  day  a  traveling  company  was 
threatened  with  disaster  in  her  native  town  through  the  illness 
of  one  of  its  members.  Miss  Roselle  stepped  into  the  breach, 
and  her  success  was  instantaneous.  Soon  afterward  she  joined 
a  company  at  Halifax.  When  she  was  nineteen  years  old  Miss 
Roselle  was  married  to  Thomas  Knott,  a  Canadian,  assuming  the 
stage  name  of  Roselle  Knott.  Two  children  were  born  of  this 
marriage — Thomas  Knott,  Jr.,  and  Viola  Knott.  Miss  Knott's 
first  role  of  importance  was  in  Steele  Mackaye's  drama  "Paul 
Kauvar."  Augustus  Pitou  then  engaged  her  for  three  years,  pre 
senting  her  first  in  the  role  of  Nourmale  in  "The  Cherry  Pick 
ers."  An  engagement  with  Richard  Mansfield  followed,  in  whose 
company  she  played  all  the  leading  roles.  She  played  in  Robert 
Mantell's  company  for  a  season,  and  subsequently  won  success 
as  Lygia  in  the  original  production  of  "Quo  Vadis."  The  next 
season  she  played  the  Empress  Josephine  in  "More  Than  Queen, " 
and  then  Katinka  in  Clyde  Fitch's  "A  Modern  Magdalen."  This 
was  followed  by  two  seasons  in  "When  Knighthood  Was  in 
Flower,"  after  which  she  toured  for  a  season  in  "Cousin  Kate." 
The  season  of  1905-6  she  again  starred  as  Mary  Tudor  in  "When 
Knighthood  Was  in  Flower,"  playing  fifty  weeks.  The  fall  of 
1906  Miss  Knott  starred  in  the  title  role  in  "The  Duchess  of 
Devonshire,"  a  play  written  for  her  by  Mrs.  Charles  A.  Doremus, 
and  on  January  1,  1907,  opened  in  "Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire,"  con 
tinuing  to  star  in  the  same  play  the  season  of  1907-8. 

KNOWLTOtf,  Miss  Maude: 

Actress,  was  born  in  California.  She  made  her  first  stage 
appearance  in  1898  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Miss 
Brewster  in  "Trelawney  of  the  Wells,"  and  the  following  sea- 


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son  played  Letty  in  "Brown's  in  Town"  on  tour.  She  supported 
J.  H.  Stoddart  in  "The  Bonnie  Briar  Bush,"  and  appeared  with 
Edward  Harrigan  in  "Under  Cover."  Her  next  work  was  at  the 
Princess  Theatre,  New  York,  with  H.  Reeves  Smith  in  "An  Afri 
can  Millionaire."  The  spring  of  1906  she  played  Mrs.  Barring- 
ton  in  "What  the  Butler  Saw"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  the  following  season  was  with  Rose  Stahl  in  "The  Chorus 
Lady,"  playing  Sylvia  Simpson,  in  which  she  continued  the  sea 
son  of  1907-8. 

LACKAYE,  Wilton: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Loudoun  County,  Virginia,  in  1862.  He 
was  educated  at  the  College  of  Ottawa  and  at  Georgetown  Uni 
versity,  Washington,  D.  C.  While  studying  law  there  he  became 
president  of  the  Lawrence  Barrett  Dramatic  Association,  with 
which  he  appeared  in  many  amateur  performances.  He  obtained 
an  introduction  to  Lawrence  Barrett,  and  in  1883  made  his  first 
appearance  on  the  professional  stage  in  Mr.  Barrett's  company 
at  the  Star  Theatre,  New  York,  his  role  being  that  of  one  of 
Paolo's  friends  in  a  production  of  "Francesca  da  Rimini."  His 
most  important  part  while  with  Mr.  Barrett  was  that  of  Salarino 
in  "The  Merchant  of  Venice."  After  playing  in  stock  in  Dayton, 
Ohio,  with  the  Carrie  Swain  company,  and  in  "May  Blossom,"  he 
joined  Fanny  Davenport's  company  in  1886,  supporting  her  as 
Claudio  in  "Much  Ado  About  Nothing,"  and  playing  in  "Fedora" 
and  "As  You  Like  It."  In  1887  Mr.  Lackaye  came  into  promi 
nence  by  his  portrayal  of  Robert  Le  Diable  in  the  production  of 
"Allan  Dare"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New  York,  and  at 
tracted  still  more  commendation  the  same  year  by  his  playing 
of  Leo  in  William  Gillette's  version  of  "She"  at  Niblo's  Garden. 
His  Gouroc  in  "Paul  Kauvar"  followed,  and  his  substantial  suc 
cess  in  this  was  repeated  as  Saviani  with  Rose  Coghlan  in  "Jo- 
celyn"  at  the  Star  Theatre,  New  York.  In  1889  he  played  Don 
Stephano  with  Minnie  Maddern  in  "Featherbrain"  at  the  Madi 
son  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  and  Haverhill  in  "Shenandoah," 
and  Gilchrist  in  "Booties'  Baby"  followed.  Augustin  Daly  then 
engaged  him,  and  at  Niblo's  Garden  he  appeared  as  De  Noirville 
in  "Roger  La  Honte"  in  1899  with  William  Terriss  and  Jessie 
Millward,  and  at  Daly's  Theatre  as  O'Donnel  Don  in  "The  Great 
Unknown,"  also  in  1899.  After  leaving  Mr.  Daly  he  appeared  as 
Sir  Barton  in  "My  Jack,"  the  Russian  in  "Colonel  Tom,"  Latour 
in  "The  Dead  Heart,"  Jack  Adams  in  "Money  Mad,"  Barillas  in 
"The  Pembertons,"  Jim  Currie  in  "The  Canuck,"  the  title  role  in 
"Dr.  Bill"  and  W.  A.  Brady's  production  of  "Nero"  (1890-1),  and 
Steve  Carson  in  "The  Power  of  the  Press."  He  then  went  to 


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London,  and  for  a  short  time  played  with  the  St.  James's  Theatre 
company.  Returning  to  this  country,  he  joined  Charles  Froh- 
man's  stock  company,  appearing  in  it  in  1892  as  King  Louis 
in  "Pompadour,"  Perrin  in  "Mr.  Wilkinson's  Widows,"  and  Jef 
ferson  Stockton  in  "Aristocracy."  He  was  next  engaged  by  A.  M. 
Palmer  for  his  stock  company,  and  enacted  leading  roles  in  "Lady 
Windermere's  Fan,"  "The  Dancing  Girl,"  "Saints  and  Sinners," 
"Alabama,"  "Jim  the  Penman,"  "Woman's  Revenge,"  "The  Ameri 
can  Heiress,"  "The  Price  of  Silence,"  "The  Transgressor,"  "New 
Blood,"  "The  New  Woman,"  and  "The  District  Attorney."  In 
1895  he  made  one  of  the  greatest  successes  of  his  career  in  the 
creation  of  Svengali  in  "Trilby."  In  1896  he  played  the  title  role 
in  Charles  Klein's  "Dr.  Belgraff,"  and  in  1897  that  in  Theodore 
Burt  Sayre's  "Charles  O'Malley."  In  1899  he  played  Reb  Shemuel 
in  Israel  Zangwill's  "Children  of  the  Ghetto,"  both  in  New  York 
and  London.  He  was  the  Petronius  of  "Quo  Vadis"  in  1900; 
played  the  leading  man's  role  in  Augustus  Thomas's  "Colorado" 
in  1901-2,  and  was  in  the  cast  of  Amelia  Bingham's  production  of 
"A  Modern  Magdalen"  in  1903.  He  made  another  marked  suc 
cess  as  Curtis  Jadwin  in  W.  A.  Brady's  production  of  "The  Pit," 
a  dramatization  of  Frank  Norris's  novel,  which  ran  from  1903 
to  1906.  The  seasons  of  1906-7  he  starred  as  Jean  Valjean  in 
"The  Law  and  the  Man,"  a  dramatization  of  Victor  Hugo's  "Les 
Miserables, "  and  the  season  of  1907-8  in  "The  Bondman."  Mr. 
Lackaye  married  Miss  Alice  Evans  September  25,  1896. 

LAMSON,  Ernest: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Illinois.  He  began  his  professional  career 
in  1892  with  Walker  Whiteside,  playing  comedy  and  character 
parts.  The  next  two  seasons  he  appeared  in  "Edgewood  Folks." 
He  next  supported  James  A.  Herne  and  Stuart  Robson,  and  played 
several  seasons  in  stock  companies,  making  successes  as  Captain 
Merryweather  in  "The  Lottery  of  Love,"  Spettigue  in  "Charley'.? 
Aunt,"  Dabney  in  "All  the  Comforts  of  Home,"  Kershaw  in 
"Jane,"  and  Knowlton  in  "The  Lost  Paradise."  The  season  of 
1899-1900  he  created  the  eccentric  juvenile  part  of  Lena  Yarring- 
ton  in  David  K.  Higgins's  comedy  "Darius  Green,"  later  called 
"Up  York  State."  He  was  the  Lonny  Bowles  in,  "Caleb  .West," 
and  was  with  David  Higgins  in  "At  Piney  Ridge."  He  then  origi 
nated  the  part  of  Lem  Dunbar  in  Arthur  Sidman's  "York  State 
Folks."  He  then  became  a  star  and  toured  the  country  success 
fully  in  a  country  comedy-drama,  "Young  Tobe  Hoxie,"  of  which 
he  is  the  author.  The  season  of  1905-6  he  was  the  Dave  Lacy  of 
Paul  Armstrong's  "The  Heir  to  the  Hoorah."  He  is  the  author 


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of  several  plays,  including  "Found  in  the  Rockies"  and  "A  Ro 
mance  of  Bright  Angel  Trail." 

LANE,  Miss  Clara  (Mrs.  J.  K.  Murray) : 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  Ellsworth,  Me.,  but  was 
taken  to  Boston,  Mass.,  while  a  baby  and  regards  that  city  as 
her  home.  After  being  graduated  from  the  Dearborn  School  she 
studied  music  under  John  Hodgdon  and  Signer  Oliveri.  After 
church  and  amateur  work  Miss  Lane  made  her  first  professional 
appearance  in  1884  in  "Virginia"  with  the  Bijou  Opera  Stock 
Company.  The  next  two  seasons  she  was  with  Hoyt's  "Rag  Baby'' 
and  "Tin  Soldier"  companies,  after  which  she  joined  the  Conried 
Opera  Company,  opening  at  the  National  Theatre,  Washington, 
in  "Nanon,"  and  afterward  playing  Fiamette  in  "The  Mascot," 
and  Nina  in  "A  Night  in  Venice."  Her  next  engagement  was 
with  E.  E.  Rice  in  "The  Corsair"  in  1887.  She  then  sang  the 
prima  donna  part  in  "The  Pearl  of  Pekin."  Next  followed  four 
years  with  the  Carleton  Opera  Company  as  prima  donna.  Dur 
ing  this  engagement  Miss  Lane  became  the  wife  of  John  K.  Mur 
ray,  whom  she  supported  in  "Glen  da  Lough,"  an  Irish  drama, 
produced  in  Boston  in  1892-3.  The  Murray-Lane  Opera  Company 
was  then  formed,  and  successfully  toured  the  West.  During  the 
illness  of  Lillian  Russell,  in  1895,  Miss  Lane  took  her  part  in 
"The  Tzigane."  She  then  joined  the  Castle  Square  Opera  Com 
pany,  an  organization  with  which  she  has  several  times  been  as 
sociated.  In  addition  to  singing  in  opera  companies,  of  recent 
years  Miss  Lane  has  appeared  with  her  husband  in  operatic  selec 
tions  in  vaudeville  houses. 

LANGTRY,  Mrs.  Lily  (Mrs.  Hugo  Gerald  de  Bathe)  : 

Actress,  was  born  on  the  Island  of  Jersey,  in  the  English 
Channel,  October  13,  1852.  She  was  the  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
W.  C.  E.  De  Breton,  dean  of  Jersey.  When  she  was  only  sixteen 
years  old  she  was  married  to  Edward  Langtry,  a  wealthy  English 
merchant.  His  wealth  and  her  father's  social  standing  gave  her 
entrance  into  English  society,  her  beauty  making  her  the  recog 
nized  belle,  and  her  close  personal  friendship  with  the  Prince  ot! 
Wales,  now  King  Edward,  made  her  famous.  When  she  decided 
to  go  on  the  professional  stage  in  January,  1882,  the  Prince  and 
all  his  "set"  attended  her  first  appearance  at  the  Haymarken 
Theatre.  It  was  a  great  social  event.  Her  first  part  was  Blanche 
Haye  in  "Ours,"  and  she  subsequently  played  Kate  Hardcastle  in 
"She  Stoops  to  Conquer."'  From  a  society  leader  Mrs.  Langtry 
quickly  developed  into  an  accomplished  actress  and  an  astute 
manager,  with  a  keen  eye  on  box  office  results.  In  the  first  six 


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years  of  her  professional  career  it  is  said  that  she  accumulated 
a  fortune  of  about  half  a  million  dollars  touring  America  and 
the  English  provinces.  Her  principal  parts  were  Rosalind  in 
"As  You  Like  It,"  Cleopatra,  Esther  Sandraz,  Lady  Clancarty  and 
the  leading  role  in  Sydney  Grundy's  "The  Degenerates."  Nearly 
twenty  years  ago  Mrs.  Langtry  forswore  her  allegiance  to  the 
Queen  of  England,  the  friendship  of  whose  eldest  son  had  brought 
her  fame  and  fortune,  and  became  an  American  citizen.  She 
bought  a  large  ranch  in  California  and  spent  much  of  her  time 
in  this  country.  At  one  time  she  had  a  summer  cottage  in  Long- 
Branch,  N.  J.,  where  she  entertained  lavishly,  but  in  bohemian 
fashion.  Under  her  own  management  she  made  several  tours  of 
the  world,  playing  in  the  principal  English-speaking  cities  of 
every  continent.  Both  she  and  her  husband  obtained  divorces, 
she  in  America  and  he  in  England.  In  1897  Mr.  Langtry  died,  a 
poor  and  broken-down  man.  Two  years  later  Mrs.  Langtry  mar 
ried  Hugo  Gerald  de  Bathe,  eldest  son  of  Sir  Henry  de  Bathe, 
Bart,  a  man  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  her  junior.  Mrs.  Lang- 
try  at  one  time  owned  a  large  racing  establishment  at  Regal 
Lodge,  Newmarket,  England,  racing  under  the  name  of  "Mr.  Jer 
sey,"  her  most  famous  horse  being  Merman,  which  won  many  of 
the  English  classic  races.  Her  latest,  most  successful  play  was 
"Mrs.  Bering's  Divorce,"  by  Percy  Fendall.  In  the  season  of 
1905-6  she  played  repertoire  with  her  own  company  in  South 
Africa,  and  afterward  was  seen  in  vaudeville  in  this  country.  She 
was  acting  in  England  the  season  of  1907-8. 

LATJGHLIN,  Miss  Anna  (Mrs.  Dwight  Van  Monroe) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Sacramento,  Cal.,  October  11,  1885.  Her 
first  stage  appearance  was  as  Arthur  May,  a  child  part,  in  "Rose- 
dale"  at  the  Grove  Street  Theatre,  San  Francisco,  September  12, 
1892.  After  a  season  as  Little  Eva  with  Peter  Jackson  and  "Par 
son"  Davies  in  an  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"  company,  she  played  Su 
zanne  La  Ronke  in  "Roger  La  Honte"  at  the  Stockwell  Theatre, 
San  Francisco,  and  another  season  with  the  same  "Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin"  company.  She  next  created  the  role  of  Marjorie  in  Ar 
thur  C.  Sidman's  "A  Summer  Shower,"  starred  in  "Little  Lord 
Fauntleroy, "  and  created  the  part  of  Blind  Ruth  in  "A  Man 
Without  a  Country"  at  the  American  Theatre,  New  York.  After 
a  season  as  Editha  in  "Editha's  Burglar"  she  appeared  for  three 
years  in  vaudeville,  giving  imitations  of  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter,  and 
played  two  years  with  the  Wilbur  Opera  Company.  She  created 
the  soubrette  role  on  the  Casino  roof,  New  York,  in  "The  Casino 
Boy,"  and  was  the  leading  soubrette  in  "The  Belle  of  Bohemia" 
in  London  and  America,  Roxana  Rocks  in  "The  Casino  Girl,"  and 


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soubrette  with  Dan  Daly  in  "The  New  Yorkers."  For  three  years 
she  was  Dorothy  in  "The  Wizard  of  Oz,"  this  role  being  one  of 
her  most  marked  successes.  The  role  of  Bonnie  in  "The  Land  of 
Nod"  was  followed  by  two  months  in  vaudeville  in  New  York 
and  the  role  of  Dolly  Dainty  in  "His  Majesty"  at  the  Majestic 
Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1907-8  Miss  Laughlin  was  iu 
"The  Top  o'  the  World,"  produced  at  the  Majestic  Theatre,  New 
York,  October  19,  1907.  Miss  Laughlin  was  married  July  12,  1904, 
to  Dwight  Van  Monroe,  a  New  York  jeweler. 

LAWRENCE,  Gerald: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England,  and  made  his  first  appearance 
as  a  member  of  F.  R.  Benson's  company,  playing  Shakespearian 
repertoire.  He  made  a  tour  of  South  Africa  with  Lillian  Braith- 
waite,  a  well-known  actress,  who  was  his  first  wife.  This  mar 
riage  was  afterward  dissolved.  Mr.  Lawrence  was  for  a  time  a 
member  of  Beerbohm  Tree's  company  at  His  Majesty's  Theatre, 
London,  and  he  then  became  leading  juvenile  man  with  Sir 
Henry  Irving,  remaining  in  the  company  until  the  death  of  the 
famous  English  actor.  On  May  20,  1906,  Mr.  Lawrence  married 
Fay  Davis,  the  American  actress,  in  Boston.  In  January,  1906, 
Mr.  Lawrence  appeared  in  "The  Prince  of  India"  at  the  Broad 
way  Theatre,  New  York,  and  afterward  was  seen  in  "The  Dear 
Unfair  Sex"  in  support  of  Ellis  Jeffreys  in  New  York. 

LAWRENCE,  Miss  Lillian: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Alexandria,  Va.  Her  early  life  was 
spent  in  San  Francisco,  where,  as  a  child,  she  made  her  first 
appearance  on  the  stage  as  the  Queen's  Knight  in  the  living 
chess  game,  which  was  a  feature  of  the  comic  opera  "The  Royal 
Middy,"  at  the  Bush  Street  Theatre.  Until  she  was  sixteen  years 
old  she  sang  in  light  opera  at  the  California  Theatre  with  Emily 
Melville.  Then  for  two  years  she  was  in  a  stock  company  iu 
Oakland,  Cal.  She  made  her  first  appearance  in  New  York  in 
1892,  supporting  Hortense  Rhea.  After  a  summer  stock  season 
in  Dayton,  Ohio,  she  played  Henrietta  in  "The  Two  Orphans'1 
with  Kate  Claxton.  Engagements  in  New  York  with  Minnie  Se« 
ligman  in  "Lady  Gladys"  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  and 
with  Katherine  Clemmens  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  in  "Mrs.  Dascott, " 
were  followed  by  tours  in  "In  Old  Kentucky"  and  in  Carrie  Tur 
ner's  company.  The  following  year  she  appeared  in  "The  Crust 
of  Society"  under  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman.  She 
then  played  Shakespearian  parts  with  Thomas  W.  Keene.  On 
May  3,  1897,  Miss  Lawrence  began  an  engagement  with  the  Castle 


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Square  Stock  Company,  in  Boston,  which  lasted  many  seasons 
and  during  which  she  played  more  than  one  hundred  leading 
parts,  and  then  formed  the  stock  company  at  the  Globe  Theatre, 
Boston.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  seen  in  "The  Boys  of 
Company  B." 

LE  BARON,  Miss  Louise: 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  Winchester,  Mass.,  and  edu 
cated  in  Boston,  where  she  studied  singing.  She  made  her  first 
appearance  on  the  stage  there  at  the  Colonial  Theatre  July  2, 
1904,  playing  Alan-a-Dale  in  "Robin  Hood''  with  the  Bostonians. 
August  29,  the  same  year,  she  opened  with  the  Fritzi  Scheff  Opera 
Company,  playing  Lady  Jane  in  "Two  Roses,"  and  afterward  ap 
pearing  as  Princess  Lydia  in  "Fatinitza, "  and  Fiametta  in  "Boc 
caccio."  The  season  of  1905-6  she  played  Marie  Louise  de  Bou- 
vray  in  "Mile.  Modiste."  She  made  a  further  study  of  singing 
for  a  year,  and  joined  the  Castle  Square  Company  in  Boston 
April  29,  1907,  playing,  among  other  parts,  Jessa  in  "The  Gondo 
liers,"  Lydia  Hawthorne  in  "Dorothy,"  Lady  Angela  in  "Pa 
tience,"  Fiametta  in  "La  Mascotte,"  etc.  Miss  Le  Baron's  home 
is  at  229  West  Forty-fifth  street,  New  York  City. 

LEE,  Richard  L. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  City  June  1,  1872,  and  was  edu 
cated  at  Trinity  Chapel  School  that  city.  He  made  his  first  ap 
pearance  at  the  Union  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  playing  Blue, 
the  detective,  in  "The  Kentucky  Colonel"  under  the  management 
of  McKee  Rankin  in  September,  1892.  He  was  next  seen  with 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sidney  Drew's  company  in  "That  Girl  from  Mexico." 
He  then  played  Brisemouche  in  "A  Scrap  of  Paper,"  Potter  in 
"Still  Waters  Run  Deep,"  and  Dan  Driscoll  in  "The  Emergency 
Man"  for  two  seasons.  Other  parts  in  which  he  has  scored  are 
Frank  Popham  in  "Forgiven,"  Toby  Twinkle  in  "All  That  Glit 
ters,"  Eccles  and  Sam  Gerridge  in  "Caste,"  Blizzard  in  "Confu 
sion,"  Gaston  in  "Camille,"  etc.  He  played  the  Irish  Doorkeeper 
in  "Tommy  Rot,"  and  Rube  in  "Fad  and  Folly"  with  Mrs.  Os- 
born's  players.  He  was  with  "Checkers"  for  three  seasons,  and 
the  season  of  1906-7  he  was  the  Flute  in  Wagenhals  &  Kemper'r> 
production  of  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream"  with  Miss  Annie 
Russell.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  seen  in  "Miss  Hook  of 
Holland."  Mr.  Lee  enlisted  as  an  ordinary  seaman  and  served 
throughout  the  Spanish-American  War  aboard  the  U.  S.  S.  Yan 
kee.  He  was  mustered  out  of  the  service  September  2,  1898.  His 
home  is  at  102  West  Eighty-fifth  street,  New  York  City. 


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LEHAR,  Franz: 

Composer,  was  born  in  Komorn,  Austria,  April  30,  1870,  his 
father,  the  son  of  a  small  farmer,  being  at  the  time  a  musical 
director  in  the  Austrian  Army.  Franz  composed  his  first  song 
when  he  was  six  years  old  and  dedicated  it  to  his  mother.  At 
eleven  he  went  to  study  at  a  German  gymnasium  at  Sternberg, 
and  a  year  later  became  a  student  at  the  Conservatory  of  Music 
at  Prague.  In  1887  he  submitted  two  compositions  to  Dvorak, 
and  a  year  later,  having  graduated,  he  became  concert  master 
at  the  combined  city  theatres  in  Barmen-Elberfeld  at  a  salary  of 
about  thirty-five  dollars  a  month.  Breaking  his  contract  there, 
in  1889,  he  entered  his  father's  regimental  band  and  soon  after 
became  military  musical  director  in  Losonez.  His  first  dramatic 
composition  was  an  opera  called  "Der  Kurassier."  His  first  pro 
duced  work  was  "Kuska,"  an  opera,  later  called  "Titania,"  which 
was  heard  in  Leipzig  November  12,  1896.  A  succession  of  operas 
followed,  but  gained  little  success.  Then  Lehar  tried  his  hand 
at  light  or  comic  operetta.  The  work  known  in  this  country  as 
"The  Merry  Widow"  was  produced  in  Vienna  early  in  1905  and 
achieved  almost  instantaneous  success.  For  three  successive  sea 
sons  it  was  the  rage  of  Vienna,  Berlin  and  London.  After  a  few 
weeks  in  minor  cities,  it  had  its  metropolitan  production  in  this 
country  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New  York,  October  21, 
1907. 

IEMOYNE,  Mrs.  Sarah  Cowell: 

Actress  and  elocutionist,  was  born  in  New  York,  and  made 
her  first  professional  appearance  in  1878  at  the  Union  Square 
Theatre  there  in  A.  M.  Palmer's  stock  company,  playing  in  "The 
Two  Orphans,"  "French  Flats,"  "The  Banker's  Daughter," 
"Mother  and  Son,"  "A  False  Friend"  and  other  plays.  She  stayed 
with  this  organization  three  seasons,  and  then  decided  that  her 
field  was  that  of  the  reader  and  elocutionist,  gaining  especial  dis 
tinction  as  an  interpreter  of  Robert  Browning.  In  1884  she  vis 
ited  England,  and  was  successful  as  a  reciter  and  reader.  Re 
turning  to  the  American  stage,  Mrs.  Lemoyne  made  a  remarkable 
success  in  the  part  of  the  Dowager  Duchess  de  Coutras  in  Henri 
Lavedan's  comedy  "Catherine,"  and  also  as  Mrs.  Lorimer  in  "The 
Moth  and  the  Flame."  In  1899  Mrs.  Lemoyne  starred  in  "Tha 
Greatest  Thing  in  the  World,"  by  Harriet  Ford  and  Beatrice  De 
Mille.  The  following  year  she  played  the  Queen  in  Browning's 
tragedy,  "In  a  Balcony,"  Otis  Skinner  being  the  Norbert  and 
Eleanor  Robson  the  Constance.  In  1906  she  appeared  in  "Pippa 
Passes,"  by  Browning,  at  the  Majestic  Theatre,  New  York.  In 


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1888  Sarah  Cowell  was  married  to  the  late  William  J.  Lemoyne, 
and  has  since  used  her  married  name  upon  the  stage. 

LENNON,  Nestor  Forbes  Richardson: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Richmond,  Va.,  in  1863.  He  studied  act 
ing  at  a  college  of  oratory  in  New  York,  and  made  his  first  ap 
pearance  there  as  an  amateur  in  1879,  playing  a  small  part  in 
"Antony  and  Cleopatra."  His  first  professional  engagement  was 
with  Lawrence  Barrett  when  he  was  only  seventeen  years  old, 
his  first  part  being  the  Messenger  in  "Othello"  at  Des  Moines, 
Iowa.  The  same  year,  1881,  he  played  in  "Othello"  with  Booth 
and  Barrett  at  the  Academy  of  Music,  New  York.  His  first  prin 
cipal  part  was  Henry  Marston  in  "The  Professor"  at  the  Madi 
son  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1883.  His  first  pronounced 
success  was  as  Anthony  March  in  "Called  Back"  at  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Theatre,  New  York,  under  the  management  of  A.  M. 
Palmer.  Other  parts  in  which  Mr.  Lennon  has  been  successful 
are  Ruby  Darrell  in  "Hearts  of  Oak,"  Dike  Hampton  in  "The 
Minute  Men,"  Lord  Clifford  in  "Jack  Cade,"  lago  in  "Othello," 
under  James  Collier's  management;  Prince  Ferdinand  in  "The 
Tempest"  at  McVickers's  Theatre,  Chicago;  Max  de  Lieussiers 
in  Sardou's  "Exiles,"  the  Artist  in  "The  Noble  Rogue"  with 
Steele  Mackay  in  Chicago,  and  afterward  in  the  same  play,  re 
named  "Money  Mad,"  at  the  Standard  Theatre,  New  York.  He 
played  Rudolph  in  the  revival  of  "The  Black  Crook"  at  the  New 
York  Academy  of  Music,  and  has  since  played  hundreds  of  lead 
ing  parts.  The  season  of  1905-6  he  starred  in  a  repertoire  of 
such  plays  as  "\vhen  We  Were  Twenty-one,"  "My  Partner,"  and 
"Hearts  Aflame."  He  played  in  "Brewster's  Millions"  during 
the  seasons  of  1906-7-8.  He  is  expert  at  boxing,  swimming  and 
horseback  riding. 

LESLIE,  Miss  Elsie  (Mrs.  Jefferson  Winter)  : 

Actress,  daughter  of  B.  Tanner  Lyde,  was  born  in  New  York 
City  August  14,  1881,  and  educated  by  private  tutors  here  and 
abroad.  She  made  her  first  appearance  when  five  years  old  as 
Little  Meenie  in  "Rip  Van  Winkle"  with  the  late  Joseph  Jeffer 
son  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  the  following  year  appeared  as  Hen- 
drick  in  the  same  company  and  play.  The  season  of  1887-8  she 
made  her  first  marked  success  as  Editha  in  "Editha's  Burglar"  at 
the  old  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York,  with  E.  H.  Sothern  as  the 
Burglar.  So  pleased  was  Mrs.  Burnett  with  Miss  Leslie's  por 
trayal  of  the  role  that  she  stipulated  the  young  actress  should 
originate  the  title  part  in  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy,"  and  the  fol 
lowing  season  she  opened  in  that  play  at  the  Boston  Museum. 


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For  the  next  three  years  Miss  Leslie  starred  under  Daniel  Froh- 
man  in  Mark  Twain's  "The  Prince  and  the  Pauper,"  playing  the 
dual  role.  She  opened  at  Philadelphia  in  the  fall  of  1889  and 
played  the  remainder  of  her  engagement  at  the  Broadway  Thea 
tre,  New  York.  Then  she  retired  from  the  stage  and  took  up 
her  studies  again.  On  October  10,  1898,  she  returned  to  the  pro 
fession  as  Jefferson's  leading  woman  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  playing  Lydia  Languish  in  "The  Rivals."  Sub 
sequently  she  appeared  as  Dot  in  "The  Cricket  on  the  Hearth. "" 
In  1900  she  became  co-star  with  B.  J.  Morgan  in  "The  Chris 
tian"  as  Glory  Quayle  under  the  Liebler  management.  The  fall 
of  1907  she  played  the  leading  female  role  in  "The  Man  on  the 
Case"  under  Walter  N.  Lawrence's  management.  She  then  toured 
in  "The  Man  on  the  Box"  with  Jameson  Lee  Finney.  Miss  Leslie 
was  married  to  Jefferson  Winter,  actor  and  son  of  William  Win 
ter,  the  critic,  on  August  27,  1901.  Her  home  is  at  17  Third 
avenue,  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y. 

LESSING,  Miss  Madge: 

Actress,  was  born  in  London,  England,  and  in  1894  came  to 
America  to  appear  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Lady 
Tom-a-Line  in  "The  Passing  Show."  On  June  29,  1896,  she  was 
seen  at  that  theatre  in  "In  Gay  New  York,"  and  in  the  fall  of 
that  year  played  the  role  of  Jack  Hubbard  in  "Jack  and  the  Bean 
stalk."  In  May,  1897,  she  appeared  in  "The  Whirl  of  the  Town" 
as  Dimples.  She  subsequently  was  seen  in  numerous  musical 
comedies,  and  on  December  26,  1900,  made  her  first  London  ap 
pearance  in  "Sleeping  Beauty  and  the  Beast"  at  the  Drury  Lane 
Theatre.  In  April,  1902,  she  appeared  as  Eliza  Carter  in  "All  on 
Account  of  Eliza"  at  the  Shaftesbury  Theatre,  London;  in  1903 
as  Little  Em'ly  in  "Em'ly,"  and  then  returned  to  America,  tour 
ing  in  "Erminie"  with  Francis  Wilson.  The  year  following  she 
toured  with  De  Wolf  Hopper  in  "Wang,"  then  returned  to  Lon 
don,  appearing  as  Aurora  Brue  in  "Sergeant  Brue"  at  the  Prince 
of  Wales's  Theatre.  The  season  of  1906-7  she  was  seen  as  Elsie 
in  "Noah's  Ark"  at  the  Waldorf  Theatre,  London.  The  season 
of  1907-8  she  played  in  "The  Prince  of  Pilsen"  in  Paris,  France. 

LESTER,  Miss  Kate: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Shouldam  Thorpe,  Norfolk,  England. 
One  of  her  ancestors,  Sir  William  Butts,  was  physician  to  King 
Henry  VIII,  and  appears  as  one  of  the  characters  in  Shake 
speare's  "King  Henry  VIII."  His  portrait,  painted  by  Holbein, 
now  hangs  in  the  National  Gallery  at  London.  Miss  Lester  made 
her  first  appearance,  after  a  year's  study  with  Dion  Boucicault, 


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in  "Partners"  at  the  old  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York, 
with  the  Madison  Square  Stock  Company  when  Alexander  Sal- 
vini  was  its  leading  man.  She  afterward  played  Ruth  Rolt  in 
Pinero's  "Sweet  Lavender"  under  the  management  of  Charles 
Prohman.  Her  continued  success  in  minor  parts  led  to  her  en 
gagement  as  his  leading  woman  by  Richard  Mansfield  in  1891, 
and  she  continued  to  support  him  for  the  two  following  years. 
The  next  year  she  was  with  Marie  Burroughs  on  her  starring 
tour.  There  followed  three  seasons  with  William  H.  Crane,  two 
with  Mary  Mannering  and  one  with  Julia  Marlowe.  In  1905  Miss 
Lester  played  with  John  Drew's  company  in  "The  Duke  of  Killi- 
crankie."  In  1906  she  appeared  with  the  "Brown  of  Harvard" 
company  at  the  Princess  Theatre,  New  York,  and  continued  with 
it  two  seasons. 

LEVEY,  Miss  Ethel  (Grace  Ethelia) : 

Comedienne  and  dancer,  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Novem 
ber  22,  1880.  She  appeared  in  amateur  theatricals  from  the  time 
she  was  eight  years  old  as  an  elocutionist  and  pianiste.  She  made 
her  professional  debut  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  San  Francisco, 
New  Year's  eve,  1897,  with  Hoyt's  "A  Milk  White  Flag"  in  a 
coon  song  specialty.  Her  first  popular  success  was  made  at  a 
Sunday  night  concert  at  Weber  &  Fields's  Music  Hall,  New  York. 
It  led  to  an  engagement  in  Koster  &  Bial's  Music  Hall,  New 
York,  which  lasted  for  twenty  weeks,  after  which  she  signed  with 
Weber  &  Fields.  The  first  season  Miss  Levey  entered  the  vaude 
ville  field  she  appeared  with  a  company  headed  by  Joe  Hart  and 
Carrie  De  Mar.  She  next  joined  the  Hyde  &  Behman  Specialty 
Company  to  be  with  George  M.  Cohan,  whom  she  had  married 
the  previous  summer.  She  then  appeared  in  all  of  George  M. 
Cohan's  productions,  including  "Running  for  Office,"  "The  Gov 
ernor's  Son,"  "Little  Johnny  Jones,"  and  "George  Washington, 
Jr.,"  until  1906.  She  obtained  a  divorce  from  Mr.  Cohan  Febru 
ary  18,  1907.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  in  vaudeville. 

LEWIS,  Miss  Ada: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York,  but  spent  her  early  life  in 
San  Francisco,  where  she  made  her  first  appearance  in  "Siberia" 
at  the  Alcazar  Theatre.  After  considerable  experience  on  the 
Pacific  Coast  Miss  Lewis  joined  Edward  Harrigan,  making  her 
first  appearance  in  New  York  December  29,  1890  as  Kitty  Lyncli 
in  "Reilly  and  the  400."  Since  then  she  has  been  seen  as  a  tough 
girl  in  many  productions,  notably  with  Peter  F.  Dailey  in  "The 
Country  Sport";  with  May  Irwin  in  "The  Widow  Jones"  and 
"Courted  Into  Court,"  and  with  the  Rogers  Brothers  in  "A  Reign 


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of  Error"  and  "The  Rogers  Brothers  in  Wall  Street."  She  was 
seen  with  Peter  Dailey  in  "The  Hall  of  Fame,"  and  then  sup 
ported  Blanche  Bates  in  "The  Darling  of  the  Gods."  The  sea 
son  of  1905-6  she  played  in  "Fritz  in  Tammany  Hall,"  and  "The 
Press  Agent."  The  following  season  she  was  in  "The  Social 
Whirl"  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York,  and  the  season  of 
1907-8  she  played  in  "Fascinating  Flora"  at  the  same  theatre. 

LEWIS,  Frederick: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  February  14,  1873,  being 
the  son  of  James  L.  and  Jeanette  Virginia  Lewis.  His  first  ap 
pearance  on  the  professional  stage  was  in  1891.  For  three  or 
four  years  thereafter  he  played  with  various  road  companies, 
and  later  became  a  member  of  the  Lyceum  Stock  Company,  New 
York,  playing  in  "When  a  Man's  Married,"  a  curtain  raiser  to 
"The  First  Gentleman  of  Europe."  After  a  season  in  "The  Pris 
oner  of  Zenda"  he  played  Charley  Underholt  in  "My  Friend  from 
India,"  and  Lieutenant  Telfair  in  "The  Heart  of  Maryland."  A 
season  with  George  Fawcett  as  leading  juvenile  man  of  his  Balti 
more  Stock  Company  led  to  his  becoming  leading  man  for  two 
seasons,  in  one  of  which,  with  Mary  Shaw  as  star,  part  of  the 
company  gave  a  series  of  matinees  of  Ibsen's  "Ghosts"  at  the 
Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York,  Mr.  Lewis  playing  the  part  of  Os 
wald  Alving.  The  matinees  were  also  given  at  Mrs.  Osborn's. 
Playhouse,  New  York.  Mr.  Lewis  next  appeared  as  Orlando  in 
"As  You  Like  It,"  supporting  Henrietta  Crosman;  starred  in  a 
dramatization  of  the  life  of  Edgar  Allan  Poe,  called  "The  Raven," 
and  appeared  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Pro 
fessor  Arnold  Rubek  in  Ibsen's  "When  We  Dead  Awake."  In  the 
meantime  he  played  in  summer  stock  companies  in  Rochester 
and  New  York.  The  seasons  of  1905-6-7  he  was  leading  man  with 
E.  H.  Sothern  and  Julia  Marlowe,  playing  Mercutio  in  "Romeo 
and  Juliet,"  Bassanio  in  "The  Merchant  of  Venice,"  Duke  Orsino 
in  "Twelfth  Night"  Don  Pedro  in  "Much  Ado  About  Nothing," 
and  Horatio  in  "Hamlet."  He  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs  and 
The  Players,  and  is  fond  of  all  out-of-door  sports. 

LIPMAN,  Miss  Clara  (Mrs.  Louis  Mann)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Chicago.  She  made  her  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  in  Kiralfy's  "The  Bat  Catcher."  She  next 
played  the  ingenue  role  in  Madame  Modjeska's  production  of 
"Odette,"  and  created  the  leading  woman's  part  in  "Incog."  un 
der  the  management  of  the  late  A.  M.  Palmer.  She  afterward 
played  leading  juvenile  parts  with  Mitterwurzer,  the  German  star, 
in  Chicago.  Becoming  the  wife  of  Louis  Mann,  the  comedian,  she 


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starred  with  him  in  "The  Laughing  Girl,"  "The  Strange  Adven 
tures  of  Miss  Brown,"  and  "The  Telephone  Girl,"  and  created  the 
part  of  Julie  Bon  Bon  in  "The  Girl  from  Paris,"  making  her 
greatest  success  in  that  role.  She  afterward  starred  in  many 
musical  comedies  with  her  husband.  The  season  of  1905-6  they 
starred  in  a  comedy  called  "Julie  Bon  Bon,"  written  by  Miss 
Lipman.  Miss  Lipman's  New  York  address  is  310  West  One  Hun 
dred  and  First  street. 

LITTLEFIELD,  Miss  Emma  (Mrs.  Victor  Frederick  Moore)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  January  12,  1883,  and 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  there.  She  made  her  first 
stage  appearance  in  Fall  River,  Mass.,  in  "In  Atlantic  City"  Sep 
tember  6,  1901,  and  later  was  the  soubrette  in  "Town  Topics,"  and 
''Side  Tracked."  In  1903  she  went  into  vaudeville  with  a  female 
partner,  and  two  years  later  joined  Victor  Moore  in  his  one-act 
sketch,  "Change  Your  Act."  The  season  of  1906-7  she  played  the 
role  of  Flora  Dora  Dean  in  "Forty-five  Minutes  from  Broadway." 
The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  seen  as  Isabelle  McFadden  in  George 
M.  Cohan's  "The  Talk  of  New  York,"  produced  at  the  Knicker 
bocker  Theatre,  New  York,  December  3,  1907.  Miss  Littlefield 
married  Victor  Moore,  actor,  June  26,  1903.  Her  home  is  at  148 
West  Sixty-seventh  street,  New  York. 

LOFTUS,  Miss  Cecilia  (Marie  Cissie) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  in  1876,  being  the 
daughter  of  Marie  Loftus,  a  well-known  English  vaudeville  singer 
and  dancer.  Miss  Loftus  was  educated  in  convent  schools  in 
England,  and  in  one  of  them  played  Ariel  in  a  performance  of 
"The  Tempest."  She  showed  such  extraordinary  talent  for 
mimicry  when  she  was  only  fifteen  years  old  that  she  was  taken 
from  school  and,  as  Cissie  Loftus,  put  at  the  head  of  the  bill 
at  the  Oxford  Music  Hall,  London,  where  her  imitations  of  well- 
known  actresses  caused  her  almost  immediately  to  become  a  star. 
After  a  brief  season  in  musical  comedy,  at  the  Gaiety  Theatre, 
Miss  Loftus  again  returned  to  vaudeville.  In  1896  she  broke  her 
professional  engagement  and  eloped  with  Justin  Huntly  McCar 
thy,  the  novelist  and  son  of  a  leader  of  the  Irish  party  in  the 
English  House  of  Commons:  The  marriage  did  not  prove  a  suc 
cess,  and  they  were  divorced  in  the  United  States  some  years 
later.  In  1898  Miss  Loftus  appeared  in  "The  Children  of  the 
King"  with  Martin  Harvey  at  the  Court  Theatre,  London.  The 
following  year  she  again  abandoned  the  legitimate  stage  and  went 
to  the  United  States,  giving  her  imitations  at  the  vaudeville 
houses.  She  afterward  appeared  in  New  York  in  comedy  under 


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the  management  of  Charles  Frohman  with  such  success  that  she 
was  engaged  by  the  late  Sir  Henry  Irving  as  successor  to  Ellen 
Terry,  and  with  him  she  played  Marguerite  in  "Faust"  at  the 
Lyceum  Theatre,  London,  in  1903.  The  following  season  she 
was  starred  by  Mr.  Frohman  in  this  country.  In  1905  she  played 
"Peter  Pan"  at  the  Duke  of  York's  Theatre,  London.  In  1906  she 
was  seen  in  this  country  in  a  vaudeville  sketch,  "The  Diamond 
Express."  The  season  of  1906-7  she  was  in  "The  Dream  City"  at 
Weber's  Theatre,  New  York,  and  later  was  joint  star  with  Law- 
ranee  D'Orsay  in  "The  Lancers." 

LONG,  John  Luther: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  in  1861,  and  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  there.  His  best-known  plays  are 
"The  Darling  of  the  Gods,"  written  in  collaboration  with  David 
Belasco  and  produced  at  the  Belasco  Theatre,  New  York,  with 
Blanche  Bates  in  the  title  role  in  1905;  "Madame  Butterfly,"  a 
one-act  drama;  "Dolce,"  and  "Adrea,"  also  in  conjunction  with 
Belasco  and  produced  at  the  Belasco  Theatre,  New  York,  with 
Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  in  the  leading  role  in  1906.  He  has  written 
numerous  short  plays  and  stories.  Mr.  Long's  home  is  in  Ash- 
bourne,  Pa. 

LONGFELLOW,  Miss  Stephanie: 

Actress;  is  a  niece  of  the  poet,  Henry  W.  Longfellow.  When 
she  left  school  she  became  understudy  to  Miss  Mabelle  Oilman 
in  "The  Runaway  Girl"  under  the  management  of  the  late  Au- 
gustin  Daly.  She  then  played  Susan  in  "When  Johnny  Comes 
Marching  Home,"  and  afterward  Poppy  in  "San  Toy."  Forsaking 
musical  comedy,  she  played  ingenue  parts  in  the  F.  F.  Proctor 
Stock  Company,  the  Broadway  Theatre  Stock  Company  of  Den 
ver,  and  the  Empire  Stock  Company  of  Boston.  The  season  of 
1906-7  she  was  with  "The  Cow  Puncher."  The  season  of  1907-8 
she  played  the  part  of  Pert  in  "Checkers." 

LONNON,  Miss  Alice  (Alice  Lonnon  Perkins  Lonsdale) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Oakland,  Cal.,  December  28,  1872,  being 
the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Charlotte  Perkins.  She  was  educated 
in  San  Francisco,  and  before  going  on  the  stage  taught  elocution 
and  expression.  She  made  her  first  appearance  in  January,  1897, 
at  the  Baldwin  Theatre,  San  Francisco,  as  Teresa  in  "Magda" 
with  Mme.  Modjeska  under  the  management  of  Al.  Hayman.  The 
same  year  she  played  short  engagements  with  Joseph  Haworth, 
T.  D.  Frawley  and  Frank  Bacon  on  the  Coast.  The  seasons  of 
1898-9  and  1900  she  appeared  in  repertoire  with  L.  R.  Stockwell, 


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Clay  Clement  and  others,  and  in  November,  1900,  joined  E.  S. 
Willard,  with  whom  she  played  seven  seasons  as  leading  woman, 
appearing  in  "The  Rogue's  Comedy,"  "All  for  Her,"  "Tom  Pinch" 
and  numerous  other  plays.  The  season  of  1903-4  she  went  to 
London  with  Mr.  Willard,  appearing  as  Filiberta  in  "The  Car 
dinal"  at  the  St.  James  Theatre.  The  seasons  of  1905-6-7  she 
played  all  the  leads  in  Mr.  Willard's  repertoire  on  tour.  On  No 
vember  4,  1907,  she  was  seen  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  as 
Kathleen  in  Sir  Gilbert  Parker's  "The  Right  of  Way."  Miss  Lou- 
non  married  H.  Gettus  Lonsdale,  an  actor,  March  20,  1899.  She 
has  a  cousin,  Paul  Pilkington,  on  the  stage. 

LORAINE,  Robert: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England,  being  the  son  of  the  late  Henry 
Loraine,  a  well-known  tragedian.  He  made  his  first  appearance 
in  the  provinces  in  1889,  and  was  not  seen  in  London  until  Janu 
ary  7,  1896,  when  he  played  Tony  in  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda"  at 
the  St.  James  Theatre.  After  important  engagements  at  Drury 
Lane  and  other  London  theatres  Mr.  Loraine  went  to  South 
Africa  as  a  volunteer  and  saw  much  service  during  the  Boer 
War.  He  made  his  first  appearance  in  this  country  at  the  Knick 
erbocker  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Ralph  Percy  in  "To  Have  and 
To  Hold"  March  4,  1901.  An  appearance  as  Henry  V  in  a  revival 
in  London  followed  and,  returning  to  the  United  States,  Mr. 
Loraine  appeared  as  David  Garrick  with  Miss  Grace  George  in 
"Pretty  Peggy"  in  1903.  The  following  year  he  played  in  "The 
Mysterious  Mr.  Bugle,"  and  "The  Idler."  He  appeared  as  Lieut. 
Von  Lauffen  in  "Taps"  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New  York,  Septem 
ber  17,  1904,  and  as  King  Edward  IV  in  "The  Lady  Shore"  the 
season  of  1904-5.  After  playing  in  "The  Proud  Laird"  at  the 
Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York,  the  spring  of  1905,  on  September 
5  of  the  same  year  he  was  seen  as  John  Tanner  in  "Man  and 
Superman"  at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New  York,  playing  it  two 
seasons  in  this  country  and  in  London,  England,  the  summer  of 
1907. 

LORIMER,  Wright: 

Actor,  was  born  at  Athol,  Worcester  County,  Mass.,  March  10, 
1874,  and  was  educated  at  Colgate  University,  this  country,  and 
Oxford  University,  England.  His  first  stage  experience  was  in 
1899,  when  he  acted  as  a  "super"  with  the  Dearborn  Stock  Com 
pany,  Chicago.  Before  the  end  of  the  season  he  played  speaking 
parts  and  then  toured  in  "The  Three  Musketeers."  For  two  sea 
sons  he  played  the  leading  part  in  "The  Power  Behind  the 
Throne,"  and  then  decided  to  star  in  his  own  play,  "The  Shep- 


288  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

herd  King,"  which  had  its  first  production  at  the  Knickerbocker 
Theatre,  New  York,  April  5,  1904,  and  continued  in  favor  for 
three  seasons.  During  that  time  Mr.  Lorimer  also  appeared  as 
Hjalmar  Ekdal  in  Ibsen's  "Wild  Duck."  The  season  of  1907-8 
he  starred  in  "The  Quicksands,"  by  Alicia  Ramsey  and  Rudolph 
de  Cordova. 

XOTTA: 

See  Crabtree,  Miss  Charlotte. 

XOWKIE,  Miss  Jeanette  (Mrs.  Thomas  Q.  Seabrooke) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Cardiff,  Wales,  but  came  to  this  country 
as  a  child.  She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  as  Kitty  Ives 
in  "The  Wife,"  and  then  played  ingenue  parts  with  Clara  Mor 
ris  and  Roland  Reed.  She  first  appeared  with  Mr.  Seabrooke, 
whom  she  subsequently  married,  in  "The  Speculator."  After  en 
gagements  with  B.  H.  Sothern  in  "An  Enemy  of  the  King,"  and 
with  the  "Sporting  Life"  and  "Mile.  Fifi"  companies,  she  was 
seen  with  Mr.  Seabrooke  in  "The  Rounders."  Her  next  engage 
ments  were  in  "Florodora,"  "King  Highball,"  and  "Sally  in  Our 
Alley."  She  then  made  a  big  success  as  the  Lady  Lunatic  in 
"'The  Wizard  of  Oz."  Following  engagements  were  at  the  Broad 
way  Tbetkfcce*  New  York,  in  "The  Medal  and  the  Maid,"  and  with 
L,eirM«ids  in  "It  Happened  in  Nordland."  The  season  of  1906-7 
Miss  Lowrie  played  Griselda  in  "The  Free  Lance,"  and  the  fall 
of  1907  she  starred  in  "Yama,"  opening  at  the  Walnut  Street 
Theatre,  Philadelphia.  She  then  went  into  vaudeville. 

1TJBY,  Miss  Edna: 

Actress  and  mimic,  was  born  in  New  York  October  12,  1884, 
and  was  taken  to  London  by  her  parents  when  a  baby.  She  was 
educated  in  England,  and  first  attracted  attention  by  mimicking 
her  schoolfellows.  When  she  was  ten  years  old  she  began  to 
study  for  the  stage,  taking  lessons  in  elocution  from  Genevieve 
Ward,  the  famous  actress.  Returning  to  this  country,  she  made 
her  first  appearance,  when  she  was  sixteen  years  old,  at  the  Gar 
den  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Dorothy  Woodberry  in  "Hearts  Are 
Trumps,"  produced  in  1900  by  Charles  Frohman,  and  after  a  little 
while,  having  understudied  the  part,  she  played  Dora,  the  prin 
cipal  role.  She  continued  under  the  management  of  Charles 
Frohman  the  following  three  seasons,  and  made  her  first  con 
spicuous  success  in  the  part  of  Estelle  in  "The  Two  Schools"  at 
the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  taking  the  place  of  the 
leading  woman.  After  playing  in  "To  Have  and  To  Hold,"  and 
"The  New  Clown,"  Miss  Luby  went  into  vaudeville,  appearing  at 


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290  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Tony  Pastor's  Theatre,  New  York.  She  was  with  Fritzi  Scheff 
in  "Babette"  for  a  season  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  she  then  went  into  vaudeville  again,  giving  her  well-known 
imitations  and  appearing  at  all  the  Keith  &  Proctor  and  Percy 
Williams  houses.  The  season  of  1906-7  she  was  with  Anna  Held 
in  "The  Parisian  Model"  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  then  was  seen  in  "Fascinating  Flora"  at  the  Casino  Theatre, 
New  York.  She  appeared  subsequently  on  the  New  York  roof  in 
"Follies  of  1907."  The  season  of  1907-8  she  returned  to  vaude 
ville.  Miss  Luby's  New  York  address  is  2610  Broadway. 

LYONS,  Miss  Gretchen  (Mrs.  Lucius  Henderson)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  India,  where  her  father,  the  late  Ed 
mund  D.  Lyons,  a  well-known  actor,  and  his  wife,  a  dancer 
known  on  the  stage  as  Jeanette  Thompson,  were  fulfilling  an 
engagement.  As  a  baby  she  was  taken  to  England,  and  made  her 
first  appearance  on  the  stage  there  when  only  six  months  old. 
When  three  years  old  she  acted  the  child  in  "Deacon  Brody,"  in 
which  the  late  E.  J.  Henley  starred  in  this  country.  She  ap 
peared  in  the  drama  called  "Human  Nature,"  but  known  in  this 
country  as  "In  the  Soudan,"  on  its  first  production  at  Drury 
Lane  Theatre,  London,  and  she  also  played  the  title  role  in 
"Jack  in  the  Box."  About  1890  she  came  to  this  country  with 
her  father,  and  has  since  played  in  the  companies  of  Richard 
Mansfield,  J.  K.  Hackett,  Kyrle  Bellew,  Otis  Skinner,  etc.  She 
made  one  of  her  greatest  successes  in  the  farce  "The  Mysterious 
Mr.  Bugle"  on  its  production  in  Chicago. 

McGILVRAY,  Miss  Laura  (Mrs.  Frank  Gillmore)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Chicago,  her  birth  name  being  Mac  Gil- 
livray.  Her  first  desire  was  to  become  a  reader,  and  she  achieved 
success  in  that  line,  particularly  in  Toronto,  Ottawa  and  the 
neighboring  cities.  Her  stage  debut  was  made  as  Wilbur's  Ann 
in  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me."  Then  followed  a  long  tour  as 
Lady  Windermere  in  "Lady  Windermere's  Fan."  In  E.  M.  Hol 
land's  production  of  "A  Social  Highwayman"  at  the  Garrick 
Theatre,  New  York,  Miss  McGilvray  played  the  part  of  the 
French  maid.  After  her  marriage  in  1896  to  Frank  Gillmore  she 
and  her  husband  went  to  London.  While  there  she  was  a  mem 
ber  of  John  Hare's  company  for  three  years,  being  in  the  origi 
nal  cast  of  "The  Gay  Lord  Quex."  Her  recent  appearances  in 
this  country  have  been  with  Mrs.  Fiske.  One  season  she  played 
Amelia  in  "Becky  Sharpe,"  and  little  Abraham  in  "Tess."  In 
the  run  of  Ibsen's  "Hedda  Gabler"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre, 
New  York,  Miss  McGilvray  played  Mrs.  Elvested. 


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McINTOSH,  Burr: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Wellsville,  Ohio,  August  11,  1862,  and  was 
educated  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  at  Lafayette  College,  Easton,  Pa.,  and 
at  Princeton,  where  he  was  prominent  in  all  athletic  sports.  Be 
fore  going  on  the  stage  he  was  a  newspaper  man,  having  been 
on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Philadelphia  News.  He  made  his 
first  professional  appearance  in  Bartley  Campbell's  "Paquita"  at 
the  Fourteenth  Street  Theatre,  New  York,  August  21,  1885.  After 
one  season  on  the  stage  he  returned  to  newspaper  work.  In  1888 
he  again  became  an  actor,  playing  many  prominent  parts,  and 
making  his  greatest  success  as  Taffy  in  "Trilby"  on  its  first  pro 
duction  in  this  country.  A  few  years  ago  Mr.  Mclntosh  left  the 
stage,  to  devote  himself  to  photography  and  the  publication  of 
Burr  Mclntosh's  Monthly.  He  accompanied  W.  H.  Taft  and  Miss 
Alice  Roosevelt  on  their  memorable  trip  to  the  Philippines  as 
official  photographer,  and  afterward  lectured  on  the  experience. 
In  September,  1907,  Mr.  Mclntosh  was  seen  in  vaudeville  in  n, 
sketch  called  "The  Colonel's  Christmas  Eve,"  after  which  he  con 
tinued  to  lecture  in  vaudeville  houses. 

McINTYRE  and  HEATH  (James  Mclntyre;  George  Heath) : 

Actors  and  negro  minstrels;  have  been  so  intimately  asso 
ciated  for  so  many  years  that  separate  sketches  of  their  careers 
would  be  mere  repetitions.  Mr.  Mclntyre  was  born  in  Kenosha, 
Wis.,  in  1857,  and  Mr.  Heath  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  in  1852.  As 
children  living  in  the  South,  the  boys  studied  the  language  and 
characteristics  of  the  negro  "befo'  de  war."  They  have  made  a 
close  study  of  their  subject  since.  Mclntyre  and  Heath  joined 
forces  in  1874  and  have  worked  together  ever  since.  Before  that 
Mr.  Mclntyre  was  with  Kate  Putnam,  touring  the  South,  doing  a 
clog  dance  and  playing  Little  Willie  in  "East  Lynne."  In  1869 
he  joined  a  wagon  circus,  to  sing  and  dance,  traveling  through 
the  mountains  of  Alabama.  When  the  team  first  came  together 
their  joint  salary  was  twenty  dollars  a  week.  They  made  their 
first  important  success  in  Chicago,  where  they  introduced  buck 
and  wing  dancing,  which  was  unknown  on  the  stage  at  that 
time,  and  their  salary  jumped  to  one  hundred  dollars  a  week.  In 
1876  they  introduced  buck  and  wing  dancing  at  Tony  Pastor's, 
in  New  York,  and  made  another  hit.  Then  they  gradually  dropped 
dancing  and  took  up  the  comedy  side  of  stage  work.  One  of  their 
most  successful  acts  is  "The  Georgia  Minstrels."  This  skit  is 
still  utilized  by  them.  For  the  last  three  seasons  Mclntyre  and 
Heath  have  been  seen  in  "The  Ham  Tree"  under  the  manage 
ment  of  Klaw  &  Erlanger. 


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McLAUGHLIN,  Miss  Millicent: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Wilnecote,  London,  England,  and  edu 
cated  at  the  Royal  College  of  Music,  London,  and  under  M. 
Bouhy  in  Paris,  appearing  for  several  years,  before  making  her 
professional  debut,  on  the  concert  stage.  On  July  1,  1902,  she 
appeared  as  Iris  in  "The  Tempest,"  and  later  came  to  America 
to  tour  with  Edith  Wynne  Matthison  throughout  the  United 
States,  under  Ben  Greet's  management,  appearing  as  Knowledge 
in  "Everyman,"  and  small  parts  in  Shakespearian  repertoire. 
She  then  returned  to  London  and  was  seen  in  "Merely  Mary 
Ann,"  "Peggy  Machree,"  and  as  Stella  in  "His  Excellency  the 
Governor."  The  season  of  1905-6  she  toured  with  Sothern  and 
Marlowe  in  repertoire.  The  season  of  1906-7  she  appeared  ID 
"Ranson's  Folly,"  and  that  of  1907-8  was  seen  in  "Classmates" 
with  Robert  Edeson.  Her  address  is  117  East  Thirty-fourth 
street,  New  York. 

McLAURIN,  Miss  Kate: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Yazoo  City,  Miss.,  in  1885,  and  educated 
at  private  school  there.  Later  she  attended  the  Anna  Morgan 
School  in  Chicago,  where  her  taste  for  theatricals  developed,  and 
she  became  prominent  in  amateur  dramatic  clubs  of  that  city. 
She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  in  "The  Daughters  of  Men" 
in  1906,  also  understudying  Dorothy  Donnelly,  the  leading  woman. 
The  season  of  1907-8  she  supported  Edgar  Selwyn  in  "Strong- 
heart"  on  tour. 

McLELLAN,  C.  M.  S. : 

Playwright,  who  first  wrote  under  the  name  of  Hugh  Morton, 
was  born  in  1865  in  Maine.  He  is  a  brother  of  George  McLellan, 
theatrical  manager.  He  first  was  a  journalist,  at  one  time  being 
editor  of  Town  Topics.  He  wrote  the  librettos  of  "The  Belle  of 
New  York,"  "The  Whirl  of  the  Town,"  "In  Gay  New  York,"  "An 
American  Beauty,"  "The  Telephone  Girl,"  "Yankee  Doodle  Dan 
dy,"  "The  Wire  Walker"  and  other  musical  pieces.  He  came  into 
notice  as  a  writer  of  serious  drama  with  "Leah  Kleschna,"  pro 
duced  in  New  York  by  Mrs.  Fiske  the  season  of  1905-6.  He  is 
also  the  author  of  "On  the  Love  Path,"  played  at  the  Haymarket 
Theatre,  London,  in  the  same  year,  and  "The  Jury  of  Fate,"  pro 
duced  at  the  Shaftesbury  Theatre,  London,  in  1906. 

McMILLEN,  Miss  Violet  (Mrs.  G.  W.  Bird) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Grand  Rapids,  March  4,  1885,  and  was 
graduated  from  the  public  schools  and  High  School  in  that  city. 
She  made  her  first  professional  appearance  there  in  vaudeville 


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in  1903,  under  the  management  of  E.  D.  Stair,  making  such  a 
success  that  Mr.  Stair  wrote  a  special  part  for  her  in  "The  Show 
Girl,"  called  the  Kid,  in  which  she  attracted  much  attention  by 
her  singing  of  the  song  "Won't  You  Fondle  Me?"  After  that  she 
was  with  Miss  Stella  Mayhew  for  two  seasons,  following  which 
she  played  Dorothy  in  "The  Wizard  of  Oz"  for  one  season.  In 
August,  1906,  she  opened  at  the  La  Salle  Theatre,  Chicago,  in 
"The  Time,  the  Place  and  the  Girl,"  playing  the  Girl  with  such 
success  that  the  piece  ran  465  performances.  A  short  run  in  Bos 
ton  was  followed  by  a  run  of  four  weeks  at  Wallack's  Theatre, 
New  York,  which  commenced  August  5,  1907.  The  fall  of  1907 
Miss  McMillen  was  married  to  G.  W.  Bird,  an  automobile  manu 
facturer,  of  Chicago.  Her  favorite  recreations  are  motoring  and 
horseback  riding.  Her  home  is  at  121  Benson  street,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 

McRAE,  Bruce : 

Actor,  was  born  in  India,  being  the  son  of  a  surgeon  in  the 
English  Army.  He  was  educated  in  England  and  at  a  French 
military  school  until  sixteen  years  old,  when  he  went  to  Australia 
cattle  ranching.  He  then  became  a  cowboy  in  the  far  West  of 
this  country  and  finally  took  to  the  stage,  making  his  first  ap 
pearance  with  Miss  Elsie  De  Wolfe  in  "Thermidor"  in  1891.  Fol 
lowing  seasons  he  played  in  "Aristocracy,"  "Shenandoah,"  and 
"The  Fatal  Card."  He  next  supported  Miss  Olga  Nethersole,  then 
Herbert  Kelcey  and  Effie  Shannon  in  "A  Coat  of  Many  Colors" 
and  "The  Moth  and  the  Flame."  He  was  the  original  Dr.  Watson 
in  "Sherlock  Holmes"  with  William  Gillette,  and  for  two  seasons 
was  with  Miss  Julia  Marlowe.  In  1902  he  became  leading  man 
to  Miss  Ethel  Barrymore,  and  has  since  played  with  her  in  "Cap 
tain  Jinks,"  "Carrots,"  "Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire,"  "A  Doll's  House," 
"His  Excellency  the  Governor,"  etc.  In  1906  he  played  the  lead 
ing  role  in  Louis  K.  Anspacher's  "The  Embarrassment  of 
Riches,"  and  on  October  14,  1907,  was  seen  as  J.  Madison  Tate  in 
Charles  Klein's  "The  Stepsister"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New 
York.  He  also  appeared  that  year  with  Grace  Elliston  in  "Dr. 
Wake's  Patient,"  and  the  leading  role  in  "Rosmersholm"  with 
Mrs.  Fiske.  Mr.  McRae's  home  is  at  187  Woodland  avenue,  New 
Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

MacCURDY,  James  Kyrle : 

Actor,  was  born  in  California  and  began  his  stage  career  in 
stock  companies  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  In  1894  he  went  East,  and 
for  a  season  was  seen  in  the  principal  part  in  "A  Night  Off,"  the 
Augustin  Daly  comedy,  on  the  road.  He  then  became  a  member 


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of  the  Thanhauser  Stock  Company  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  and  re 
mained  with  that  organization  many  years.  He  then  produced 
his  own  play,  "The  Old  Clothes  Man,"  in  which  he  has  starred 
all  over  the  country.  Mr.  MacCurdy  married  Miss  Kate  Woods 
Fiske,  an  actress.  His  home  is  at  Brentwood,  N.  Y. 

MacDONALD,  Miss  Christie  (Mrs.  W.  W.  Jefferson) : 

Light  opera  prima  donna  and  soubrette,  was  born  in  Boston, 
and  when  in  her  'teens  played  several  small  parts  in  summer 
companies  in  that  city.  Her  first  professional  engagement  was 
with  Pauline  Hall  in  1892.  Francis  Wilson  then  offered  her  a 
place  in  his  company,  and  she  played  small  parts  in  "The  Lion 
Tamer"  and  "The  Merry  Monarch,"  also  being  understudy  to 
Lulu  Glaser.  In  the  season  of  1893  Miss  MacDonald  played  Marie 
throughout  the  run  of  "Erminie,"  and  occasionally  Javotte.  The 
season  of  1894-5  she  played  Bob,  the  valet,  in  "The  Devil's 
Deputy,"  and  Mrs.  Griggs  in  "The  Chieftain."  She  played  Shafra 
in  "The  Sphinx"  in  Boston  in  1896,  and  the  same  year  Lucinde 
in  "Half  a  King"  with  Francis  Wilson's  company,  after  which 
she  played  Woo-me  in  "The  Walking  Delegate"  in  Boston.  The 
seasons  of  1898  and  1899  Miss  MacDonald  was  seen  in  Sousa's 
opera,  "The  Birde-Elect."  She  became  a  star  in  February,  1900, 
at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  Boston,  playing  the  title  role  in  "The 
Princess  Chic,"  and  making  a  noteworthy  success.  Miss  Mac- 
Donald  played  this  part  two  seasons,  and  has  since  been  a  recog 
nized  prima  donna  of  light  opera.  The  season  of  1905-6  she 
sang  in  "Mexicana."  The  season  of  1906-7  she  was  seen  in  "The 
Belle  of  Mayfair,"  and  that  of  1907-8  as  Sally  Hook  in  "Miss 
Hook  of  Holland,"  produced  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New  York, 
December  11,  1907.  She  is  the  wife  of  William  Winter  Jeffer 
son,  fourth  son  of  the  late  Joseph  Jefferson. 

MacDOWELL,  Melbourne: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Little  Washington,  N.  J.,  and  ran  away 
to  sea  when  a  boy.  Tiring  of  a  sailor's  life,  he  obtained  a  job 
as  ticket  seller  at  the  theatre  in  Montreal  of  which  his  elder 
brother,  the  late  E.  A.  MacDowell,  was  manager.  He  made  his 
first  appearance  there  as  Charles  the  Wrestler  in  "As  You  Like 
It"  with  Adelaide  Neilson  as  Rosalind,  and  Eben  Plympton  as 
Orlando.  Being  an  athlete  and  not  much  of  an  actor,  he  spoiled 
the  scene  by  throwing  Plympton  instead  of  taking  a  fall  him 
self.  In  1877  Mr.  MacDowell  made  his  first  real  effort  as  an  actor 
in  the  part  of  the  Sheriff's  officer  in  "The  Road  to  Ruin"  at  the 
Boston  Museum.  At  that  time  he  used  the  stage  name  of  William 
Melbourne.  Returning  to  Montreal,  Mr.  MacDowell  played  lead- 


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ing  heavy  parts  for  two  seasons,  opening  as  the  Duke  de  Gon- 
zague  in  "The  Duke's  Motto."  Then  followed  three  years  with 
a  stock  company  in  Minneapolis  and  a  season  in  "The  Black  Dia 
mond  Engineer"  under  the  management  of  Charles  Forbes.  Mr. 
MacDowell  then  played  Aaron  Rodney  in  a  "Hazel  Kirke"  com 
pany,  and  Valentine  Hay  in  "Kerry  Gow"  with  Joseph  Murphy. 
The  season  of  1884-5  Mr.  MacDowell  played  Jean  de  Lerieux, 
and  then  was  engaged  to  create  the  part  of  Scarpia,  in  "La  Tosca" 
in  its  first  production  in  this  country  by  Fanny  Davenport  at 
the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York,  March  3,  1888.  The  following 
year  he  married  Miss  Davenport,  and  for  ten  years,  until  her 
death  in  1898,  he  played  leading  parts  with  her,  being  most  suc 
cessful  as  Loris  in  "Fedora"  and  Marc  Antony  in  "Cleopatra." 
He  then  became  a  joint  star  with  Blanche  Walsh.  More  recently 
he  has  starred  at  the  head  of  his  own  company.  The  season  of 
1906-7  he  supported  Wilton  Lackaye  in  "The  Law  and  the  Man." 

MACK,  Andrew: 

Comedian  and  singer,  was  born  in  Boston  July  25,  1863,  and 
was  educated  at  the  Eliot  Street  Public  School.  When  he  was 
thirteen  years  old  he  went  on  the  vaudeville  stage,  assuming  the 
name  of  Williams  and,  in  partnership  with  Martin  Hennessy, 
formed  the  team  of  "Williams  and  Hennessy,  the  Connecticut 
Cuckoos."  Mr.  Mack  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  regular 
stage  in  musical  farce  under  the  management  of  Monroe  &  Rice. 
He  made  his  first  real  success  in  a  singing  part  in  "Ivy  Leaf" 
with  William  H.  Powers.  His  first  appearance  as  a  star  was  in 
"Myles  Aroon"  under  the  management  of  W.  T.  Russ  &  Co.  in 
1895.  The  season  of  1896  he  was  seen  in  "Arrah-na-Pogue." 
Since  that  he  has  starred  at  the  head  of  his  own  companies  in 
Irish  musical  dramas,  going  to  Australia  the  season  of  1907-8. 

MACKAYE,  Percy  Wallace: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  New  York  City  March  16,  1875,  be 
ing  the  son  of  Steele  Mackaye,  the  actor  and  playwright.  He 
was  educated  at  Harvard  University,  from  which  institution  he 
was  graduated  in  1897,  and  at  the  University  of  Leipzig.  In 
1900  he  began  teaching  in  private  schools  in  New  York,  and  in 
1904  turned  his  attention  to  playwriting.  Besides  several  dramas 
in  blank  verse,  including  "Jeanne  D'Arc,"  produced  by  E.  H. 
Sothern  during  the  season  of  1906-7,  Mr.  Mackaye  is  the  author 
of  "The  Canterbury  Tales  of  Geoffrey  Chaucer,"  a  modern  ren 
dering  in  prose  of  the  prologue  and  ten  tales;  "Fenris,  the  Wolf," 
and  "The  Scarecrow."  His  "Sapho  and  Phaon,"  a  tragedy  in 
three  acts,  was  produced  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New  York,  Octo- 


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ber  21,  1907,  with  Bertha  Kalich  in  the  role  of  Sapho.  Mr.  Mac- 
kaye  married  Miss  Marion  Homer  Morse,  of  Cambridge,  Mass., 
October  8,  1898.  He  is  a  brother  of  Hazel  Kirke  Mackaye,  the 
actress.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Harvard  Club,  New  York. 

MAFLIN,  Alfred  W. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  London  August  31,  1840,  being  the  son  of 
Caroline  Maflin,  a  well-known  English  actress.  He  made  his 
first  appearance  when  only  six  years  old  at  the  Victoria  Theatre, 
London,  in  the  pantomime  of  "See-Saw,  Margery  Daw"  in  a 
child's  part.  When  ten  years  old  he  played  Walter  Arlington,  a 
page,  in  "The  Idiot  Witness,"  and  after  that  was  with  the  "Royal 
Living  Marionettes."  In  1854  he  became  second  comedian  at  the 
City  of  London  Theatre,  appearing  in  "The  Seven  Clerks."  He 
then  went  to  Kingston,  Ontario,  Canada,  and  for  two  years  worked 
in  a  dentist's  office.  Returning  to  England  and  the  stage,  he  in 
troduced  the  "Spade  Dance,"  a  novelty  act,  and  Tony  Denier 
brought  him  to  this  country.  His  first  engagement  here  was  in 
Denier's  pantomime,  "The  Three  Blind  Mice."  He  then  went 
with  the  Alice  Gates  Company  for  two  years,  playing  in  "La 
Fille  de  Madame  Angot"  and  in  the  original  production  in  this 
country  of  "Girofle-Girofla."  Joining  the  McCaull  Opera  Com 
pany,  he  was  seen  in  "The  Sorcerer,''  and  in  1882  was  in  the  first 
production  of  "The  Queen's  Lace  Handkerchief"  and  in  "Prince 
Methuselum."  He  played  Simon  in  the  original  production  of 
"Erminie"  more  than  1,200  times.  In  1894  he  was  with  "Lost 
Strayed  or  Stolen,"  and  the  following  year  with  "The  Brownies," 
In  1903  he  created  the  part  of  Deacon  Bagby  in  "Mrs.  Wiggs  of 
the  Cabbage  Patch"  under  the  management  of  Liebler  &  Co.,  and 
remained  with  that  organization  until  1908. 

MAGINN,  Miss  Bonnie: 

Actress  and  dancer,  was  born  in  Chicago  and  made  her  first 
appearance  there  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  under  the  manage 
ment  of  David  Henderson,  when  she  was  a  mere  child,  in  "The 
Mikado."  She  then  joined  Weber  and  Fields  in  New  York,  with 
whom  she  remained  nearly  six  years.  In  1903  she  played  in  "Mr. 
Bluebeard,"  under  Klaw  &  Erlanger,  and  then  joined  Frank 
Daniels  in  "The  Office  Boy."  In  1904  she  again  joined  Joe 
Weber's  company  and  remained  with  him  two  and  a  half  sea 
sons.  She  then  went  into  vaudeville. 

MANN",  Louis: 

Comedian,  was  born  in  New  York  April  20,  1865.  When 
eighteen  years  old  he  began  his  stage  career  by  barnstorming 


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through  New  England.  In  various  small  towns  he  played  such 
parts  as  Hamlet,  and  Armand  in  "Camille."  Later,  in  stock  com 
panies,  he  supported  such  stars  as  Salvini,  Lewis  Morrison  and 
J.  K.  Emmett,  playing  legitimate  parts.  His  first  pronounced 
success  was  as  Mr.  Utterson  in  "Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde"  with 
Daniel  Bandmann  in  1888.  He  played  the  leading  part  in  "In 
cog.,"  Clara  Lipman,  who  became  his  wife,  being  in  the  company. 
Other  subsequent  successes  were  in  "The  Strange  Adventures  of 
Miss  Brown,"  "The  Girl  from  Paris,"  and  "The  Telephone  Girl," 
in  which  his  Hans  Nix  attracted  much  attention.  Mr.  Mann's 
specialty  is  German  dialect,  but  he  played  a  Frenchman  in  "The 
Girl  in  the  Barracks,"  produced  in  Baltimore  on  October  9,  1899. 
The  following  season  Mr.  Mann  played  Franz  Hochstuhl  in  "All 
on  Account  of  Eliza,"  first  produced  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  August 
23,  1900.  For  the  last  six  years  Mr.  Mann  has  starred  jointly 
with  his  wife,  except  for  a  season  with  the  Joe  Weber  company. 
The  season  of  1905-6  Mr.  Mann  and  Miss  Lipman  played  "Julie 
Bon  Bon,"  a  musical  comedy,  written  by  the  latter.  The  season 
of  1907-8  he  went  into  vaudeville,  appearing  in  "All  on  Account 
of  Eliza,"  a  tabloid  form  of  the  musical  comedy  of  that  name. 
Mr.  Mann's  New  York  address  is  310  West  One  Hundred  and 
First  street. 

HANKERING,  Miss  Mary  (Mrs.  James  K.  Hackett) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  London,  England,  in  1876.  She  made 
her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  England  under  the  name  of 
Florence  Freund,  speaking  only  three  lines  in  the  play  "Hero 
and  Leander,"  in  which  Mrs.  James  Brown  Potter  and  Kyrle 
Bellew  were  joint  stars.  She  then  became  a  pupil  of  Herman 
Vezin,  the  well-known  American  actor,  playing  a  number  of 
Shakespearian  parts  throughout  the  British  provinces  when  she 
was  only  eighteen  years  old.  She  was  playing  in  a  comedy 
called  "The  Late  Mr.  Costello"  when  Daniel  Frohman  saw  her 
and  engaged  her  for  his  New  York  Lyceum  Theatre,  where  she 
made  her  first  appearance  November  24,  1896,  in  "The  Courtship 
of  Leonie"  the  season  of  1896-7.  The  following  May  she  became 
the  wife  of  James  K.  Hackett,  then  the  leading  man  of  the  com 
pany.  The  marriage  was  kept  a  secret  until  January,  1898. 
Miss  Mannering  made  personal  successes  at  the  Lyceum  in  "The 
First  Gentleman  of  Europe,"  and  "The  Mayflower,"  but  her  big 
gest  hits  there  were  as  Fay  Zuliani  in  "The  Princess  and  the 
Butterfly,"  and  as  Rose  Trelawney  in  "Trelawney  of  the  Wells." 
For  some  seasons  she  was  a  joint  star  with  her  husband;  then 
she  starred  at  the  head  of  her  own  company  under  his  manage 
ment.  The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  she  starred  in  Mrs.  Rida  John- 


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son  Young's  "Glorious  Betsy."     Miss  Mannering's  home  is  at  38 
East  Thirty-third  street,  New  York. 

MANSFIELD,  Richard: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Heligoland,  an  island  in  the  North  Sea, 
May  24,  1857.  Died  August  30,  1907.  For  full  biography  see 
"Who's  Who  on  the  Stage,"  1906  edition. 

MANTELL,  Robert  Bruce: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Irvine,  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  February  7, 
1854.  When  he  was  about  five  years  old  his  family  moved  to 
Belfast,  Ireland,  where  he  was  educated  and  where  he  developed 
a  taste  for  amateur  theatricals,  playing  Polonius  in  "Hamlet" 
when  he  was  sixteen  years  old.  He  was  apprenticed  to  a  wine 
merchant,  his  parents  objecting  to  his  ambition  for  a  stage  ca 
reer,  but  when  he  was  twenty  years  old  he  ran  away  from  home 
and,  going  to  the  United  States,  endeavored  to  obtain  an  en 
gagement  in  the  Boston  Museum  Company.  Failing,  he  returned 
to  England  after  staying  only  two  weeks  in  this  country,  and 
made  his  first  professional  appearance  as  the  Sergeant  in  "Arrah- 
na-Pogue"  at  Rochdale,  Lancashire,  in  October,  1876.  His  stage 
name  was  then  R.  Hudson.  He  next  played  Father  Dolan  in  "The 
Shaughraun."  George  Clarke,  afterward  so  long  identified  with 
Augustin  Daly,  was  the  star  in  these  plays.  As  a  member  of  a 
stock  company  Mr.  Mantell  supported  Charles  Calvert,  Barry  Sul 
livan,  Charles  Dillon  and  Samuel  Phelps,  who  took  him  to  Sad 
ler's  Wells  Theatre,  London,  where  Mr.  Mantell  obtained  a  solid 
grounding  in  Shakespeare  and  the  classics.  He  was  with  Phelps 
in  his  famous  revival  of  Macklin's  "The  Man  of  the  World."  Mr. 
Mantell  next  went  on  tour  with  Marie  De  Grey,  playing  Romeo, 
Benedick,  Orlando,  Orsino  and  Malvolio  in  "Twelfth  Night,"  and 
Bassanio.  He  played  Shylock  at  a  special  performance  to  the 
Portia  of  Miss  De  Grey.  In  November,  1878,  Mr.  Mantell  made 
his  first  appearance  in  America  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  playing  second 
parts  with  Madame  Modjeska.  After  a  season  he  returned  to 
Europe  in  support  of  the  American  comedian,  George  S.  Knight, 
in  his  production  there  of  "Otto,"  in  which  he  played  Dick 
Freely.  Then  he  went  on  tour  with  Miss  Wallis  in  a  round  of 
Shakespearian  roles,  including  Antony  in  "Antony  and  Cleo 
patra."  In  1883  Mr.  Mantell  made  his  first  appearance  in  New 
York  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  as  Sir  Clement  Huntingford  in 
"The  World."  The  same  season  he  made  his  first  pronounced 
success  in  the  United  States  as  Jack  Hearn,  originally  played  by 
Wilson  Barrett  in  London,  in  "The  Romany  Rye."  In  the  fall 
of  1883  Mr.  Mantell  joined  Fanny  Davenport  for  the  first  produc- 


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tion  in  America  of  "Fedora,"  by  Sardou.  Mr.  Mantell's  acting  as 
Loris  Ipanoff  was  one  of  those  theatrical  happenings  that  rever 
berate  for  years.  To  talk  of  Mantell  in  "Fedora"  to  those  with 
a  theatrical  memory  twenty  years  long  is  to  conjure  a  torrent 
of  enthusiastic  recollection.  Sardou  had  written  the  play  for 
Sarah  Bernhardt,  and  Miss  Davenport  was  regarded  as  the  ac 
tress  best  fitted  for  the  leading  role.  Mantell's  splendid  virility, 
his  sincerity  and  restraint,  his  sense  of  situation  and  his  superb 
physical  equipment  combined  to  make  his  performance  the  most 
effective  of  the  whole  cast.  Leaving  Miss  Davenport,  Mr.  Man- 
tell  created  the  part  of  Gilbert  Vaughan  in  "Called  There  and 
Back"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1884,  and  ap 
peared  in  "Dakolar"  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre.  In  1886  he  became 
a  star  for  the  first  time,  acting  in  a  play  by  John  W.  Keller 
called  "Tangled  Lives."  A  year  later  he  produced  "Monbars," 
gaining  plaudits  hardly  second  to  those  of  "Fedora."  In  1888 
he  revived  "The  Corsican  Brothers,"  and  produced  in  succession 
"The  Face  in  the  Moonlight,"  in  which  he  acted  a  so-called  "dual 
role";  "The  Louisianian,"  by  E.  M.  Alfriend;  "A  Lesson  in  Act 
ing,"  a  one-act  play,  by  John  Ernest  McCann;  "Parrhasius,"  a 
tragedy  of  Grecian  locale,  and  "A  Cavalier  of  France,"  both  by 
Espy  Williams,  of  New  Orleans;  "A  Gentleman  from  Gascony," 
"The  Light  of  Other  Days,"  and  "The  Dagger  and  the  Cross." 
He  also  revived  "The  Marble  Heart,"  and  "The  Lady  of  Lyons." 
He  took  up  Shakespeare  incidentally,  acting  both  Othello  and 
Hamlet  in  1893.  It  was  about  this  time  that  his  attitude  toward 
a  decision  of  one  of  the  New  York  State  courts,  arising  from  a 
suit  for  divorce  brought  by  his  wife,  Margaret  A.  Mantell,  re 
sulted  in  his  being  declared  in  contempt,  so  the  metropolis  was 
closed  to  him  until  he  should  be  purged — a  process  that  he  did 
not  embrace  until  1904.  On  "the  road"  he  turned  to  Shakespeare 
with  so  much  success  that  early  in  1904  he  went  to  New  York 
and  appeared  in  the  Princess  Theatre  as  Richard  III.  His  scenery 
and  costumes  were  shabby  and  inadequate  and  his  support  called 
up  the  vision  of  Bardolph,  Nym  and  Pistol,  but  he  won  unstinted 
praise.  In  the  course  of  this  engagement  Mr.  Mantell  and  Will 
iam  A.  Brady  joined  forces.  Mr.  Brady  took  his  new  star  to  New 
York  in  October,  1905,  for  what  was  to  have  been  a  month's  visit. 
Nine  weeks  passed  before  Mr.  Mantell  left  the  Garden  Theatre, 
where  he  played  revivals  of  "King  Lear"  and  "Macbeth."  He 
acted  a  repertoire  of  six  plays  in  Chicago,  Philadelphia,  Balti 
more,  Washington,  Montreal  and  Toronto  with  remarkable  suc 
cess.  "Julius  Caesar"  and  "The  Merchant  of  Venice"  have  been 
added  to  his  repertoire,  as  has  the  role  of  lago.  The  season  of 
1907-8  he  toured  in  Shakespearian  repertoire,  including  a  special 


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production  of  "King  John."    Mr.  Mantell's  leading  woman,  Marie 
Booth  Russell,  is  Mrs.  Mantell. 

MAPES,  Victor: 

Playwright  and  manager,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1870, 
being  the  son  of  Charles  V.  Mapes,  a  well-known  scientist,  and 
the  grandson  of  General  James  Jonas  Mapes,  who  was  in  com 
mand  of  the  United  States  forces  in  New  York  State  during  the 
War  of  1812.  Victor  Mapes  was  graduated  from  Columbia  Uni 
versity  in  1891  and  became,  successively,  a  reporter  on  the  New 
York  Sun,  a  student  at  Sorbonne  University,  at  Paris;  stage 
manager  of  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York;  dramatic  critic  of 
the  New  York  World,  stage  director  and  play  producer  at  Daly's 
and  the  Garrick  theatres,  New  York,  and  the  author  of  many 
plays,  one  of  which,  "La  Comtesse  de  Lisne,"  written  in  French, 
was  produced  at  the  Theatre  Mondain,  Paris.  In  1899  Mr.  Mapes's 
one-act  play,  "A  Flower  of  Yeddo,"  was  produced,  and  the  fol 
lowing  year  his  "The  Tory's  Guest"  was  seen.  In  1901  James  K. 
Hackett  produced  Mr.  Mapes's  play  "Don  Caesar's  Return,"  and 
in  1904  Charles  Richman  played  his  "Captain  Barrington."  In 
1907  Miss  Lena  Ashwell  produced  his  play  "The  Undercurrent." 
Mr.  Mapes  was  the  director  of  the  New  Theatre,  in  Chicago,  dur 
ing  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8.  He  is  a  member  of  the  University 
Club,  The  Players,  The  Lambs,  and  the  Columbia  Club  in  New 
York. 

MARBLE,  Miss  Mary  (Mrs.  John  W.  Dunne)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Chicago  March  28,  1876,  and  educated 
at  St.  Xavier's  Academy  there.  She  went  directly  from  the  con 
vent  to  the  stage,  making  her  first  appearance  in  Boone,  Iowa, 
in  a  play  called  "Inshavogue"  under  the  management  of  William 
Marble.  She  made  her  first  marked  success  as  Dimples,  with 
Eddie  Foy,  in  "Off  the  Earth,"  and  she  afterward  appeared  as 
the  Orphan  in  Hoyt's  "A  Milk  White  Flag,"  Jane  in  "Babes  in 
Toyland,"  and  Phyllis  in  "Wonderland."  The  season  of  1907-8 
Miss  Marble  starred  in  Joe  Weber's  production,  "Dream  City," 
under  the  management  of  her  husband,  John  W.  Dunne,  to  whom 
she  was  married  in  1898.  For  four  years  she  was  featured  with 
the  Bijou  Musical  Comedy  Company,  a  well-known  stock  organi 
zation,  touring  the  South.  Her  permanent  address  is  Hotel  York, 
New  York  City. 

MARLOWE,  Miss  Julia: 

Actress,  was  born  Sarah  Frances  Frost  at  Caldbeck,  England, 
in  November,  1865.  In  1875  the  family  came  to  this  country, 


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taking  up  their  abode  in  Cincinnati.  Sarah  Frost  was  still  a  girl 
in  short  dresses  when  she  first  gave  evidence  of  the  histrionic 
attainments  which  later,  allied  with  indomitable  pluck  and  per 
severance,  were  to  win  her  fame  and  fortune.  She  was  still  at 
tending  the  public  schools  of  Cincinnati  when  she  essayed  her 
first  stage  appearance  in  an  amateur  juvenile  performance,  and 
she  was  only  twelve  years  old  when  she  appeared  with  a  "Pina 
fore"  company  which  made  a  tour  of  the  West  and  South.  For 
several  years  she  continued  playing  such  characters  as  Josephine 
in  "Pinafore,"  Suzanne  in  "The  Chimes  of  Normandy,"  and  a 
page  in  "The  Little  Duke."  She  also  played  juvenile  parts  in 
"Rip  Van  Winkle."  When  she  was  sixteen  years  old  her  talent 
attracted  the  attention  of  Ada  Dow,  who  had  achieved  promi 
nence  on  the  English  stage.  The  woman  saw  in  the  girl  raw 
material  which  gave  promise  of  a  brilliant  future,  and  she  un 
dertook  to  develop  it.  At  this  time  her  stage  name  was  Fannie 
Brough.  The  belief  of  Ada  Dow  that  a  larger  and  more  im 
portant  field  awaited  her  pupil  found  an  echo  in  the  latter's  heart 
and  served  to  fire  the  ambitions  it  had  long  contained.  "I'm 
going  to  climb,"  little  Fannie  Brough  once  said  to  her  father, 
and  when  she  was  seventeen  the  climbing  began.  She  and  Ada 
Dow  lived  at  the  latter's  home  in  Bayonne,  N.  J.,  and  there  the 
elder  woman  gave  the  younger  all  the  benefit  of  her  training  and 
experience.  The  younger  entered  into  the  work  with  all  the- 
ardor  of  one  whose  ambitions  knew  no  bounds.  For  three  years 
she  read  Shakespeare  from  8  a.  m.  until  noon,  and  impersonated 
characters  in  the  great  poet's  plays  in  the  afternoon,  finding 
time  as  well  to  practise  with  foils  and  swing  Indian  clubs  and 
dumbbells.  During  this  time  she  became  acquainted  with  Colonel 
Bob  Ingersoll.  She  made  her  real  theatrical  debut  in  the  East, 
and  her  first  in  any  important  role,  when  she  appeared  as  Par- 
thenia  in  a  performance  of  "Ingomar"  at  New  London,  Conn.,  in 
1887,  under  the  management  of  Colonel  R.  E.  J.  Miles.  In  Octo 
ber  of  the  same  year  she  made  her  first  New  York  appearance  in 
a  trial  matinee  at  the  Bijou  Theatre,  where  she  again  imper 
sonated  Parthenia.  She  was  then  engaged  to  play  Shakespearian 
roles  at  the  Star  Theatre.  There  for  the  first  time  she  appeared 
as  Juliet.  The  following  year  Ariel  Barney  became  her  manager, 
and  she  made  a  tour  of  the  country  with  Shakespearian  plays. 
On  May  28,  1894,  she  was  married  in  Philadelphia  to  Robert 
Taber,  who  had  been  her  leading  man  at  her  first  appearance  in 
"Romeo  and  Juliet"  in  1888.  They  appeared  as  joint  stars  for  a 
season  in  Shakespearian  plays.  Disagreement  finally  ended  in  a 
separation.  In  1900  she  obtained  a  divorce,  and  on  March  7, 
1904,  Taber  died  in  the  Adirondacks  from  pleurisy.  Later  plays 


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which  have  served  to  add  to  the  lustre  of  Julia  Marlowe  have 
been  "Colinette,"  "Bonnie  Prince  Charlie,"  "When  Knighthood 
Was  in  Flower,"  "Barbara  Frietchie,"  and  "The  Cavalier."  Par- 
thenia  in  "Ingomar,"  Rosalind  in  "As  You  Like  It,"  Juliet,  and 
Viola  in  "Twelfth  Night,"  are  the  roles  in  which  she  has  at 
tained  the  greatest  success.  In  the  season  of  1905-6  she  and 
E.  H.  Sothern  were  joint  stars  in  Shakespearian  roles.  The  fol 
lowing  season  they  appeared  together  in  London,  England.  The 
season  of  1907-8  Miss  Marlowe  starred  alone  in  "Gloria." 

MARS,  Leo : 

Pantomimist  and  singer,  is  the  son  of  a  Parisian  stock 
broker.  He  engaged  in  that  business  himself  for  a  time,  but 
decided  to  go  on  the  stage,  and  began  his  career  in  pantomime 
at  the  Drury  Lane  Theatre,  London,  in  1896.  During  engage 
ments  at  the  Matineee,  Empire  and  Palace  theatres  in  London 
he  was  heard  by  King  Edward  VII,  who  was  so  pleased  with  the 
singer's  French  chansons  that  he  engaged  him  to  entertain  the 
royal  family  on  several  occasions.  After  several  seasons  of 
drawing-room  entertaining  he  was  engaged  in  1901  by  George 
Edwardes  for  his  production  of  "Three  Little  Maids"  at  the 
Prince  of  Wales's  Theatre.  His  work  in  "Lady  Madcap"  at 
tracting  the  attention  of  Charles  B.  Dillingham  on  one  of  his 
London  trips,  he  engaged  Mr.  Mars  to  appear  in  the  United 
States.  His  first  appearance  in  the  United  States  was  with 
Fritzi  Scheff  in  Mr.  Dillingham's  "Mile.  Modiste"  company. 

MARTINOT,  Miss  Sadie  (Mrs.  Louis  F.  Nethersole) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1862,  being  christened 
Sarah.  Her  father  was  William  Alexander  Martinet.  At  the  age 
of  fourteen,  while  she  was  a  pupil  in  a  convent  school,  she  ob 
tained  an  engagement  at  the  old  Eagle  Theatre,  New  York;  Josh 
Hart,  the  manager,  giving  her  five  dollars  a  week  as  an  "extra 
lady."  Thus  she  made  her  debut  in  September,  1876.  A  week 
afterward  the  star,  Maude  Branscombe,  falling  ill,  Miss  Martinet 
took  her  part.  At  this  theatre  she  played  nine  weeks  of  comic 
opera  with  Aimee,  the  French  prima  donna.  Her  next  role  was 
that  of  Cupid  with  Ada  Richmond  in  the  burlesque  "Chow 
Chow,"  in  which  she  gave  imitations  of  Aimee.  After  playing 
several  parts  in  Boston  theatres,  Miss  Martinot  became  a  mem 
ber  of  the  Boston  Museum  Stock  Company.  Her  next  engage 
ment  was  at  the  Comedy  Theatre,  London,  where  she  created  the 
rdle  of  Katrina  in  the  original  production  of  Planquette's  "Rip 
Van  Winkle."  She  returned  to  New  York  to  open  the  old  Star 
Theatre,  then  the  Germania,  with  the  late  Fred  Leslie  in  "Vice 


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Versa."  They  followed  this  by  playing  Dion  Boucicault's  reper 
toire  on  tour.  John  Stetson  then  engaged  Miss  Martinet  for  his 
"Confusion"  company,  for  which  "Distinguished  Foreigners"  was 
a  curtain  raiser.  Miss  Martinet  imitated  Ellen  Terry  in  this. 
Her  next  role  was  the  leading  one  in  "Zelna"  at  the  Union  Square 
Theatre,  New  York.  She  followed  this  with  comic  opera,  Ru 
dolph  Aronson  engaging  her  as  prima  donna  for  the  Casino,  New 
York.  She  sang  "Nanon"  for  over  one  hundred  nights.  Then, 
her  health  giving  way,  she  retired  for  three  years.  On  her  re 
turn  she  starred  at  Amberg's  German  Theatre,  New  York,  in 
"The  Mascot"  in  German.  Succeeding  roles  were  Dora  in  Rose 
Coghlan's  "Diplomacy"  company,  Rosa  Leigh  in  "Rosedale,"  and 
Suzette  in  "The  Voyage  of  Suzette."  In  1897  she  played  in  "A 
Stranger  in  New  York";  during  successive  seasons  was  seen  in 
"The  Turtle,"  "The  Marriage  Game,"  "The  Second  Mrs.  Tan- 
queray,"  and  "His  Excellency  the  Governor"  on  tour.  In  190-4 
she  played  "Winning  a  Widow"  in  vaudeville,  and  the  following 
year  was  seen  in  "Mary  and  John."  The  season  of  1906-7  she 
toured  in  "Mrs.  Templeton's  Telegram." 

MASON,  John: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Orange,  N.  J.,  in  1857.  He  entered  Co 
lumbia  College  in  1876,  but  was  never  graduated,  preferring  to 
adopt  a  stage  career.  Louise  Leighton,  with  whom  he  had  ap 
peared  in  amateur  theatricals,  was  about  to  make  her  profes 
sional  appearance  at  Bauvard's  (now  Daly's)  Broadway  Theatre, 
and  Mason  was  engaged  to  play  five  small  parts  for  eight  dollars 
a  week.  When  treasury  day  came  Mason  got  only  a  "V,"  and  his 
mother  found  no  difficulty  in  persuading  him  to  go  to  Italy  to 
have  his  voice  cultivated.  After  a  year  abroad  he  returned,  ill 
1878,  and  joined  the  Maggie  Mitchell  company  at  the  Standard 
Theatre,  New  York,  for  small  singing  parts.  He  then  went  to  the 
Walnut  Street  Theatre,  Philadelphia,  to  do  similar  work  in  a 
stock  company.  In  1879  Mr.  Mason  went  to  the  Boston  Museum, 
making  his  first  appearance  there  as  Careless  in  "The  School  for 
Scandal,"  and  remained  with  the  company  four  years.  After  a 
season  with  Robert  Mantell  and  with  Nat  C.  Goodwin,  Mr.  Mason 
went  back  to  the  Boston  Museum  as  a  stock  star  with  Annie 
Clarke  in  a  revival  of  the  old  comedies.  In  1890,  after  playing 
the  hero  in  "The  English  Rose,"  Mr.  Mason  went  to  England 
where,  with  George  Alexander,  he  played  Simeon  Strong  in  "The 
Idler"  with  great  success.  Returning  to  America,  Mr.  Mason 
starred  in  "If  I  Were  You,"  and  then  produced  "Friend  Fritz," 
adapted  for  the  stage  by  Stanislaus  Stange,  with  music  by  Julian 
Edwards,  at  Herrmann's  Theatre,  New  York,  which  piece  he 


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played  for  several  seasons.  Mr.  Mason  also  created  the  part  of 
the  hero  in  Brady's  production  of  "The  Cotton  King/'  and  played 
for  many  seasons  in  vaudeville  sketches.  The  fall  of  1907  Mr. 
Mason  supported  Miss  Virginia  Harned  in  "Anna  Karenina,"  and 
the  balance  of  the  season  starred  in  "The  Witching  Hour,"  by 
Augustus  Thomas,  produced  at  Hackett's  Theatre,  New  York, 
November  18,  1907. 

MATTHISON,  Miss  Edith  Wynne  (Mrs.  Charles  Rann  Ken 
nedy)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Birmingham,  England,  being  the  daugh 
ter  of  Kate  Matthison,  a  concert  singer.  She  was  educated  at 
King  Edward's  Grammar  School,  Birmingham,  and  acted  as  an 
amateur  in  Shakespearian  and  other  roles  in  Birmingham  when 
she  was  ten  years  old.  She  adopted  the  stage  as  a  profession 
and  made  her  first  appearance  in  1896  with  Minnie  Palmer  in 
the  chorus  of  "The  School  Girl."  A  year  later  she  was  engaged 
to  play  Mercy  Merrick  in  "The  New  Magdalen."  She  joined  Ben 
Greet  in  1897,  playing  Miladi  in  "The  Three  Musketeers."  Since 
then  she  has  appeared  in  twenty-three  Shakespearian  parts,  in 
cluding  Juliet,  Rosalind,  Ophelia,  Portia,  Beatrice,  Viola,  Queen 
Katherine  and  Oberon.  She  has  also  played  in  old  English  com 
edy  such  parts  as  Lady  Teazle,  Kate  Hardcastle  and  Peg  Woffing- 
ton.  She  made  a  marked  success  by  her  performance  in  "Every 
man"  at  the  Court  Theatre,  London,  which  was  followed  by  a 
long  season  in  New  York  and  an  American  tour  in  the  samd 
play.  In  1906  she  created  the  chief  role  in  an  adaptation  from 
Euripides,  in  London,  called  "The  Electra."  She  appeared  as 
Greeta  in  "The  Bondman"  in  January,  1907,  at  the  Adelphi  Thea 
tre,  London.  Her  address  is  85  Overstrand  Mansions,  Battersea 
Park,  S.  W. 

MAY,  Miss  Edna  (Mrs.  Oscar  Lewisohn)  : 

Actress  and  light  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  in  Syracuse, 
N.  Y.,  in  1875.  Her  maiden  name  was  Edna  May  Petty,  being  the 
daughter  of  E.  C.  Petty,  a  letter  carrier.  When  she  was  only 
seven  years  old  she  appeared  in  a  children's  "Pinafore"  company 
in  her  native  city.  When  she  was  sixteen  she  went  to  New  York 
to  study  for  the  stage,  and  there  was  married  to  Frederick  Titus, 
a  professional  bicycle  rider.  This  marriage  was  dissolved  in 
1904.  Miss  May  made  her  first  appearance  in  New  York  as  Glair- 
ette,  a  small  part  in  the  operetta  "Santa  Maria"  at  Hammer- 
stein's  vaudeville  theatre.  She  then  went  with  a  company  play 
ing  Hoyt's  farce,  "A  Contented  Woman."  Joining  the  chorus  at 
the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York,  Miss  May  was  almost  immediately 


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selected  by  George  W.  Lederer  to  assume  the  part  of  Violet  Gray 
in  his  production  of  "The  Belle  of  New  York,"  in  which  she  made 
a  remarkable  success  and  practically  became  a  star  in  a  night.. 
After  a  long  run  in  New  York  the  company  went  to  the  Shaftes- 
bury  Theatre,  London,  where  the  piece  ran  five  hundred  nights, 
and  where  Miss  May  made  an  even  greater  success  than  in  this 
country.  Since  then  Miss  May  has  played  successive  seasons  ill 
London  and  New  York,  appearing  in  "The  Casino  Girl,"  "An 
American  Beauty,"  "Three  Little  Maids,"  "The  School  Girl," 
"The  Catch  of  the  Season"  and  similar  musical  comedies,  being 
featured  as  a  star.  After  a  revival  of  "The  Belle  of  New  York" 
she  created  the  title  role  in  "Nellie  Neil"  at  the  Aldwych  Thea 
tre,  London,  January  10,  1907,  after  which  she  retired  from  the 
stage.  Miss  May  on  June  4,  1907,  married  Oscar  Lewisohn,  a 
member  of  a  well-known  wealthy  New  York  family,  in  London, 
where  they  now  reside. 

MAY,  Miss  Olive  (Mrs.  John  W.  Albaugh,  Jr.) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.  Her  father,  Gordon  A. 
May,  entered  the  Federal  Army  during  the  Civil  War  as  Lieuten 
ant  of  the  Thirteenth  Illinois  Cavalry  and  rose  rapidly  to  the 
rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonelcy,  serving  in  the  Southwestern  Cam 
paign.  Miss  May  received  her  training  for  the  stage  at  the  Con-, 
servatory  in  Chicago.  After  a  few  seasons  on  the  road  with 
Stuart  Robson,  and  Milliard  and  Arthur,  she  attracted  the  atten 
tion  of  Charles  Frohman  who  engaged  her  for  the  part  of  Su 
zanne  in  "The  Butterflies."  In  this  she  made  her  first  marked 
success.  In  1899  Miss  May  was  seen  as  Bonita  in  "Arizona,"  the 
part  originated  by  Eleanor  Robson.  Her  last  appearance  was 
with  "The  Love  Route"  in  its  New  York  production.  In  July, 
1904,  she  went  into  vaudeville  with  John  W.  Albaugh,  Jr.,  mak 
ing  a  tour  of  the  country  in  Grant  Stewart's  sketch,  "The  In 
spector  from  Kansas."  The  season  of  1907-8  she  appeared  in 
Channing  Pollock's  "The  Secret  Orchard."  Miss  May  was  mar 
ried  in  1894  to  Henry  Guy  Carleton,  the  playwright,  from  whom 
she  obtained  a  divorce  three  years  later.  On  July  9,  1907,  she 
married  Mr.  Albaugh  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 

MAYO,  Miss  Margaret  (Mrs.  Edgar  Selwyn) : 

Actress  and  playwright,  was  born  on  an  Illinois  farm  in 
November,  1882.  She  was  educated  at  the  Convent  of  the  Sacred 
Heart,  Salem,  Ore.,  and  at  the  Girl's  College,  Fox  Lake,  Wis. 
She  also  attended  Stanford  University,  Palo  Alto,  Cal.,  for  one 
year.  She  made  her  first  appearance  at  the  Garrick  Theatre. 
New  York,  playing  a  small  part  in  "Thoroughbred"  under  the 


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management  of  Charles  Prohman.  She  then  played  the  ingenue 
part  in  "Charley's  Aunt"  on  the  road,  followed  by  Caroline  Mitt- 
ford  in  "Secret  Service,"  in  which  she  scored  her  first  success. 
Her  next  part  was  Susan  in  "Because  She  Loved  Him  So"  at  the 
Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  and  then  followed  a  sum 
mer  engagement  as  ingenue  with  the  Columbia  Stock  Company 
at  Washington,  D.  C.  Joining  the  Kirke  La  Shelle  forces,  she 
played  Lena  in  "Arizona"  on  the  road  and  then  went  to  Lon 
don,  England,  playing  Bonita  in  the  same  piece  there  with 
great  success.  Her  last  appearance  was  as  Polly  in  "Pretty 
Peggy"  with  Miss  Grace  George  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre, 
New  York,  after  which  she  retired  from  the  stage,  to  devote  her 
time  to  playwriting.  Her  first  production  was  a  dramatization 
of  Ouida's  "Under  Two  Flags."  She  has  since  adapted  "The 
Jungle,"  "The  Marriage  of  William  Ashe,"  and  Sardou's  "Divor- 
gons,"  her  version  being  played  with  success  here  and  in  Eng 
land  by  Miss  Grace  George.  Her  original  plays  include  "The 
Winding  Way,"  "The  Austrian  Dancer,"  "Nip  and  Tuck,"  and 
"Polly  of  the  Circus."  Miss  Mayo  was  married  to  Edgar  Selwyn, 
actor  and  play  broker,  at  Niagara  Falls,  May  16,  1901.  Her  ad 
dress  is  care  of  Selwyn  &  Co.,  1402  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

MELBA,  Madame  (Mrs.  Nellie  Armstrong) : 

Grand  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  in  Melbourne,  Australia, 
in  1863,  being  the  daughter  of  David  Mitchell  Porter,  a  wealthy 
merchant.  Her  mother  was  of  Spanish  descent.  When  she  was 
seventeen  years  old  she  was  married  to  Captain  Charles  Nesbit 
Frederick  Armstrong,  son  of  Sir  Andrew  Armstrong,  Bart.  In 
1887  she  accompanied  her  father,  who  was  a  commissioner  to 
the  Paris  Exposition,  to  France  and  studied  singing  under  Ma 
dame  Marchesi.  She  made  her  first  appearance  at  the  Theatre 
de  la  Monnaie,  Brussels,  as  Gilda  in  "Rigoletto."  She  made  her 
first  appearance  in  England  at  Covent  Garden  in  "Lucia  di 
Lammermoor"  in  1888,  since  which  she  has  been  regarded  as 
one  of  the  greatest  of  prima  donnas,  having  sung  in  all  the 
great  capitals  and  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New  York, 
where  she  first  appeared  under  the  Abbey,  Schoeffel  &  Grau 
management.  In  April,  1900,  Captain  Armstrong  received  a  di 
vorce  in  Galveston,  Tex.,  with  the  custody  of  their  one  child, 
a  boy,  then  about  sixteen  years  old. 

MELLISH,  Fuller  (Leclerq) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  England  January  3,  1865,  being  a  son 
of  the  late  Rose  Leclerq,  a  well-known  English  actress  and  a 
member  of  a  celebrated  family  of  actors.  He  made  his  first  ap- 


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pearance  at  the  Park  Theatre,  London,  April  25,  1881,  and  for 
years  was  a  member  of  his  mother's  company.  In  1884  he 
played  Curio  in  "Twelfth  Night,"  and  the  Due  d'Orleans  in 
"Richelieu"  with  the  late  Sir  Henry  Irving,  with  whom  he  first 
came  to  this  country,  playing  small  parts  in  repertoire.  Return 
ing  to  England,  he  played  many  engagements,  being  seen  at  the 
Lyceum  with  Miss  Mary  Anderson  in  "A  Winter's  Tale."  In 
1888  he  rejoined  Irving's  company,  remaining  with  it  for  five 
years.  In  1902  he  returned  to  America,  and  the  following  year 
was  seen  in  "Ulysses."  In  1904  he  was  in  "The  Dictator,"  and 
also  appeared  in  support  of  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell  in  "The  Sor 
ceress."  In  1905  he  was  with  the  late  Richard  Mansfield,  and 
during  1906  he  supported  Miss  Viola  Allen,  playing  Pisanio  in 
"Cymbeline,"  Sir  Toby  Belch  in  "Twelfth  Night,"  and  Touch 
stone  in  "As  You  Like  It."  The  season  of  1906-7  he  played 
Canon  Donsey  in  "Mrs.  Dane's  Defence"  with  Miss  Lena  Ash- 
well,  and  in  the  fall  of  1907  was  seen  in  a  sketch  in  vaudeville. 
Later  he  appeared  in  the  role  of  the  Rector  in  Mrs.  Fiske's  pro 
duction  of  Ibsen's  "Rosmersholm." 

MELTZER,  Charles  Henry : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  London,  England,  of  naturalized 
Russian  parents.  When  a  boy  he  was  sent  to  Paris,  where  he 
completed  his  education  and  began  life  as  a  journalist,  even 
tually  becoming  Paris  representative  of  the  Chicago  Tribune, 
and  later  of  the  New  York  Herald,  for  which  he  traveled  exten 
sively  in  Europe  and  in  Egypt.  Mr.  Meltzer  came  to  New  York 
in  1888  under  contract  to  take  charge  of  the  dramatic  and  mu 
sical  departments  of  the  New  York  Herald.  For  four  seasons  he 
was  dramatic  critic  of  that  paper,  and  during  the  seasons  of, 
1893-6  he  wrote  dramatic  reviews  for  the  New  York  World.  He; 
also  acted  as  New  York  correspondent  of  the  London  Daily* 
Chronicle.  Mr.  Meltzer's  contributions  to  dramatic  literature^ 
have  been  partly  original  plays  and  partly  adaptations.  His 
first  play,  "The  Story  of  Rodion,  the  Student,"  a  free  dramatiza* 
tion  of  Dostoiewsky's  novel,  "Crime  and  Punishment,"  was  pror- 
duced  by  Mr.  Richard  Mansfield.  Later  he  devised  "Salome"  (a* 
tragic  pantomime  with  ballet)  in  collaboration  with  Armandi 
Silvestre,  music  by  Gabriel  Pierne,  which  was  produced  by  Loie 
Fuller  in  Paris;  "Manon  Lescaut,"  a  comedy-drama  founded 
upon  the  romance  of  Prevost,  and  "The  First  Duchess  of  Marl- 
borough,"  an  original  comedy  of  manners,  suggested  by  the 
Duchess's  memoirs.  His  adaptations  include  the  English  ver 
sions  of  Hauptmann's  "Hannele"  and  "Die  Versunkene  Glocke" 
("The  Sunken  Bell"),  which  was  produced  by  Mr.  E.  H.  Sotlierja 


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in  this  country  and  more  recently  in  London;  Daudet's  "L'Ar- 
lesienne,"  Sardou  and  Moreau's  "Madame  Sans  Gene,"  Decour- 
celle's  "Le  Collier  de  la  Reine"  and  "Plus  que  Reine"  (in  col 
laboration  with  Charles  Frederic  Nirdlinger).  His  comedy  "His 
Honor  the  Mayor"  (produced  by  William  H.  Crane)  was  writ 
ten  with  the  collaboration  of  A.  E.  Lancaster.  From  1903  to  1907 
Mr.  Meltzer  acted  as  secretary  and  general  assistant  to  Mr.  Hein- 
rich  Conried,  manager  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New 
York.  He  then  became  musical  critic  of  the  New  York  Ameri 
can.  His  home  is  at  476  Central  Park  West,  New  York. 

MELVILLE,  Miss  Rose: 

Actress,  was  born  in  1873  at  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  being  the 
daughter  of  a  Baptist  minister.  She  attended  the  convent  school 
of  St.  Mary  of  the  Woods  and  later  went  to  Franklin  College, 
Indiana.  At  this  time  Miss  Melville's  sisters,  Ida  and  Pearl, 
were  conducting  the  Melville  Sisters'  Stock  Company  in  the 
Middle  West.  During  the  vacation  season  of  1889  Miss  Melville 
joined  the  company,  then  playing  in  Ohio.  It  was  not  her  in 
tention  to  become  an  actress,  her  stay  with  the  company  being 
entirely  social,  but  an  extra  person  was  needed,  and  so  the 
younger  of  the  sisters  was  given  a  chance  to  see  what  she  could 
do.  Thus  the  future  Sis  Hopkins  made  her  debut  at  Zanesville, 
Ohio,  as  Arthur  Sidney  in  "The  Queen's  Evidence."  Miss  Rose 
had  been  carefully  coached  by  her  sister  Pearl,  and  so  well  did 
she  equip  herself  at  her  first  effort  that  all  idea  of  returning 
to  school  was  given  up.  During  the  three  years  following  Miss 
Melville  became  proficient  in  sixteen  roles.  Some  of  the  parts 
she  played  at  that  time  were  Topsy  in  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin," 
Louise  in  "The  Two  Orphans,"  Fanchon  in  "Fanchon  the 
Cricket,"  and  Ned  in  "The  Black  Flag."  In  1891  the  Melville 
sisters  separated,  Miss  Pearl  Melville  forming  the  Melville  Stock 
Company,  and  Miss  Rose  and  her  sister  Ida  combined  under 
the  title  of  the  Rose  and  Ida  Melville  Stock  Company.  This 
latter  company  was  very  successful;  but  after  three  years  they 
decided  to  try  New  York.  One  of  the  plays  presented  by  Miss 
Rose  and  her  sister  was  called  "Zeb,"  being  from  the  pen  of 
Samuel  Young,  the  husband  of  Ida  Melville.  In  the  last  act  of 
this  play  there  was  introduced  a  gawky  country  girl,  called  Sis 
Hopkins,  and  impersonated  by  Rose  Melville.  This  character 
in  Miss  Melville's  hands  was  extraordinarily  popular,  and  Miss 
Ida  Melville  said  that  as  two  Topsies  had  proved  successful  in 
"Uncle  Tom,"  why  not  two  Sis  Hopkinses?  At  the  close  of 
the  season  of  1894  Rose  and  Ida  Melville  journeyed  to  New 
York,  seeking  an  engagement.  They  called  upon  Edward  E. 


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Rice,  who  was  then  presenting  "Little  Christopher"  at  the  Gar 
den  Theatre.  The  Melville  sisters  informed  Mr.  Rice  that  they 
had  an  "act"  which  they  felt  very  sure  would  prove  an  excel 
lent  extra  attraction  for  his  extravaganza.  The  girls  were 
given  a  chance  to  shown  what  they  could  do.  A  special  per 
formance  was  given  one  afternoon,  and  the  Melville  sisters  were 
at  once  engaged  at  a  salary  of  $150  a  week.  The  act  was  billed 
as  "Two  Little  Jays  from  Indiana,"  and  the  Melvilles  made  an 
astonishing  hit.  Rose  Melville  did  all  the  singing  and  speak 
ing,  while  her  sister  Ida  simply  pantomimed  about  the  stage. 
Soon  the  town  was  talking  of  the  Melville  sisters.  After  a  few 
weeks  Ida  Melville  retired,  leaving  the  field  to  her  sister  Rose, 
who  changed  the  name  of  the  act  to  Sis  Hopkins.  During  the 
two  years  following  the  engagement  in  New  York,  Miss  Melville 
was  featured  as  Dolly  Bond  in  Glen  McDonough's  musical  com 
edy,  "The  Prodigal  Father."  In  this  piece  Sis  Hopkins  was  in 
troduced.  In  1898,  when  Matthews  and  Bulger  were  seen  in 
"The  Sad  Sea  Waves"  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York, 
Miss  Melville  introduced  Sis  Hopkins  as  a  special  feature.  After 
the  better  part  of  a  season  in  this  play,  Miss  Melville  appeared 
for  eleven  weeks  in  vaudeville  in  a  sketch  by  Carroll  Flemming 
called  "Sis  Hopkins's  Visit"  So  successful  was  this  sketch  that 
Miss  Melville  decided  that  a  play,  with  Sis  Hopkins  as  the  cen 
tral  figure,  would  prove  a  success.  Mr.  Flemming  was  commis 
sioned  to  write  a  play,  which  was  called  "Sis  Hopkins,"  and  in 
this  play  Miss  Melville  has  starred  continuously  for  eight  years. 
Miss  Melville's  home  is  at  South  Bend,  Ind. 

MILLER,  Ashley : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Cincinnati  August  11,  1877,  and  was  edu 
cated  in  Detroit,  Mich.  He  was  occupied  in  commercial  pursuits, 
until  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  as  Francois  in  "Riche 
lieu"  with  Walker  Whiteside  in  September,  1904.  He  afterward 
played  Guildenstern,  Lorenzo,  Montano  and  other  juvenile  parts 
with  Mr.  Whiteside.  With  Otis  Skinner  he  played  Gaston  in 
"Prince  Otto"  and  Benvolio  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet,"  and  with 
Louis  James  and  Katherine  Kidder  he  appeared  as  Oberon  in 
"A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream,"  Catesby  in  "Richard  III,"  etc. 
He  has  also  played  juvenile  parts  in  stock  companies  in  Boston. 
Chicago,  Philadelphia  and  New  York.  He  played  Lord  Chalmers- 
in  "My  Lady  Peggy  Goes  to  Town"  at  Daly's  Theatre,  and  Car 
ver  Stone  in  "The  Parisian  Model"  at  the  Broadway  Theatre, 
New  York,  both  singing  parts.  Mr.  Miller  is  the  author  of  the- 
one-act  plays,  "All's  Fair  in  Love,"  and  "Caught"  also  of  "His 
Friend  the  Liar,"  a  three-act  comedy,  produced  in  Chicago.  He 


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is  a  contributor  to  New  Thought,  Unity  and  other  psychological 
magazines,  and  organized  a  dramatic  company  to  give  plays  and 
dramatic  entertainments  in  the  settlement  houses  and  educa 
tional  institutions  of  New  York  City.  Mr.  Miller  married  Miss 
Ethel  Browning,  an  actress.  His  home  is  at  27  Manhattan  ave 
nue,  New  York  City. 

MILLER,  Henry: 

Actor,  was  born  in  London,  England,  in  1859,  but  was  reared 
and  educated  in  Toronto,  Canada,  where,  when  he  was  a  youth, 
he  first  was  led  to  take  up  a  stage  career  by  reading  an  article 
on  the  early  struggles  of  Henry  Irving.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he 
began  to  study  elocution,  and  for  the  next  four  years  he  devoted 
himself  to  acquiring  all  the  stage  training  he  could  get.  He 
made  his  first  stage  appearance  just  before  he  was  nineteen 
in  a  stock  company  performance  of  "Macbeth"  at  a  Toronto 
theatre.  Before  the  end  of  the  season  he  was  playing  the  lead 
ing  juvenile  roles  in  classic  drama  with  this  company.  In  1878 
he  joined  Modjeska's  company,  playing,  as  did  Robert  Manteil 
at  that  time  in  the  same  company,  general  utility  roles.  His 
next  engagement  was  with  Adelaide  Neilson,  and  in  two  seasons 
with  her  company  he  played,  among  other  roles,  those  of  Peter 
in  "Measure  for  Measure,"  Paris  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet,"  Arvi- 
ragus  in  "Cymbeline,"  and  Oliver  in  "As  You  Like  It."  After 
a  brief  engagement  with  Ada  Cavendish  he  was  engaged  by 
Augustin  Daly  and  made  his  first  appearance  with  that  manager 
in  "Odette"  when  that  play  was  first  produced  at  Daly's  Thea 
tre  on  February  6,  1882.  Ada  Rehan,  James  Lewis  and  John 
Drew  were  in  the  same  cast.  He  left  Mr.  Daly  to  join  A.  M. 
Palmer's  forces  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  where  he  ap 
peared  as  Herbert  in  "Young  Mrs.  Winthrop."  After  being  lead 
ing  man  for  Minne  Maddern  for  a  time  and  playing  Eric  Thorn- 
dike  with  Agnes  Booth  Schoeffel  in  a  special  production  of  Ar 
thur  W.  Pinero's  "The  Squire,"  Mr.  Miller  was  engaged  by 
Daniel  Frohman  as  leading  juvenile  of  the  original  Lyceum 
Theatre  Company.  There  he  appeared  as  Robert  Gray  in  "The 
Wife,"  Clement  Hale  in  "Sweet  Lavender,"  and  Randolph  in 
"The  Marquise."  His  appearance  as  Kerchival  West  in  Bronson 
Howard's  "Shenandoah"  was  followed  by  his  engagement  by 
Charles  Frohman  as  leading  man  of  the  Empire  Theatre  Stock 
Company,  and  there  he  made  his  mark  as  Mr.  Brabazon  in 
"Sowing  the  Wind,"  Mr.  Owen  in  "Liberty  Hall,"  J.  Ffolliet 
Treherne  in  "Gudgeons,"  Rudolph  in  "Bohemia,"  and  David 
Remon  in  "The  Masqueraders."  He  first  appeared  as  a  star  in 
1896  in  the  original  production  of  "Heartsease,"  by  Charles  Klein 


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and  J.  I.  C.  Clarke.  In  1898  he  again  starred  in  "The  Master," 
be  Stuart  Ogilvie.  In  the  fall  of  1899  he  created  the  leading 
role  in  "The  Only  Way,"  a  dramatization  of  Charles  Dickens' s 
"Tale  of  Two  Cities,"  by  Freeman  Wills,  which  was  produced 
for  the  first  time  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  on 
September  16.  Mr.  Miller  has  recently  become  a  manager,  and 
has  been  associated  as  joint  star  with  Margaret  Anglin.  The 
season  of  1905-6  he  appeared  in  "Grierson's  Way,"  "Zira,"  and 
"Young  Fernald."  The  fall  season  of  1906  he  produced  "The 
Great  Divide,"  a  drama  by  William  Vaughn  Moody,  which 
opened  the  Princess  Theatre,  New  York,  on  October  3.  He  con 
tinued  to  act  this  play  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8.  His  home  is  at 
255  West  Fifty-filth  street,  New  York. 

MILLIKEN,  Miss  Sandol  (Mrs.  Carlos  French  Stoddard) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  and  was  educated  in 
Washington,  D.  C.,  and  in  Paris,  France.  Her  first  stage  appear 
ance  was  with  Augustin  Daly's  company,  where  she  was  seen 
only  in  small  parts.  She  then  became  leading  ingenue  with 
Henry  V.  Donnelly's  Stock  Company  at  the  Murray  Hill  Thea 
tre,  New  York.  Then  she  joined  W.  H.  Crane's  company,  play 
ing  Katrina  in  "Peter  Stuyvesant,"  and  Reckless  Griggs  in  "A 
Rich  Man's  Son."  In  1900  Miss  Milliken  played  in  "The  Sprightly 
Romance  of  Marsac"  with  Macklyn  Arbuckle,  and  the  following 
season  was  with  Jefferson  De  Angelis  in  "A  Royal  Rogue."  Then 
followed  successive  seasons  with  "The  Liberty  Belles,"  and  "The 
Defender."  Later  she  went  under  Charles  Frohman's  manage 
ment,  playing  in  "The  Bird  in  a  Cage,"  and  "The  Unforeseen" 
at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New  York.  The  fall  of  1903  she  sup 
ported  Miss  Maude  Adams  in  "The  Pretty  Sister  of  Jose,"  and 
also  supported  Robert  Edeson,  as  Mary  Cahill  in"Ranson's  Folly." 
Miss  Milliken  was  married  to  Carlos  French  Stoddard,  of  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  March  3,  1904,  since  which  she  has  retired  from 
the  stage. 

MILLWARD,  Miss  Jessie  (Mrs.  John  Glendinning) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  1868  in  England.  Her  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  was  when  she  produced,  with  the  assistance 
of  amateurs,  "Love's  Sacrifice"  at  Toole's  Theatre,  London.  Her 
performance  attracted  Mrs.  Kendal,  who  offered  her  an  engage 
ment.  She  afterward  played  with  Genevieve  Ward  in  "Forget- 
Me-Not,"  and  then  was  engaged  by  Sir  Henry  Irving  for  the 
part  of  Hero  in  "Much  Ado  About  Nothing."  She  played  other 
good  parts  with  Irving,  and  accompanied  him  to  the  United 
States  on  his  first  tour  of  this  country,  afterward  returning 


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with  him  to  the  Lyceum  in  London.  Charles  Frohman  saw  her 
in  New  York  and  tempted  her  back  to  play  Pauline  in  "Called 
Back."  Returning  to  London,  she  was  engaged  by  the  Gattis 
as  leading  woman  at  the  Adelphi,  in  conjunction  with  William 
Terriss,  whom  she  accompanied  to  America  in  1888,  where  they 
starred  together.  Returning  again  to  England,  she  appeared 
with  Terriss  at  Drury  Lane  in  "Paul  Kauvar."  Miss  Millward 
then  received  a  four  years'  engagement  at  Drury  Lane  from  the 
late  Augustus  Harris,  and  appeared  in  "A  Million  of  Money"  in 
1890,  followed  by  "A  Sailor's  Knot"  and  other  plays.  In  1895 
she  returned  to  the  Adelphi,  and  again  starred  with  Terris  in 
melodrama  up  to  the  time  of  that  popular  actor's  murder,  De 
cember  16,  1897.  In  1898  she  came  to  the  United  States,  where 
she  filled  a  long  series  of  starring  engagements  in  New  York 
and  other  parts  of  the  country  under  the  management  of  Charles 
Frohman.  She  created  the  part  of  Mrs.  Wilmore  in  "The  Hypo 
crites"  at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New  York  City,  August  30,  1906, 
and  continued  playing  it  throughout  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8. 
Early  in  1907  Miss  Millward  was  married  to  John  Glendinning> 
an  actor. 

MITCHELL,  Miss  Ada: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  1880,  being  the  only 
child  of  J.  S.  and  Ella  Mitchell.  She  received  a  vocal  educa 
tion,  and  at  the  age  of  ten  appeared  in  an  amateur  production, 
"Revolt  of  the  Holidays,"  in  Baltimore.  She  afterward  sang  in 
church  choirs  in  her  native  city.  She  made  her  professional 
stage  debut  on  August  15,  1904,  at  the  New  York  Theatre,  New 
York,  in  the  chorus  of  "The  Maid  and  the  Mummy."  Her  first 
speaking  part  was  that  of  Kimono  in  "The  Mayor  of  Tokio," 
played  at  the  Illinois  Theatre,  Chicago,  on  August  13, 1905.  At  the 
opening  of  the  production  at  the  Walnut  Street  Theatre,  Phila 
delphia,  she  sang  the  prima  donna  part.  She  is  fond  of  all 
athletic  sports  and  is  a  baseball  "fan." 

MODJESKA,  Madame  Helena  (Countess  Bozenta)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Cracow,  Poland,  in  1844,  her  father 
being  Michael  Opido,  a  Tatra  mountaineer.  She  takes  the  stage 
name  of  Modjeska  from  that  of  her  first  husband,  Modrzejew- 
ski,  who  was  her  guardian  and  to  whom  she  was  married  when 
she  was  seventeen  years  old.  Two  of  her  brothers  became  act 
ors,  and  her  first  husband  fostered  her  ambition  for  the  stage 
by  organizing  a  small  traveling  company  for  her  before  she 
was  eighteen.  It  consisted  of  herself  as  star,  her  husband,  her 
sister  and  the  latter's  husband,  and  three  of  her  brothers.  For 


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years  she  acted  in  small  Polish  towns.  In  1865,  returning  to  her 
native  town,  she  played  leading  parts  and  became  famous.  Her 
first  husband  dying  while  she  was  still  very  young,  in  1868  she 
was  married  to  Charles  Chlapowski,  Count  Bozenta,  who  took 
her  to  the  Warsaw  Theatre,  where  she  made  a  remarkable  suc 
cess,  opening  in  "Adrienne  Lecouvreur"  and  continuing  there 
until  she  and  her  husband  were  practically  exiled  for  political 
reasons.  Applying  herself  to  studying  English,  she  mastered  it 
in  nine  months  and  made  her  first  appearance  as  an  English- 
speaking  actress  in  San  Francisco  in  1877,  where  she  remained 
two  years,  playing  "Mary  Stuart,"  "The  Old  Love  and  the  New," 
"Romeo  and  Juliet,"  "Adrienne  Lecouvreur,"  and  "Heartsease."' 
She  went  to  London  for  the  first  time  in  1880  and  she  repeated 
her  success.  Madame  Modjeska  acted  Juliet  to  the  Romeo  of 
Edwin  Booth  on  April  30,  1883,  at  Booth's  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  on  May  21,  1888,  she  was  the  Ophelia  to  the  Hamlet  of  Ed 
win  Booth  at  Lester  Wallack's  benefit.  Joseph  Jefferson  and 
William  Florence  were  the  two  Gravediggers  in  the  all-star  cast. 
In  January,  1895,  Madame  Modjeska  was  suddenly  stricken  with 
an  illness  which  compelled  her  to  retire  temporarily  from  the 
stage.  For  two  years  she  lived  in  seclusion  on  her  ranch  in 
California.  In  1898  she  again  resumed  her  career,  and  she  has 
since  starred  in  repertoire  both  in  this  country  and  in  England. 
Her  home  address  is  Arden,  El  Toro,  Orange  County,  Cal. 

MOODY,  William  Vaughan: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Spencer,  Ind.,  July  8,  1869,  and 
was  graduated  from  Harvard  University.  His  first  literary  work 
to  attract  attention  was  a  volume  of  poems  published  in  190 J, 
but  it  is  as  the  author  of  "The  Great  Divide"  that  he  is  best 
known  to  the  stage.  He  has  also  written  a  lyrical  drama  called 
"The  Masque  of  Judgment,"  published  in  1900,  and  "The  Fire 
Bringer,"  published  in  1903.  "The  Great  Divide"  was  first 
produced  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  September  10,  1906,  and  in  New 
York  the  following  October  3  with  Henry  Miller  and  Miss  Mar 
garet  Anglin  in  the  principal  parts.  Mr.  Moody  is  Professor  of 
English  Literature  at  the  University  of  Chicago. 

MOORE,  Carlyle: 

Actor  and  stage  manager,  was  born  in  Oakland,  Cal.,  June 
17,  1875,  and  was  educated  at  the  University  of  California.  Be 
fore  going  on  the  stage  he  was  a  manufacturing  chemist.  He 
made  his  first  appearance  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  in  March,  1896, 
in  an  Irish  play  with  James  Ward.  Two  years  later  he  joined 
the  Alcazar  Stock  Company  in  San  Francisco,  then  under  the 


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management  of  Belasco  and  Thall,  commencing  as  call  boy  at 
five  dollars  a  week,  remaining  five  years  and  ending  as  stage 
director.  He  then  joined  Miss  Florence  Roberts,  and  during  the 
three  years  he  was  with  her  produced  the  first  twelve  plays  she 
starred  in.  With  James  Neill,  as  stage  director,  he  remained 
two  years,  playing  everything  from  leads  to  character  bits  and 
producing  plays.  After  a  season  as  stage  director  for  P.  F. 
Proctor  in  New  York,  for  one  year  he  played  Denis  O'Hara  in 
"Sweet  Kitty  Bellairs"  on  tour,  and  he  then  became  general 
stage  director  for  Sweely,  Shipman  &  Co.  The  season  of  1907-8 
Mr.  Moore  played,  with  his  own  company,  a  sketch  called  "The 
Man's  the  Thing"  in  vaudeville  houses.  Mr.  Moore  married  Miss 
Ethelyn  Palmer,  an  actress,  July  8,  1903.  His  favorite  recreations 
are  swimming,  fencing  and  riding.  He  holds  the  record  for 
fancy  and  high  diving.  For  a  long  time  he  held  the  Pacific 
Coast  record  for  the  broad  jump,  20  feet  10  ^  inches.  He  is  an 
honorary  member  of  the  Multnomah  Athletic  Club  of  Portland, 
Ore.  His  home  is  at  607  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-seventh 
street,  New  York.  His  summer  address  is  Pigeon  Cove,  Mass. 

MOORE,  Miss  Decima  (Mrs.  F.  C.  Guggisberg) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Brighton,  England,  December  11,  1871, 
and  was  educated  at  Boswell  House  College,  Brighton,  England. 
She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  Lon 
don,  as  Casilda  in  "The  Gondoliers"  in  1889,  and  was  subse 
quently  seen  in  "La  Fille  de  Madame  Angot"  at  the  Criterion 
Theatre,  London;  "The  Scarlet  Feather"  at  the  Shaftesbury 
Theatre,  and  in  "Florodora"  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  there.  She 
then  came  to  America,  touring  in  musical  comedy,  and  later 
was  engaged  by  Charles  Frohman  to  star  in  "All-of-a-Sudden 
Peggy."  Miss  Moore  is  the  wife  of  Major  F.  C.  Guggisberg,  of 
the  Royal  Artillery.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Army  and 
Navy  Club,  London. 

MOORE,  Miss  Irene: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  September  29,  1890, 
her  father  being  the  late  Crawford  Moore,  a  prominent  banker 
of  Kansas  City,  and  her  grandfather  Captain  Crawford  Moore, 
who  represented  Missouri  as  Senator  in  Washington  for  two 
terms.  On  her  mother's  side  Miss  Moore  is  related  to  Colonel 
J.  C.  Bowker,  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  one  of  the  famous  men  of  affairs 
of  the  South  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  Miss  Moore  was 
graduated  from  Bethany  College,  Topeka,  Kan.,  and  was  class 
valedictorian  of  her  year.  Her  first  appearance  on  the  stage 
was  in  the  part  of  Meenie  in  "Rip  Van  Winkle"  when  she  was 


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only  thirteen  years  old.  The  occasion  was  a  benefit  given  by  a 
stock  company  under  the  management  of  O.  D.  Woodward.  She 
was  graduated  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  and  on  the  death  of  her 
father  her  mother  took  her  abroad,  where  for  two  years  she 
studied  for  a  stage  career.  The  season  of  1907-8  Miss  Moore 
played  the  ingenue  part  of  Dora  in  James  K.  Hackett's  produc 
tion  of  "John  Glayde's  Honor."  Miss  Moore  speaks  four  lan 
guages  fluently,  is  an  accomplished  musician  and  possesses  a 
fine  voice.  Her  home  is  at  1730  Broadway,  New  York. 

MOORE,  Miss  Elsie: 

Light  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  on  one  of  the  Fiji  Isl 
ands,  her  father  being  the  Hon.  George  Moore,  Crown  Surveyor 
of  Sutro.  She  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  when  she 
was  sixteen  years  old  as  "the  youngest  light  opera  prima  donna 
in  Australia"  in  "The  Gondoliers"  under  the  management  of 
J.  C.  Williamson.  Afterward,  under  his  management,  she  played 
the  title  roles  in  "San  Toy,"  "The  Belle  of  New  York,"  "The 
Circus  Girl,"  "The  Runaway  Girl,"  Dolores  in  "Florodora,"  and 
the  prima  donna  parts  in  the  Gilbert  and  Sullivan  operas,  mak 
ing  pronounced  successes  in  "Patience";  as  Yum  Yum  in  "The 
Mikado,"  Mabel  in  "Pirates  of  Penzance,"  and  Josephine  in 
•"H.  M.  S.  Pinafore"  in  Melbourne,  Sydney  and  Brisbane.  She 
came  to  this  country  in  August,  1905,  appearing  in  San  Fran 
cisco.  She  went  to  New  York  a  few  weeks  later  to  play  in  "The 
Earl  and  the  Girl,"  and  remained  with  that  company  until  1908. 

MOORE,  Victor  Frederick: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Hammonton,  N.  J.,  February  24,  1876,  and 
was  educated  in  his  native  town  and  in  Boston,  Mass.  He  was 
an  office  boy  before  going  on  the  stage  and  made  his  first  ap 
pearance  at  the  Boston  Theatre  in  "Babes  in  Toyland"  as  a 
"super."  Then  followed  seasons  with  Arthur  Sidman  in  "A 
Summer  Shower"  with  John  Drew  in  "Rosemary,"  later  appear 
ing  in  "A  Romance  of  Coon  Hollow,"  "The  Real  Widow  Brown," 
and  "The  Girl  from  Paris,"  under  E.  E.  Rice's  management. 
Subsequently  he  appeared  in  stock  in  Peoria,  111.;  Newark,  N.  J.; 
Philadelphia  and  New  York.  In  1901  he  went  into  vaudeville, 
playing  a  comedy  sketch.  He  toured  in  this  four  years.  The 
seasons  of  1905-6-7  he  was  seen  in  "Forty-five  Minutes  from 
Broadway,"  in  which  he  created  the  role  of  Kid  Burns,  and  the 
season  of  1907-8  appeared  in  George  M.  Cohan's  "The  Talk  of 
New  York,"  which  opened  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New 
York,  December  3,  1907.  Mr.  Moore  married  Miss  Emma  Little- 
field,  an  actress,  June  26,  1903.  His  favorite  recreations  are 


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hunting  and  fishing.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Green  Room  Club, 
New  York.    His  address  is  13  Worcester  square,  Boston,  Mass. 

MORETTI,  Miss  Eleanor  (Eleanor  Rogers) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  England,  being  a  daughter  of  Katherine 
Rogers  and  a  sister  of  Katherine  Florence.  She  scored  one  of 
her  first  successes  in  "The  Silver  King,"  playing  Nellie  Denver, 
and  since  then  has  played  a  wide  range  of  parts.  Miss  Moretti 
has  been  associated  with  Alexander  Salvini  in  most  of  his  pro 
ductions,  and  was  in  the  original  productions  of  "The  Sporting 
Duchess"  and  "The  Darling  of  the  Gods."  The  season  of  1907-8 
she  played  Malena  in  "The  Road  to  Yesterday,"  succeeding 
Helen  Ware  in  that  part. 

MORRIS,  Miss  Mildred: 

Actress,  the  daughter  of  the  late  Felix  Morris,  the  well- 
known  English  actor,  was  born  in  London,  and  came  to  the 
United  States  when  she  was  one  year  old.  She  lived  for  a  time 
in  Wisconsin  and  received  her  early  schooling  there  at  the  Hill 
side  Home  School.  Later,  coming  to  New  York,  she  completed 
her  education  in  the  Friends'  Seminary.  She  made  her  first 
appearance  in  New  York,  being  an  "extra"  in  the  company  of 
Mrs.  Minnie  Maddern  Fiske  which  presented  "Mary  of  Mag- 
dala"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  in  1902.  In  March  of  the  same 
year  she  joined  the  "Little  Princess"  company,  at  first  playing 
a  small  part  and  later  that  of  Becky.  In  the  spring  of  1904  she 
was  engaged  for  the  leading  boy's  part,  Tom,  in  "Two  Little 
Sailor  Boys."  Her  work  in  these  minor  parts  was  sufficiently 
marked  to  lead  Richard  Mansfield  to  engage  her  for  his  com 
pany  for  the  season  of  1904-5,  the  characters  she  assumed  being 
that  of  the  Prince  in  "Richard  III,"  and  Nerissa  in  "The  Mer 
chant  of  Venice."  The  seasons  of  1905-6-7  she  played  Wendy  in 
Charles  Frohman's  production  of  "Peter  Pan." 

MORRIS,  William: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston  in  1861.  He  was  only  fourteen 
years  old  when  he  joined  the  Boston  Museum  Stock  Company. 
After  serving  his  apprenticeship  in  the  companies  of  Augustin 
Daly  and  Madame  Modjeska,  he  became  leading  man  of  Charles 
Frohman's  Empire  Theatre  Stock  Company,  opening  that  thea 
tre  as  Lieutenant  Hawkesworth  in  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me." 
He  left  that  company  in  1894  to  star  in  "The  Lost  Paradise," 
as  Gil  de  Berault  in  "Under  the  Red  Robe,"  and  in  "The  Ad 
venture  of  Lady  Ursula."  In  1901  he  played  in  "When  We 
Were  Twenty-one,"  and  since  then  appeared  in  many  important 


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productions.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  seen  as  Jack  Brook- 
field  in  the  Chicago  production  of  "The  Witching  Hour."  He 
married  Etta  Hawkins  in  1891.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Players, 
New  York. 

MOULAN,  Frank: 

Comedian  and  singer,  was  born  in  New  York,  and,  as  a 
boy,  was  regarded  as  a  remarkable  singer.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Young  Apollo  Club,  and  sang  in  the  choir  of  Trinity  Church. 
He  afterward  was  solo  vocalist  in  the  choir  of  a  Jersey  City 
church.  He  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  with  the 
Calhoun  Opera  Company,  and  in  1897  joined  the  Castle  Square 
Opera  Company  as  comedian.  Mr.  Moulan  made  his  first  big 
success  in  George  Ade's  comic  opera,  "The  Sultan  of  Sulu,"  pro 
duced  at  the  Studebaker  Theatre,  Chicago,  March  11,  1902,  and 
afterward  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York.  The  last  two  sea 
sons  he  has  starred  in  "The  Grand  Mogul."  Mr.  Moulan  mar 
ried  Miss  Maud  Lillian  Berri,  an  actress. 

MURRAY,  J.  K.: 

Actor  and  opera  singer,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  England. 
He  came  to  this  country  in  1869,  settling  in  Pittsburg,  where 
he  lived  until  he  began  his  stage  career,  in  1884,  his  first  pro 
fessional  engagement  being  with  Catherine  Lewis.  He  next 
joined  the  McCaull  Opera  Company,  opening  in  Boston  in  "The 
Sorcerer"  in  the  spring  of  1885.  The  following  year  Mr.  Murray 
joined  the  Carleton  Opera  Company,  and  remained  with  that 
organization  six  years,  traveling  chiefly  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
The  season  of  1892-3  Mr.  Murray  produced  the  Irish  drama 
"Glen  da  Lough"  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  Boston,  starring 
himself  and  being  supported  by  his  wife,  Clara  Lane.  He  then 
formed  the  Murray-Lane  Opera  Company,  which  toured  the 
Western  cities.  In  1895  he  joined  the  Castle  Square  Opera  Com 
pany.  He  has  since  sung  with  various  operatic  organizations, 
and  with  his  wife  has  appeared  in  vaudeville. 

NAUDAIN,  Miss  May: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Burlington,  Iowa,  October  12,  1880,  and 
educated  at  the  public  schools  in  Omaha,  Neb.  Her  first  stage 
appearance  was  made  in  1903  as  Jack  in  "Babes  in  Toyland"  in 
Chicago,  II.  The  season  of  1904-5  she  was  seen  in  the  role  of 
Marquise  Pranziska  in  "It  Happened  in  Nordland"  with  Lew 
Fields.  She  then  appeared  in  the  prima  donna  role  of  "His 
Majesty"  at  the  Majestic  Theatre,  New  York,  and  the  seasons 
of  190G-7  was  with  Hattie  Williams  in  "The  Little  Cherub." 


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The   season   of   1907-8    she   appeared    as   Winnie   Willoughby    in 
"The  Girl  Behind  the  Counter." 

NAZIMOVA,  Madame  Alia  (Nazimoff) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Yalta,  Crimea,  on  the  Black  Sea,  Rus 
sia,  May  22,  1879.  When  a  child  she  was  taken  to  Geneva, 
Switzerland,  and  there  received  her  early  education  and  learned 
to  play  the  violin.  Returning  to  Russia,  she  made  her  first  ap 
pearance  in  Yalta,  playing  a  violin  solo  at  a  Christmas  concert 
when  she  was  twelve  years  old.  She  then  spoke  French  and 
German  perfectly,  but  had  to  learn  her  native  tongue,  having 
only  remembered  a  few  words  of  Russian.  A  year  later  she  en 
tered  St.  Petersburg  Conservatoire,  in  Odessa,  to  study  the  vio 
lin.  She  chose  instead  to  take  the  dramatic  course,  and  at  the 
end  of  three  years  she  won  the  gold  medal.  While  at  school  she 
worked  as  a  "super"  at  the  Artistic  Theatre,  under  the  direc 
tion  of  Stanisloffsky,  Russia's  greatest  stage  director.  The  sea 
son  after  her  graduation  she  became  leading  woman  and  pro 
ducer  at  Kostroma,  in  the  north  of  Russia,  playing  about  two 
hundred  star  parts  in  a  single  season  in  all  classes  of  plays 
from  tragedy  to  musical  comedy.  The  season  of  1901  she  played 
in  a  stock  company  in  Kerson,  a  small  city  in  the  south  of 
Russia;  the  next  season  was  at  Vilna,  in  Poland,  where  she 
played  "L'Aiglon,"  and  in  1903  she  was  first  seen  in  St.  Peters 
burg,  playing  all  the  leading  roles,  including  "Zaza,"  "Camille," 
"Magda,"  "Hedda  Gabler,"  "Trilby,"  "The  Second  Mrs.  Tan- 
queray,"  etc.  Madame  Nazimova  left  Russia  in  1904  with  Paul 
Orleneff,  a  famous  Russian  actor,  for  the  purpose  of  producing 
"The  Chosen  People,"  a  drama  prohibited  by  the  Russian  cen 
sors  because  of  its  racial  views.  The  play  being  a  huge  suc 
cess  in  Berlin  she  took  it  to  London,  playing  also  many  other 
plays  in  her  repertoire  and  some  modern  Russian  realistic  plays. 
With  Orleneff  and  their  company  she  came  to  this  country  in 
the  fall  of  1905,  opening  in  repertoire  at  the  Criterion  Theatre, 
New  York.  Her  ability  was  so  marked  that  she  was  induced  to 
remain  in  this  country.  In  May,  1906,  when  she  signed  a  con 
tract  to  act  in  English  the  following  November,  she  only  knew 
half  a  dozen  words  of  that  language.  Her  appearance  as  Hed 
da  Gabler  at  the  Princess  Theatre,  under  the  management  of 
Henry  Miller  was  hailed  as  a  triumph.  This  was  followed  by 
"A  Doll's  House,"  and  in  the  spring  of  1907  she  opened  at  the 
Bijou  Theatre,  New  York,  in  "Countess  Coquette,"  a  play  by 
Roberto  Bracco.  The  fall  of  1907  she  appeared  as  Hilda  Wan- 
gel  in  Henrik  Ibsen's  "The  Master  Builder,"  and  in  December 
was  seen  in  Owen  Johnson's  "The  Comet"  at  the  same  theatre. 


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NESBITT,  Miss  Miriam: 

Actress;  while  a  student  at  the  Wheatcroft  Dramatic  School, 
New  York,  in  1897,  attracted  the  attention  of  Charles  Frohman, 
and  in  the  season  of  1898-9  she  was  a  member  of  his  stock  com 
pany,  playing  Monica  in  "The  Tree  of  Knowledge,"  succeeding 
Mary  Mannering,  and  supporting  James  K.  Hackett.  In  1899 
she  was  also  in  the  original  cast  of  "The  White  Horse  Tavern" 
at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  playing  Attille.  In  1900  she 
played  the  Fishing  Girl  in  the  same  play  on  the  road,  and  was 
leading  woman  in  Frederick  Bond's  summer  stock  company  at 
Albany.  She  then  signed  with  Joseph  Haworth,  and  played  un 
til  January,  1901,  in  "Robert  of  Sicily"  with  him,  appearing  the 
remainder  of  the  season  with  Ada  Rehan  in  "Sweet  Nell  of  Old 
Drury. "  In  1901-2  she  was  William  H.  Crane's  leading  woman 
in  "David  Harum,"  and  in  1902-3  leading  woman  with  Chauncey 
Olcott  in  "Old  Limerick."  In  1903  she  was  also  leading  woman 
with  Henry  E.  Dixey  in  "Facing  the  Music,"  and  played  as 
leading  woman  in  "The  County  Chairman"  at  Wallack's  Theatre, 
New  York,  and  in  Chicago.  In  August,  1904,  she  went  to  Eng 
land,  and  toured  through  September  and  October  as  leading 
woman  in  "A  Stranger  in  a  Strange  Land,"  playing  the  Ameri 
can  Girl  in  an  entirely  English  company.  In  December  she  ap 
peared  at  the  Duke  of  York's  Theatre,  London,  in  "Peter  Pan." 
In  1905  she  returned  to  America  and  supported  Henrietta  Cros- 
man  in  "Mary,  Mary,  Quite  Contrary"  until  January,  1906, 
when  she  supported  Lawrance  D'Orsay  in  Augustus  Thomas's 
"The  Embassy  Ball."  The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  she  was  seen  in 
"The  Road  to  Yesterday." 

NETHERSOLE,  Miss  Olga: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Kensington,  London,  in  1870.  Her 
mother  was  of  Spanish  descent,  and  her  father  a  scion  of  one 
of  the  oldest  Kentish  families.  She  was  educated  in  Germany. 
The  death  of  her  father,  who  was  a  barrister  in  London,  made 
it  necessary  that  she  should  provide  for  herself,  and  she  chose 
the  stage  as  the  field  for  her  work.  Miss  Nethersole  had  some 
experience  as  an  amateur  before  making  her  professional  debut 
as  Lettice  Vane  in  Henry  Hamilton's  play,  "Harvest,"  produced 
at  the  Theatre  Royal,  Brighton,  England,  March,  1887.  After 
a  year  in  the  English  provinces,  Miss  Nethersole  made  her  first 
appearance  in  London  in  July,  1888,  at  the  Adelphi  Theatre  in 
"The  Union  Jack."  She  next  played  the  leading  role  at  the  St. 
James's  Theatre  in  "The  Dean's  Daughter,"  and  later  she  cre 
ated  the  role  of  Lola  Montez  in  "The  Silver  Falls."  For  the 
opening  of  the  new  Garrick  Theatre,  in  1889,  she  was  engaged 


326  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

to  create  the  role  of  Janet  Preece  in  A.  W.  Pinero's  "The  Profli 
gate."  She  also  appeared  under  the  same  management  in  this 
theatre  as  Floria  in  "La  Tosca,"  and  in  "A  Fool's  Paradise." 
After  a  ten  months'  tour  in  Australia,  during  which  she  ap 
peared  in  "The  Idler,"  "Moths,"  "The  Village  Priest,"  "The  For 
tune  of  War,"  "A  Scrap  of  Paper,"  etc.,  she  returned  to  London 
and  appeared  as  the  Countess  Zicka  in  a  revival  of  "Diplomacy." 
At  this  time,  too,  she  created  the  leading  role  in  "The  Silent 
Battle,"  a  play  written  by  an  American  novelist,  Isaac  Hender 
son,  and  produced  at  the  Criterion  Theatre.  In  1894  Miss 
Nethersole  leased  the  Royal  Court  Theatre,  in  London,  and  there 
produced  "The  Transgressor."  Her  American  debut  took  place 
at  Palmer's  Theatre,  New  York,  October  15,  1894,  in  "The  Trans 
gressor."  In  May,  1895,  she  was  again  at  the  Garrick  Theatre, 
London,  playing  the  leading  character  in  Pinero's  "The  Notori 
ous  Mrs.  Ebbsmith."  June  6,  1896,  Miss  Nethersole  produced 
"Carmen"  at  the  Gaiety,  London,  and  in  1897  brought  it  to  the 
United  States,  where  her  portrayal  of  the  role  of  Carmen  and 
the  "Nethersole  kiss,"  as  it  was  called,  caused  widespread  com 
ment.  In  1898  Miss  Nethersole  leased  His  Majesty's  Theatre, 
London,  and  there  produced  "The  Termagant,"  by  Louis  N. 
Parker  and  Murray  Carson.  In  1902  she  leased  the  Adelphi 
Theatre,  in  London,  and  produced  Clyde  Fitch's  adaptation  of 
Daudet's  novel,  "Sapho."  The  same  year  she  produced  that 
play  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  and  both  actress  and  play 
came  into  great  prominence  through  the  efforts  made  to  stop 
her  from  presenting  it.  The  case  was  taken  to  the  Supreme 
Court,  and  finally,  Miss  Nethersole  winning,  she  continued  to 
present  the  play.  The  season  of  1905-6  she  made  her  fifth  tour 
of  the  United  States,  and  presented,  in  addition  to  her  repertoire, 
"The  Labyrinth,"  a  version  of  "La  Dedale,"  by  W.  L.  Courtenay. 
She  returned  to  Europe,  and  the  season  of  1907-8  toured  the 
United  States  in  repertoire.  Miss  Nethersole's  homes  are  at  5 
Norfolk  street,  Park  Lane,  London,  England,  and  Villa  Lou  Bas- 
quou,  Biarritz,  France. 

NIELSEN,  Miss  Alice  (Mrs.  B.  Nentwig)  : 

Prima  donna,  was  born  in  Nashville,  Tenn.  Her  father  was 
a  Dane,  and  her  mother  was  of  Irish  descent.  During  the  Civil 
War  her  father,  who  was  a  professional  violinist,  while  fighting 
on  the  Union  side,  received  a  wound  which  eventually  caused 
his  death.  Left  a  widow  when  Alice  was  eight  years  old,  Mrs. 
Nielsen,  with  her  three  children,  went  to  Kansas  City  and  opened 
a  boarding-house  at  Thirteenth  and  Cherry  streets.  Alice  was 
educated  at  St.  Teresa's  Academy,  and  took  singing  lessons 


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from  Professor  Max  Desci.  Joining  the  choir  of  St.  Patrick's 
Church,  Kansas  City,  in  1888,  Miss  Nielsen's  voice  soon  attracted 
much  attention.  In  1890  she  became  the  wife  of  Benjamin  Nent- 
wig,  the  organist  of  the  church.  They  had  one  child,  a  boy,  but 
the  marriage  proved  unhappy,  and  was  followed  by  a  divorce. 
Miss  Nielsen  sang  in  church  for  five  years,  and  then,  in  1892, 
she  went  with  a  concert  party  which  became  stranded  in  St, 
Joseph,  Mo.  Obtaining  an  engagement  to  sing  at  the  Eden 
Musee  there  for  a  week,  thus  getting  money  to  pay  her  way 
home,  she  joined  the  Pike  Opera  Company  and  sang  in  the 
chorus  of  that  organization  in  Oakland,  Cal.  Her  voice  and 
personality  attracted  the  notice  of  George  E.  Lask,  the  stage 
manager  of  the  Tivoli  Opera  Company,  and  he  engaged  her  to 
play  small  parts  at  first.  In  a  very  short  time  she  rose  to  be 
prima  donna  of  the  organization,  and  there  Henry  Clay  Bar- 
naby,  of  the  Bostonians,  heard  her  sing  Lucia.  The  result  was 
an  engagement  with  the  light  opera  organization.  She  made 
her  first  appearance  with  the  Bostonians  as  Anita  in  "The  War 
Time  Wedding."  She  was  then  given  the  small  part  of  Anna- 
belle  in  "Robin  Hood,"  and  soon  after  was  cast  for  Maid  Marian, 
the  prima  donna  part.  She  made  her  first  big  success  as  Yvonne 
in  "The  Serenade,"  which  had  a  long  run  at  the  Knickerbocker 
Theatre,  New  York.  She  then  became  a  star,  her  first  medium 
being  "The  Fortune  Teller,"  by  Stanislaus  Stange,  with  lyrics 
by  Harry  B.  Smith  and  music  by  Victor  Herbert,  produced  in 
1898.  Miss  Nielsen's  next  great  success  was  in  "The  Singing 
Girl."  In  1902  Miss  Nielsen  went  to  London  to  play  in  "The  For 
tune  Teller,"  with  which  she  had  again  been  successful  in  this 
country,  and  there  Henry  Russell,  a  well-known  musical  critic 
and  manager,  heard  her  and  took  her  to  Rome  to  study  for 
grand  opera.  She  made  her  first  appearance  as  a  grand  opera 
prima  donna  at  the  Bellini  Theatre,  Naples,  as  Marguerite  in 
"Faust."  She  next  sang  in  "La  Traviata"  at  the  San  Carlo 
Opera  House  in  Naples.  An  engagement  at  Covent  Garden, 
London,  followed.  Then  she  won  successes  as  Zerlina  in  "Don 
Giovanni,"  and  Suzanne  in  "The  Marriage  of  Figaro."  The  au 
tumn  of  1905  Miss  Nielsen  was  prima  donna  at  the  Covent  Gar 
den  opera,  London,  singing  Mimi  to  Caruso's  Rodolpho  in  Puc 
cini's  "La  Boheme,"  and  Gilda  in  "Rigoletto"  to  the  Rigoletto 
of  Maurel.  In  May,  1906,  Miss  Nielsen  and  Madame  Calve  al 
ternated  parts  at  the  New  Waldorf  Theatre,  London.  Miss  Niel 
sen  returned  to  this  country  in  the  fall  of  1906  to  appear  in 
grand  opera  with  a  company  of  which  she  and  Nordica  were 
the  prima  donnas.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  starred  in  this 
country  with  the  San  Carlos  Opera  Company. 


328  WHO'S    WHO    OX    THE    STAGE 

NILLSON,  Miss  Carlotta: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Sweden  about  thirty  years  ago.  At 
the  age  of  ten  she  came  to  America  with  her  mother,  settling 
in  Wisconsin.  From  there  she  moved  to  Minnesota,  where  she 
lived  in  poverty  among  a  settlement  of  her  country  people.  Some 
time  later  she  went  to  San  Francisco.  At  the  time  of  her  ar 
rival  there  Modjeska  was  playing  "Marie  Stuart."  Miss  Nillsou 
applied  for  a  position  with  her  company,  and  because  of  her 
responsiveness  the  celebrated  actress  employed  her  as  "extra 
girl."  Then  she  came  to  New  York  and  found  a  place  in  the 
chorus  with  Daly,  which  she  abandoned  after  a  few  days  for  a 
forty  weeks'  engagement  of  one-night  stands  as  ingenue  in  "The 
Private  Secretary."  At  the  end  she  became  ill  from  exhaustion 
and  was  forced  to  give  up  the  stage  for  some  months.  She  was 
next  out  with  a  company  under  the  management  of  John  Stet 
son,  playing  "The  Crust  of  Society,"  and  "Shenandoah,"  and  re 
mained  with  it  two  years.  Miss  Nillson  then  retired  from  the 
stage  for  three  years,  during  which  time  she  studied  with  Will 
iam  Farren  and  Genevieve  Ward,  in  England,  and  then  returned 
to  America,  appearing  as  Eunice  in  "Quo  Vadis,"  and  as  the 
Adventuress  with  Mrs.  Lemoyne's  company  in  "Among  Those 
Present."  The  following  year  she  appeared  as  Mrs.  Elvesta  in 
"Hedda  Gabler"  with  Mrs.  Fiske,  and  was  finally  engaged  by 
Charles  Frohman  for  Pinero's  "Letty."  The  season  of  1906-7 
and  of  1907-8  she  starred  in  "The  Three  of  Us." 

NOBLES,  Milton  (Tamey) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  was  educated  at  the 
public  schools  there.  He  began  his  stage  career  in  stock  com 
panies;  and  finally  branched  out  as  a  star,  playing  in  "The 
Phoenix,"  which  lasted  him  twenty  years.  Subsequently  he  was 
seen  in  "From  Sire  to  Son,"  "For  Revenge  Only,"  "The  Inter 
view,"  and  "A  Man  of  the  People."  In  June,  1881,  Mr.  Nobles 
married  Miss  Dollie  Woolwine,  an  actress  in  his  company,  and 
in  1895  they  went  into  vaudeville,  where  they  have  since  re 
mained. 

NORDICA,  Mme.  Lillian  (Norton) : 

Grand  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  in  Farmington,  Me. 
She  was  the  granddaughter  of  "Camp  Meeting"  John  Allen,  a 
New  England  preacher,  who  was  noted  for  the  bitterness  of  his 
attacks  on  the  stage.  She  began  her  musical  studies  in  Bos 
ton  under  Professor  O'Neill,  of  the  New  England  Conservatory 
of  Music.  Before  she  was  sixteen  she  had  sung  as  a  soloist  in 


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oratorio  for  the  Handel  and  Haydn  societies.  Her  first  twelve 
operatic  roles  were  studied  under  Marie  Maretzek.  Subsequently 
she  appeared  with  Gilmore's  Band  at  two  concerts  in  the  old 
Madison  Square  Garden.  She  accompanied  the  bandmaster 
abroad,  appearing  at  concerts  in  Liverpool,  London  and  on  the 
Continent.  After  appearing  with  him  in  Paris,  she  went  to 
Italy  with  her  mother,  and  there  began  the  study  of  grand  opera 
under  San  Giovanni.  She  made  her  debut  as  a  grand  opera 
prima  donna  at  Brescia,  Italy,  in  April,  1879,  in  "La  Traviata." 
After  appearing  at  Genoa  and  Novara  in  October,  1881,  she 
went  to  St.  Petersburg  and  sang  "Mignon"  before  the  Czarina. 
After  singing  in  Moscow  she  went  to  Paris,  making  her  initial 
grand  opera  performance  there  in  "Faust"  in  1882,  and  later 
singing  in  "Hamlet."  While  appearing  in  Paris  she  was  mar 
ried  to  Frederick  Gower,  well  known  as  a  scientist  and  electri 
cian.  Mr.  Gower  but  a  few  months  after  his  marriage  met  his 
death  while  conducting  a  series  of  electrical  experiments  in  a 
balloon  that  ascended  from  Woolwich  Arsenal,  England.  The 
balloon  was  carried  out  to  sea  and  collapsed,  and  Gower  and  a 
companion  were  drowned.  Through  her  husband's  death  she 
came  into  a  fortune  of  a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars.  After  this, 
in  1886,  Madame  Nordica  returned  to  the  stage,  from  which  she 
had  been  absent  for  three  years,  appearing  at  Covent  Garden, 
London,  in  "La  Traviata."  On  March  28,  1890,  she  made  her 
first  appearance  in  her  native  land  with  Signer  Tamagno  in  "II 
Trovatore."  Afterward  she  went  to  Bayreuth  and,  under  Ma 
dame  Wagner's  instructions,  studied  the  part  of  Elsa  in  "Lo 
hengrin,"  which  role  she  created  in  the  original  production  at 
Bayreuth.  After  this  she  made  some  of  her  most  notable  suc 
cesses  in  Wagnerian  roles.  In  1895  she  made  her  first  appear 
ance  in  America  in  "Tristan  und  Isolde."  On  the  eightieth  an 
niversary  of  the  birthday  of  Queen  Victoria,  Madame  Nordica 
appeared  at  Windsor  Castle  and  sang  Elsa  in  "Lohengrin"  for 
the  Queen,  the  first  time  a  Wagner  opera  was  ever  heard  by  Her 
Majesty.  For  several  years  Madame  Nordica  has  been  one  of 
the  leading  prima  donnas  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New 
York,  where  she  has  sung  all  the  roles  which  have  made  her 
famous. 

NORDSTROM,  Miss  Marie: 

Actress,  was  born  at  Fort  Apache,  Ariz.,  April  12,  1886,  and 
was  educated  at  the  Georgetown  Convent,  D.  C.  She  made  her 
first  stage  appearance  May  27,  1904,  in  Philadelphia  in  the  one- 
act  play  "David  Garrick,"  with  Henry  Dixey,  in  vaudeville.  The 
fall  of  1905  she  originated  the  role  of  Angie  in  "The  Passing 


530  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Parent,"  and  later  that  of  Nancy  Warburton  in  "The  Man  on 
the  Box."  The  season  of  1906-7  she  was  seen  in  the  leading 
role  in  that  play  on  tour.  She  returned  to  vaudeville,  appear 
ing  in  a  one-act  sketch  with  Mr.  Dixey  the  season  of  1907-8. 
Miss  Nordstrom's  address  is  1615  Twenty-first  street  N.  W., 
Washington,  D.  C. 

MORRIS,  William  (Block) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  June  15,  1870,  being  the  son 
of  Elias  M.  and  Harriet  Maye  Block.  He  was  educated  in  the 
Cosmopolitan  and  Boys'  High  School,  San  Francisco.  As  an 
amateur  he  played  the  Frenchman  in  "Esmeralda"  in  1891.  His 
first  appearance  on  the  professional  stage  was  in  December, 
1892,  in  "The  Girl  from  Mexico."  A  year  or  two  later  he 
scored  his  first  success  with  Marie  Jansen  in  "Delmonico's  at 
Six,"  and  "Miss  Dynamite,"  his  eccentric  piano-playing  in  both 
of  these  pieces  attracting  much  attention.  The  season  of  1895-6 
Mr.  Norris  appeared  with  E.  M.  and  Joseph  Holland  in  "A 
Man  with  a  Past,"  and  "A  Social  Highwayman,"  and  the  next 
year  he  was  seen  in  Charles  Frohman's  production  of  "The 
Thoroughbred."  Then  came  a  short  term  with  Thomas  Q.  Sea- 
brooke  in  "Papa  Gou  Gou,"  and  later  he  was  in  this  same 
opera,  then  entitled  "A  Normandy  Wedding,"  at  the  Herald 
Square  Theatre,  New  York;  and  the  season  following  he  had 
a  strenuous  time  of  it  in  "Little  Miss  Nobody,"  "The  Belle  of 
New  York,"  "A  Dangerous  Maid,"  and  "His  Excellency  the 
Governor,"  in  which  last  he  scored  a  hit.  In  1899  Mr.  Norris 
appeared  as  Pinchas  in  "The  Children  of  the  Ghetto";  1900,  as 
Adonis,  the  dwarf  jester,  in  "In  the  Palace  of  the  King";  with 
Viola  Allen"  1901,  as  Pepe  in  "Francesca  Da  Rimini"  with  Otis 
Skinner;  1902,  as  Barry  in  "A  Country  Girl";  1903,  as  Alan  in 
"Babes  in  Toyland";  1904,  as  Chambhuddy  Ram  in  "The  Cinga- 
lee,"  and  1905,  as  the  Man  in  the  Moon  in  "The  Land  of  Nod." 
The  summers  of  1900,  1901,  1903  and  1906  he  played  in  Chicago 
in  the  respective  productions  of  "The  Burgomaster,"  "King 
Dodo,"  "A  Business  Man,"  and  "The  Strenuous  Life."  The  sea 
son  of  1906-7  Mr.  Norris  appeared  in  "Sir  Anthony"  at  the 
Savoy  Theatre  and  was  at  the  Empire  with  Ethel  Barrymore, 
being  specially  engaged  to  play  his  original  role,  Baverstock, 
in  the  revival  of  "His  Excellency  the  Governor."  The  season  of 
1907-8  he  was  seen  as  Benjamin  Partridge  in  "Tom  Jones,"  pro 
duced  November  11,  1907,  at  the  Astor  Theatre,  New  York.  Mr. 
Norris  is  a  member  of  The  Players,  The  Lambs,  New  York,  and 
Pacific  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M. 


WILLIAM    NORRIS 


332  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

NOVELLI,  Ermete: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Lucca,  Italy,  May  5,  1851.  He  made  his 
first  stage  appearance  in  1866,  playing  in  comedy  roles.  In  1885 
he  toured  with  his  own  company  through  Italy,  later  appearing 
with  marked  success  in  France  and  England.  He  opened  his 
own  theatre,  the  Casa  Goldini,  in  Rome  in  1900,  conducted  upon 
the  same  lines  as  the  Comedie  Frangais  in  Paris,  France.  He 
came  to  this  country  in  1906,  and  appeared  at  the  Lyric  Thea 
tre  New  York,  in  extensive  repertoire.  The  season  of  1907-8  he 
again  visited  the  United  States,  appearing  in  "The  Merchant  of 
Venice,"  "Othello,"  "The  Outlaw"  and  numerous  classical  and 
romantic  roles.  He  later  went  on  tour. 

OAKER,  Miss  Jane  (Mrs.  Hale  Hamilton) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  her  maiden  name  be 
ing  Miss  Minnie  Peeper,  and  her  father,  Christian  Cornelius 
Peeper,  being  the  son  of  the  late  Christian  Peeper,  a  millionaire 
tobacco  manufacturer.  After  considerable  experience  in  lead 
ing  parts,  Miss  Oaker  attracted  much  attention  by  her  perform 
ance  of  Mrs.  Curtis  Jadwin  in  Channing  Pollock's  adaptation  of 
the  late  Frank  Norris's  novel,  "The  Pit,"  in  which  she  sup 
ported  Wilton  Lackaye  the  season  of  1905-6.  Later  she  was 
seen  with  Mr.  Lackaye  in  the  title  role  in  "Trilby."  The  fall 
of  1907  Miss  Oaker  played  Annie  Hunter  in  "The  Silver  Girl," 
by  Edward  Peple,  produced  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York, 
October  14,  1907,  and  was  later  seen  in  stock  in  New  Orleans, 
La.,  with  William  Farnum.  Miss  Oaker  was  married  to  Hale 
Hamilton  in  1905.  Her  home  is  in  St.  Louis. 

OBER,  Robert  (Robert  Howard  Ober) : 

Actor,  was  born  at  Bunker  Hill,  111.,  September  3,  1881,  and 
was  educated  at  Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  Mo.  Before 
going  on  the  stage  he  was  in  the  wholesale  dry  goods  business, 
and  was  afterward  in  the  box  office  of  the  Century  Theatre,  St. 
Louis.  He  made  his  first  appearance  at  the  same  theatre  in 
March,  1897,  playing  the  part  of  the  Express  Messenger  in  "In 
Mizzoura"  with  the  Colonel  Hopkins  Stock  Company.  The  sea 
son  of  1902-3  he  was  in  "My  Friend  from  India,"  and  "Who's 
Baby  Are  You?"  under  the  management  of  M.  B.  Price.  The 
following  season  he  was  in  "Soldiers  of  Fortune,"  and  "Tit  for 
Tat"  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1903-4 
he  was  with  the  Pittsburg  Stock  and  the  Hunter  Bradford  Stock 
companies,  Hartford,  Conn.  Following  seasons  he  was  with 
Arnold  Daly  in  "You  Never  Can  Tell,"  with  Miss  Henrietta 
Crosman  in  "The  Little  Gray  Lady,"  and  with  Charles  Rich- 


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man  in  "Gallops."  The  summer  of  1906  he  was  again  with  the 
Bradford  Stock  Company.  The  season  of  1906-7  Mr.  Ober  opened 
with  Arnold  Daly  in  repertoire,  but  the  company  disbanded 
after  three  weeks.  He  afterward  played  with  Nat  Goodwin  in 
special  matinees  of  "When  We  Were  Twenty-one"  at  the  Bijou 
Theatre,  New  York;  in  "The  Double  Life"  with  Henri  de  Vries, 
and  with  Fay  Templeton  in  "Forty-five  Minutes  from  Broad 
way."  The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  seen  in  "Brewster's  Millions" 
under  the  management  of  Cohan  and  Harris.  His  home  is  at 
5146  Kensington  avenue,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

OLCOTT,  Chauncey  (John  Chancellor)  : 

Actor  and  singer,  was  born  in  Buffalo  July  27,  1860,  and  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  in  that  city.  He  made  his  first 
appearance  as  a  ballad  singer  in  1880  with  a  minstrel  show 
under  the  management  of  the  late  R.  M.  Hooley,  and  remained 
with  that  organization  two  years.  He  then  joined  the  Haverly 
Minstrels,  and  later  was  with  the  Carncross  Minstrels  in  Phila 
delphia.  A  period  with  the  Denman  Thompson  company  fol 
lowed,  when  he  became  a  member  of  the  Duff  Opera  Company, 
staying  with  it  several  seasons,  playing  tenor  parts.  He  also 
sang  in  light  operas  in  England  for  two  years,  then  returned  to 
this  country  and  took  up  the  line  of  business  as  a  star  in  Irish 
musical  dramas  left  vacant  by  the  death  of  W.  J.  Scanlan.  Since 
then  Mr.  Olcott  has  been  regarded  as  the  leading  Irish  singing 
romantic  star  in  this  country.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  was 
seen  in  "O'Neill  of  Derry,"  by  Theodore  Burt  Sayer.  Mr.  Olcott 
married,  September  28,  1897,  Margaret  O'Donovan,  of  San  Fran 
cisco.  His  homes  are  at  Fruitvale,  Gal.,  and  Saratoga,  N.  Y. 
He  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs  and  The  Players,  New  York,  and 
the  Democratic  Club,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

O'NEILL,  James: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Kilkenny,  Ireland,  November  15,  1849. 
He  was  brought  to  this  country  when  he  was  five  years  old, 
and  was  educated  in  Buffalo  and  Cincinnati.  After  working  in 
a  clothing  store,  he  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage,  in 
1868,  as  a  "super"  in  the  National  Theatre,  Cincinnati,  during 
an  engagement  of  Edwin  Forrest.  After  a  season  of  barnstorm 
ing  and  at  the  St.  Louis  Varieties,  he  joined  the  company  0? 
Robert  Miles  in  Cincinnati,  leaving  that  to  become  leading  juve 
nile  at  the  Holliday  Street  Theatre,  Baltimore,  and  leading  man 
at  the  Academy  of  Music,  Cleveland,  where  he  played  Icillius 
to  the  Virginius  of  Edwin  Forrest.  He  also  appeared  in 
"Macbeth"  with  Charlotte  Cushman.  In  1871  Mr.  O'Neill 
became  leading  man  at  McVicker's  Theatre,  Chicago,  a 


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place  he  retained  for  two  years.  He  then  joined  the  Hooley 
Stock  Company.  In  1875  Mr.  O'Neill  joined  A.  M.  Palmer's 
New  York  company,  playing  two  years  at  the  Union  Square- 
Theatre.  He  created  the  part  of  Pierre  in  "The  Two  Orphans" 
in  this  country,  played  the  Prince  in  "The  Danicheffs,"  and 
Jean  Renaud  in  "A  Celebrated  Case."  The  following  three  years 
he  was  at  Baldwin's  Theatre,  San  Francisco.  In  1880  Mr. 
O'Neill  impersonated  the  Saviour  in  "The  Passion  Play"  on  its 
production  in  San  Francisco.  Mr.  O'Neill  played  in  "Deacon 
Crankett"  in  1882,  and  starred  for  a  while  in  "An  American 
King."  Early  in  1883  John  Stetson  revived  the  drama  "The 
Count  of  Monte  Cristo"  at  Booth's  Theatre,  New  York.  Charles 
P.  Thorne,  Jr.,  played  the  part  of  Edmond  Dantes  the  first 
night  and  died  the  next  day.  Mr.  O'Neill  took  up  the  part, 
which  he  continued  to  play  almost  continuously  for  sixteen 
years.  In  1898  he  appeared  as  D'Artagnan  in  "The  Musketeers." 
Since  then  he  has  appeared  in  various  romantic  dramas,  but  his 
reputation  is  chiefly  associated  with  "Monte  Cristo"  and  "The 
Musketeers,"  "Virginius"  and  "Julius  Caesar."  The  fall  of  1907 
he  played  an  engagement  in  his  repertoire  at  the  Lyric  Theatre, 
New  York.  He  completed  the  season  on  tour.  Mr.  O'Neill's 
home  is  at  New  London,  Conn. 

O'NEILL,  Miss  Nance  (Gertrude  Lamson)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Oakland,  Cal.,  in  1875.  She  made  her 
first  appearance  at  Weber  and  Fields's  Theatre,  New  York,  in  a 
small  part  in  "The  Long  Strike"  December  7,  1896.  The  follow 
ing  two  years  she  was  leading  woman  with  the  Murray  Hill 
Stock  Company,  and  in  1898  toured  California  as  a  star  under 
the  management  of  McKee  Rankin,  who  invented  her  stage 
name,  it  being  a  combination  of  those  of  Nance  Oldfield  and 
Eliza  O'Neill,  famous  English  actresses  of  the  eighteenth  cen 
tury.  In  March,  1900,  Miss  O'Neill  appeared  in  Sydney,  New 
South  Wales,  there  commencing  a  starring  tour  of  the  world. 
She  made  her  first  appearance  in  London,  England,  September 
1,  1902,  as  Madge.  Returning  to  this  country,  she  has  since 
starred  at  the  head  of  her  own  company  under  the  management 
of  McKee  Rankin,  playing  in  "Magda,"  "Camille,"  "Hedda  Ga- 
bler,"  "Macbeth,"  etc.  The  season  of  1907-8  Miss  O'Neill  was 
seen  in  vaudeville  houses,  playing  Shakespearian  duologues  with 
McKee  Rankin.  Her  home  is  at  Tyngsboro,  Mass. 

OPP,  Miss  Julie  (Mrs.  William  Faversham) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1873,  and  was  educated 
in  a  convent  there.  When  she  was  twenty  years  old  she  began 


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writing.  As  a  reporter  she  went  to  Paris  and  interviewed  Calve 
and  Sarah  Bernhardt.  Both  urged  her  to  adopt  the  stage  as  a 
profession,  offering  their  advice,  influence  and  support.  Return 
ing  to  this  country,  Miss  Opp  made  her  first  public  appearance 
in  the  spring  of  1896  at  a  recital  given  by  Madame  D'Hardelot 
at  the  Waldorf,  New  York.  She  recited  "The  Birth  of  the  Opal," 
by  Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox.  The  same  year,  returning  to  Paris, 
she  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  legitimate  stage,  with 
Madame  Bernhardt,  in  the  ballroom  scene  in  "Camille."  She 
then  obtained  a  year's  engagement  in  the  company  of  George 
Alexander  at  the  St.  James's  Theatre,  London,  during  which  she 
was  understudy  to  Julia  Neilson  in  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda," 
and  played  Hymen  in  "As  You  Like  It."  During  the  illness  of 
Miss  Neilson  she  played  Rosalind  and  made  her  first  big  suc 
cess.  She  was  next  seen  in  "The  Princess  and  the  Butterfly"  in. 
London,  and  in  1898  she  appeared  in  this  country  in  the  same 
play,  afterward  being  seen  as  Belle  in  "The  Tree  of  Knowl 
edge."  She  then  went  back  to  London  and  played  several  lead 
ing  parts  at  St.  James's  Theatre  there,  where  she  created  the 
role  of  Katherine  de  Vancelle  in  "If  I  Were  King."  Returning- 
to  this  country  under  engagement  with  Charles  Frohman,  Miss 
Opp  played  leading  parts  in  the  company  supporting  William 
Faversham,  whose  wife  she  became  in  1902.  She  continued  to 
play  leads  with  her  husband  until  1905,  on  October  31  of  which 
year  a  son  was  born  to  them.  The  Favershams  have  a  farm  in 
England.  Their  home  in  this  country  is  at  214  East  Seventeenth 
street,  New  York. 

O'KOURKE,  Eugene: 

Actor,  was  born  in  New  York  July  28,  1863,  and  was  edu 
cated  at  the  public  schools  of  that  city  and  at  the  Jesuit  Col 
lege  of  St.  Francis  Xavier.  His  father,  Frank  O'Rourke,  was 
school  commissioner  and  trustee,  and  also  Democratic  leader 
of  the  Sixth  Ward.  Mr.  O'Rourke  made  his  first  appearance  on 
the  stage  in  the  company  of  Harrigan  and  Hart,  playing  Paddy 
Duffy  in  "Squatter  Sovereignty,"  and  the  season  of  1887-8  he 
supported  Miss  Minnie  Palmer  in  "My  Sweetheart."  The  fol 
lowing  season  he  was  with  the  Hanlon  Brothers  in  "La  Voyage- 
en  Suisse"  and  "Fantasma."  In  1890  he  was  co-star  with  Ag 
nes  Robertson  (Mrs.  Dion  Boucicault)  in  "Arrah-na-Pogue." 
After  supporting  William  H.  Powers  in  "The  Ivy  Leaf"  he  ap 
peared  in  "The  Isle  of  Champagne"  with  Thomas  Q.  Seabrooke 
the  season  of  1902-3.  He  then  starred  for  six  years  in  "The- 
Wicklow  Postman,"  and  in  1898  he  supported  Miss  Delia  Fox 
in  "The  Little  Host."  In  1899  he  was  with  "The  Rogers  Broth- 


336  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

ers  in  Central  Park,"  following  that  with  three  seasons  in 
vaudeville  in  his  own  sketch.  In  1901  he  was  with  "Glittering 
Gloria"  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York,  making  a  great  hit  with 
the  song  "Cordelia  Malone. "  The  following  season  he  was  with 
"The  Money  Makers"  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York,  and 
then  was  for  two  seasons  in  "George  Washington,  Jr.,"  playing 
Senator  Hopkins.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  played  in  "The 
Dairymaids,"  opening  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New  York, 
August  25,  1907.  His  favorite  recreations  are  swimming,  fish 
ing,  and  breeding  game-cocks.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New 
York  Athletic  Club  and  the  Harlem  Boat  Club.  His  home  is  at 
1229  Tinton  avenue,  New  York  City,  and  his  summer  address, 
Stony  Brook,  Long  Island,  N.  Y. 

OTERO,  Caroline  (La  Belle  Otero;  Mrs.  Rene  Webb) : 

Dancer,  was  born  in  Puente  Valga,  Spain,  in  1871,  being  the 
daughter  of  the  Count  and  Countess  Carassow.  She  made  her 
first  stage  appearance  at  the  age  of  eight,  playing  in  operettas 
and  at  salon  concerts.  She  first  jumped  into  prominence  while 
dancing  in  a  small  town  near  Madrid,  when  she  was  abducted 
by  secret  agents  of  the  Spanish  King,  spirited  off  to  his  palace 
and  locked  in  a  room.  She  forced  a  window  and  escaped.  In 
1890  she  toured  in  America,  and  then  appeared  in  Vienna,  Buda 
Pesth  and  Paris,  where  she  made  a  marked  success  at  the  Cirque 
D'Ete,  and  remained  there  two  seasons.  She  then  went  to  Ber 
lin,  and  later  was  seen  at  the  Folies  Marigny  in  the  pantomime, 
"Une  Fete  a  Seville."  She  has  visited  the  United  States  on 
several  occasions  since  then.  Miss  Otero  was  married  to  the 
Marquis  de  Otero,  a  Spanish  nobleman,  at  the  age  of  thirteen. 
Three  years  later  she  eloped,  and  in  1889  the  Count  obtained  a 
divorce.  In  November,  1906,  she  was  married  to  Rene  Webb,  a 
wealthy  Englishman. 

OTIS,  Miss  Elita  Proctor  (Mrs.  William  Carpenter  Camp) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where  her  father,  Will 
iam  Henry  Otis,  was  a  banker.  Her  grandfather,  William  A. 
Otis,  was  a  Boston  banker.  Her  uncle,  Charles  A.  Otis,  late 
Mayor  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  a  partner  of  the  late  Senator 
Mark  Hanna,  of  Ohio.  Her  paternal  grandmother  was  Eliza 
Proctor,  sister  of  Senator  Redfield  Proctor,  of  Vermont,  and  a 
lineal  descendant  of  the  English  poetess,  Adelaide  Proctor.  Her 
maternal  grandmother  was  a  sister  of  Mayor  Fitler,  of  Philadel 
phia.  Miss  Otis  became  a  professional  actress  through  her  suc 
cess  as  an  amateur  in  the  productions  of  the  Comedy  Club,  in 
which  Elsie  De  Wolfe  and  Mrs.  James  Brown  Potter  first  be- 


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came  proficient  as  amateurs.  She  first  achieved  popularity  as 
Mrs.  Eastlake  Chapel  in  John  Stetson's  production  of  "The  Crust 
of  Society,"  and  afterward  starred  under  his  management  in  a 
number  of  comedy  roles,  including  those  of  Lady  Gay  Spanker 
in  "London  Assurance,"  and  Lady  Teazle  in  "The  School  for 
Scandal."  A.  M.  Palmer  engaged  her  for  his  production  of  Au 
gustus  Thomas's  "New  Blood,"  and  she  was  subsequently  the 
player  of  the  Jeading  woman  roles  in  Charles  Frohman's  pro 
ductions  of  Adelphi  melodramas,  "Sporting  Life"  being  among 
her  notable  successes.  After  a  starring  tour  as  Nancy  Sikes  in 
her  own  version  of  "Oliver  Twist,"  she  was  engaged  by  W.  A. 
Brady  to  create  the  leading  role  in  "Wine  and  Women."  She 
has  appeared  frequently  in  vaudeville  sketches,  and  for  a  time 
was  stock  star  in  the  Proctor  Fifth  Avenue  Stock  Company.  In 
the  New  York  revival  of  "The  Two  Orphans"  she  played  Mme. 
Frochard.  The  season  of  1906-7  she  was  with  Lew  Fields's  com 
pany,  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  in  "About  Town."  Early 
in  the  season  of  1907-8  Miss  Otis  played  a  sketch  in  vaudeville 
houses,  and  later  was  seen  in  Paul  Armstrong's  "Society  and 
the  Bulldog,"  produced  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York,  January  18, 
1908.  In  1900,  while  playing  in  "The  Brixton  Burglary"  at  the 
Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  she  was  married  to  William 
Camp,  a  New  York  broker,  son  of  Isaac  Camp,  the  organ  manu 
facturer,  of  Chicago.  Miss  Otis  lives  with  her  husband  at  142 
West  Forty-fourth  street,  New  York. 

PALMER,  Miss  Minnie  (Mrs.  John  R.  Rogers) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  March  31,  1860,  and  was 
educated  at  the  Convent  of  the  Sacred  Heart,  New  York.  She 
made  her  first  appearance,  when  she  was  fourteen  years  old,  in 
"Le  Pavilion  Rouge"  at  the  Park  Theatre,  Brooklyn,  June  8, 
1874.  Two  years  later  she  was  seen  at  the  old  Lyceum  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  in  "Off  the  Stage,"  "The  Pique  Family,"  "The 
Day  After  the  Wedding,"  and  a  burlesque  of  "Black-Eyed  Susan." 
She  then  played  the  part  of  Dorothy  in  "Dan'l  Druce"  at  Booth's 
Theatre,  Laura  in  "The  Little  Rebel"  (1877),  and  Minnie  Sym- 
person  in  "Engaged"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre  (1879).  The 
following  year  she  played  Jessie  in  "The  Boarding-house"  at  the 
San  Francisco  Music  Hall.  In  1882  Miss  Palmer  first  appeared 
as  Tina  in  "My  Sweetheart,"  a  part  which  she  played  continu 
ously  for  six  years,  chiefly  in  England.  On  April  29,  1889,  she 
played  in  "My  Brother's  Sister"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre, 
New  York.  The  following  Christmas  she  played  the  title  role 
in  the  pantomime  of  "Cinderella"  at  Her  Majesty's  Theatre, 
London.  She  produced  "Suzette"  at  Herrmann's  Theatre,  New 


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York,  October  11,  1890.  Subsequently  she  toured  England  for 
some  years,  playing  "My  Sweetheart,"  and  Loo  in  "The  School 
girl."  She  has  since  been  chiefly  seen  in  vaudeville. 

PALMER,  Miss  Ethelyn  (Mrs.  Carlyle  Moore) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  January  21,  1879, 
and  was  educated  at  Bethany  College,  Kansas.  She  made  her 
first  stage  appearance  in  "The  Orphan  Sisters"  in  Chicago  in 
1895,  and  her  first  year  in  the  profession  she  played  Virginia 
in  "Virginius,"  Desdemona  in  "Othello,"  and  Ophelia  in  "Ham 
let,"  supporting  Warren  Conlan.  She  then  went  to  New  York, 
opening  at  Daly's  Theatre  with  Mrs.  Brown  Potter  and  Kyrle 
Bellew  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet"  and  "La  Collier  de  la  Reine."  In 
1897  she  was  featured  in  the  leading  part  in  "Northern  Lights" 
under  the  management  of  William  Calder.  She  then  alternated 
leads  with  Miss  Eleanor  Robson  in  the  Salisbury  Stock  Company 
in  Milwaukee.  The  season  of  1898  she  was  with  the  Woodward 
Stock  Company  in  Kansas  City,  and  the  following  season  she 
starred  in  "The  Young  Wife."  She  next  played  the  Lady  in 
"The  Cowboy  and  the  Lady"  under  the  Liebler  management,  and 
was  then  featured  with  Kate  Claxton  in  "The  Two  Orphans." 
She  has  since  been  in  stock  in  Portland,  Ore.;  Buffalo,  Albany 
and  New  York.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  supported  her  husband, 
Carlyle  Moore,  in  a  sketch  in  vaudeville.  Miss  Palmer  was  mar 
ried  to  Carlyle  Moore,  July  8,  1903.  She  holds  many  blue  rib 
bons  for  riding  and  driving,  her  father — Lyman  Fish  Palmer — 
being  a  breeder  of  fine  stock  in  the  Middle  West.  She  is  also 
an  expert  swimmer.  Her  home  is  at  607  West  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-seventh  street,  New  York.  Her  summer  address  is 
Pigeon  Cove,  Mass. 

PARKER,  Louis  Napoleon: 

Playwright  and  composer,  was  born  in  Calvados,  Prance, 
October  21,  1852,  and  was  educated  at  the  Royal  Academy  of 
Music  and  at  Freiburg.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  wrote  his 
first  play,  and  upon  leaving  the  academy  was  made  director  of 
music  at  the  Sherborne  School  in  Dorset,  England.  He  retained 
that  position  until  1891,  when  he  resigned — to  devote  his  entire 
time  to  play  writing.  His  most  important  works  are  "Rosmer- 
sholm;"  "Rosemary,"  written  in  collaboration  with  Murray  Car 
son;  "Magda,"  a  translation;  "Cyrano  de  Bergerac,"  adapted 
for  the  late  Richard  Mansfield;  "The  Cardinal";  "L'Aiglon,"  in 
which  Maude  Adams  starred;  "The  Sorceress,"  translated  for 
Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell;  "Beauty  and  the  Barge,"  in  which  Nat 


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C.  Goodwin  appeared;  "The  Duel,"  starred  in  by  Otis  Skinner 
the  season  of  1906-7,  and  a  translation  of  Henri  Bernstein's  "The 
Fold"  for  Viola  Allen  the  season  of  1907-8.  Mr.  Parker  is  a 
member  of  the  Garrick  and  Pilgrim  clubs,  London.  His  home  is 
in  King  William  street,  London,  England. 

PARRY,  William : 

Manager,  actor  and  stage  manager,  was  born  in  Manchester, 
England,  January  9,  1856.  His  parents  kept  the  Royal  Hotel, 
adjoining  the  Theatre  Royal,  frequented  by  actors.  This  brought 
William  in  touch  with  the  theatrical  profession,  and  when  ten 
years  old  he  became  a  call  boy.  In  the,  stock  company  at  that 
time  were  Henry  Irving,  Charles  Wyndham,  Lionel  Brough, 
George  Rignold,  John  L.  Toole  and  others.  Mr.  Parry's  first 
appearance  as  an  actor  was  as  the  Third  Apparition  in  "Mac 
beth."  He  then  played  Robin  in  "The  Merry  Wives  of  Wind 
sor,"  and  General  Boom  in  the  pantomime  of  "Gulliver's  Trav 
els."  He  was  then  taken  to  London  with  Colonel  Mapleson's 
Italian  Opera  Company  under  the  special  care  of  Theresa  Tiet- 
jens  and  Sir  Charles  Santley,  who  saw  to  the  finishing  of  the 
boy's  education,  insisting  upon  his  mastering  the  Italian  and 
French  languages.  Between  the  opera  seasons  in  London  Will 
iam  Parry  served  as  call  boy  at  the  opening  of  the  original 
Gaiety  Theatre  under  John  Hollingshead's  management,  and  at 
Covent  Garden  Theatre  in  the  production  of  "Babel  and  Bijou" 
under  the  stage  management  of  Dion  Boucicault  and  Augustus 
Harris  (father  of  the  late  Sir  Augustus).  When  nineteen  years 
old  he  was  appointed  stage  manager,  for  the  first  time,  with 
Tomasso  Salvini.  At  twenty-six  he  organized  the  William  Parry 
Italian  Opera  Company  and  toured  the  provinces  of  England, 
Ireland,  Scotland  and  Holland.  He  came  to  America  with  Colo 
nel  Mapleson,  and  was  for  many  seasons  stage  manager  at  the 
Academy  of  Music,  and  afterward  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera 
House  under  Abbey,  Schoeffel  &  Grau.  For  four  years  he  was 
stage  manager  for  David  Henderson  in  Chicago  and  elsewhere, 
producing  the  big  spectacular  extravaganzas  "Sindbad  the  Sailor," 
"Ali  Baba"  and  others.  In  the  summer  of  1896  the  Parry  Opera 
Company  opened  a  season  of  opera  in  English  at  the  Manhattan 
Beach  Theatre,  producing  "Very  Little  Faust."  In  1900  he  gave 
a  season  of  English  opera  at  Terrace  Garden.  He  was  stage 
manager  for  Henry  W.  Savage's  English  Opera  Company,  and  in 
1907  was  stage  manager  for  the  Van  den  Berg  and  Sheehan  Opera 
companies.  He  has  staged  many  dramatic  plays,  sketches  and 
one-act  plays  for  vaudeville. 


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PASTOR,  Antonio  (Tony) : 

Enter!  ainer  and  manager,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1837, 
He  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  at  Barnum's  Museum, 
New  York,  in  the  fall  of  1846.  He  played  the  tambourine  in  a 
minstrel  company.  On  April  1,  1847,  he  went  on  a  tour  with 
this  troupe,  which  was  a  side  show  for  a  menagerie.  He  was 
billed  as  "the  infant  prodigy."  Then  he  became  a  rider  in  the 
circus  and,  as  comic  songs  were  features  of  circus  performances 
in  those  days,  he  became  a  comic  singer  as  well.  He  followed 
the  circus  business  until  1861,  when  he  deserted  it  to  sing  comic 
songs  for  Frank  Rivers.  After  that  he  went  to  New  York  and 
opened  at  old  "444"  Broadway,  making  a  specialty  of  singing 
"The  Star  Spangled  Banner."  In  May,  1861,  he  opened  the 
Broadway  Music  Hall,  at  Broadway  and  Broome  street,  where 
he  remained  until  January,  1863,  when  he  returned  to  "444." 
On  March  22,  1865,  he  began  his  managerial  career  with  Sam 
Sharpley  as  a  partner.  They  opened  at  201  Bowery.  They  gave 
a  variety  performance  to  which  women  could  go,  and  which 
omitted  the  smoking  and  drinking  features  that  had  character 
ized  such  shows  up  to  that  time.  He  remained  there  for  ten 
years.  In  October,  1875,  he  removed  to  the  first  Tony  Pastor 
house  in  Broadway,  which  was  called  Tony  Pastor's  Theatre.  It 
was  in  this  house  that  Lillian  Russell  was  first  introduced  to 
the  public.  There  he  remained  until  October,  1881,  when  the 
Fourteenth  street  house  was  opened,  in  which  Tony  Pastor  has 
remained  ever  since.  Among  the  stars  and  managers  who  were 
graduated  from  there  were  Harrigan  and  Hart,  Nat  Goodwin, 
Harry  Kernell,  Pat  Rooney,  Evans  and  Hoey,  Denman  Thomp 
son,  Neil  Burgess  and  W.  J.  Scanlan. 

PATTI,  Madame  Adelina  (the  Baroness  Cederstrom)  : 

Prima  donna,  was  born  in  Madrid,  Spain,  February  19,  1843V 
her  father  being  a  musician  and  her  mother  a  well-known  ope 
ratic  vocalist.  When  Patti  was  a  baby  her  parents  came  to» 
this  country,  and  the  future  prima  donna  made  her  first  ap 
pearance  in  New  York  at  Niblo's  Garden  when  she  was  sevem 
years  old.  Two  years  later  she  was  singing  at  the  old  Lyceumi 
Theatre,  at  Broadway  and  Broome  street,  between  the  acts  of: 
farces  and  extravaganzas.  At  that  time  she  was  known  as  "La. 
Petite  Adeline,"  and  was  accompanied  on  the  piano  by  Signorina. 
Eliza  Valentina,  who  was  her  singing  teacher.  She  made  her 
debut  as  an  adult  at  the  Academy  of  Music,  New  York,  in  1859. 
and  her  first  huge  success  was  made  at  Covent  Garden  Theatre, 
London,  in  "La  Sonnambula"  in  1862.  Since  then  she  has  sung 
in  all  the  capitals  of  the  world,  and  has  been  regarded  as  thQ; 


342  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

greatest  of  operatic  vocalists.  She  made  a  farewell  concert  tour 
of  this  country  in  1904,  and  in  December,  1906,  she  gave  her 
farewell  concert  at  tne  Albert  Hall,  London.  Madame  Patti  mar 
ried  the  Marquis  de  Caux  in  1868.  She  was  divorced  from  him 
and  married  Signer  Nicolini,  a  tenor  vocalist,  in  1886.  After 
his  death  she  married  the  Baron  Cederstrom  in  1899.  Her 
home  is  Craig-y-Nos  Castle,  Ystradgynlais,  Breconshire,  Wales, 
England. 

PAYNE,  William  Louis: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Elmira,  N.  Y.  He  is  the  son  of  Alfred 
T.  Payne,  an  artist,  now  living  in  New  York.  He  had  been  an 
actor  some  years  when,  on  July  13,  1906,  he  married  Mrs.  Les 
lie  Carter  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  while  on  an  automobile  trip. 
Besides  being  a  member  of  many  stock  companies  previous  to 
his  marriage,  Mr.  Payne  had  played  Orville  Baher  in  "Eben 
Holden,"  Goldarnheim  in  "Her  Majesty,"  Otto  Struble  in  "An 
American  Citizen,"  Ingomar  Cartridge  in  "Ambition,"  Mr.  Jones 
in  "David  Garrick,"  Dave  in  "In  Mizzoura,"  Winkle  in  "Mr. 
Pickwick,"  Esrom  in  "Nazareth,"  Smiley  Green  in  "Bird  Cen 
tre,"  and  Howard  Leffingwell  in  "Mrs.  Leffingwell's  Boots."  The 
season  of  1907-8  he  was  with  Mrs.  Carter  in  repertoire.  Mr. 
Payne  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs. 

PAYTON,  Corse: 

Actor  and  manager,  was  born  at  Centreville,  Iowa,  Decem 
ber  18,  1867.  He  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  at  the 
age  of  sixteen  in  the  role  of  Luke  Bloomfield  in  "Dora"  in  a 
company  made  up  entirely  of  members  of  his  own  family.  The 
organization  went  on  tour  and  was  successful  for  several  years. 
In  1890  Mr.  Payton  was  playing  the  leading  comedy  part  in 
""Larking."  The  next  season  he  organized  his  first  company  and 
up  to  1895  played  in  repertoire  through  the  Middle  West.  That 
year  he  took  his  company  East.  He  is  now  the  lessee  and  man 
ager  of  Corse  Payton's  Theatre,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

PEPLE,  Edward  Henry: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Richmond,  Va.,  August  10,  1867, 
and  was  educated  at  the  academy  of  John  P.  McGuire,  Rich 
mond,  Va.  He  began  life  as  an  accountant,  and  was  in  the  em 
ployment  of  the  American  Bridge  Company,  New  York,  when  he 
wrote  his  first  play,  "A  Broken  Rosary."  The  play  which  at 
tracted  most  attention  to  Mr.  Peple  as  a  playwright  was  "The 
Prince  Chap,"  produced  in  the  fall  of  1895,  with  Cyril  Scott  in 


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the  principal  part.  It  ran  throughout  two  seasons.  The  fall  of 
1906  "The  Love  Route,"  by  Mr.  Peple  was  produced,  and  Octo 
ber  14,  1907,  "The  Silver  Girl"  from  his  pen  was  seen  at  Wai- 
lack's  Theatre,  New  York.  Mr.  Peple's  home  is  at  132  West 
Ninety-sixth  street,  New  York. 

PHILIPS,  Augustus: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Rensselaer,  Ind.,  August  1,  1873,  and  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  of  that  place.  His  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  was  made  in  Champagne,  111.,  December  10, 
1891,  playing  Smokey  in  "Under  the  Gas  Light."  He  toured  in 
repertoire  throughout  the  West  until  1901  when  he  joined  the 
Proctor  Stock  Company  as  leading  man,  with  which  organiza 
tion  he  is  still  connected.  Mr.  Philips  is  a  member  of  the  Brook 
lyn  Elks  and  the  Green  Room  Club.  His  favorite  recreation  is 
ranching. 

PINERO,  Arthur  Wing: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  London  May  24,  1855,  being  the 
son  of  John  Daniel  Pinero,  a  lawyer.  Early  in  life  he  married 
Myra  Emily  Hamilton,  an  actress.  After  leaving  school  he 
spent  some  time  in  his  father's  office,  but  before  being  articled 
as  a  lawyer  he  decided  to  become  an  actor.  He  first  appeared 
in  1874  as  general  utility  man  in  small  parts  at  the  Theatre 
Royal,  Edinburgh,  at  five  dollars  a  week.  A  year  later  he  went 
to  London  and  appeared  at  the  Globe  Theatre.  From  1876  to 
1881  he  was  a  member  of  Henry  Irving's  company  at  the  Ly 
ceum  Theatre.  It  was  during  his  first  year  at  this  house  that 
he  wrote  his  first  playlet,  a  one-act  farce  called  "  £200  a  Year," 
the  manuscript  of  which  he  presented  to  R.  C.  Carton,  who  ob 
tained  its  production  at  the  Globe.  His  next  efforts  were  "By 
gones,"  and  "Daisy's  Escape,"  produced  in  1880,  both  of  which 
were  utilized  as  curtain  raisers  by  Mr.  Irving,  with  the  young 
author  in  the  leading  parts.  His  first  really  successful  play  was 
"The  Money  Spinner,"  produced  by  John  Hare  and  the  Kendals 
in  1880  at  the  St.  James's  Theatre,  London.  The  following  year 
he  gave  up  playing,  and  has  since  devoted  himself  to  playwrit- 
ing.  Included  in  his  works  are  "Hester's  Mystery,"  "Lords  and 
Commons,"  "In  Chancery,"  "The  Magistrate,"  "The  Hobby 
Horse,"  "Dandy  Dick,"  "Sweet  Lavender,"  "The  Profligate," 
"The  Notorious  Mrs.  Ebbsmith,"  "Lady  Bountiful,"  "The  Ama 
zons,"  "The  Gay  Lord  Quex,"  "The  Second  Mrs.  Tanqueray," 
"Iris,"  "Trelawny  of  the  Wells,"  and  "His  House  in  Order," 
produced  in  New  York  at  the  Empire  Theatre  by  John  Drew 


344  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

and   company   in   September,   1906.     Mr.   Pinero's  home   address 
is  14  Hanover  square,  London,  W. 

PLYMPTON,  Eben: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  on  February  7,  1853.  After 
leaving  school  he  held  a  position  as  bookkeeper  on  the  Boston 
Post,  devoting  most  of  his  leisure  time  to  amateur  theatrical 
performances.  He  overtaxed  his  strength  and  was  sent  to  Cali 
fornia  to  regain  his  health.  While  there  he  obtained  his  first 
professional  engagement,  with  Joseph  Proctor,  and  made  his 
debut  in  Stockton,  Cal.,  and  then  played  a  season  at  Sacramento. 
There  he  gained  a  wide  experience  in  acting,  appearing  fre 
quently  in  five  plays  a  week.  Then  he  was  engaged  by  John 
McCullough  for  leading  juvenile  parts  at  the  California  Theatre 
in  San  Francisco.  Subsequently  he  played  juvenile  parts  at  the 
Park  Theatre  in  Brooklyn,  and  from  there  was  transferred  to 
the  Wallack  Stock  Company  in  New  York,  with  which  he  re 
mained  two  seasons.  On  November  23,  1875,  he  made  his  ap 
pearance  in  the  Union  Square  Theatre  as  Andre  in  ''Rose  Mi 
chel,"  and  he  also  appeared  in  this  house  in  support  of  John 
T.  Raymond  in  "The  Gilded  Age"  as  Clay  Hawkins.  Next  sea 
son  he  acted  as  the  chief  support  of  Adelaide  Neilson,  playing 
among  other  roles  Romeo  to  her  Juliet;  Sebastian  in  "Twelfth 
Night,"  and  Leonatus  in  "Cymbeline."  He  supported  Lawrence 
Barrett  during  a  part  of  a  season,  and  wras  the  original  Lord 
Travers  in  "Hazel  Kirke,"  which  had  such  a  successful  run  at 
the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York.  A  long  tour  in  Eng 
land  with  the  celebrated  Kate  Bateman  followed.  He  then  re 
turned  to  America  and  resumed  the  leading  man's  position  at 
the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  appearing  as  Dave  Hardy  in  "Es- 
meralda."  In  the  spring  of  1882  he  went  to  London,  playing 
opposite  parts  to  Edwin  Booth,  and  toured  America  the  follow 
ing  season  with  Mr.  Booth.  He  was  the  leading  support  of  Mary 
Anderson  in  1877  during  her  first  engagement  in  New  York  at 
the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre.  Among  more  recent  engagements 
Mr.  Plympton  has  played  Philip  II  of  Spain  in  "The  Palace  of 
the  King,"  Master  Walter  in  an  all-star  cast  of  "The  Hunch 
back,"  Mercutio  in  an  all-star  cast  of  "Romeo  and  Juliet,"  Sir 
Harcourt  Courtleigh  in  "London  Assurance,"  and  the  Bishop  in 
the  production  of  "The  Duel"  at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New  York. 
The  season  of  1907-8  he  appeared  in  Booth  Tarkington's  "The 
Man  from  Home."  In  the  all-star  cast  which  presented  "Ham 
let"  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House  in  1888,  as  a  testimonial 
to  Lester  Wallack,  he  played  the  part  of  Laertes.  His  home  is 
at  Silver  Lake,  Plymouth  County,  Mass. 


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POLLOCK,  Charming: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  March  4,  1880, 
and  was  educated  at  the  Bethel  Military  Academy  of  Virginia 
and  the  Polytechnique,  Prague,  Austria.  He  began  life  as  a 
newspaper  man  on  the  Washington  Post  and  Times,  and  then 
became  press  agent  for  William  A.  Brady,  the  Shuberts  and 
others.  He  is  the  author  of  a  novel  called  "Behold  the  Man," 
and  many  magazine  stories.  His  original  plays  are  "A  Game 
of  Hearts,"  "The  Little  Gray  Lady,"  and  "Napoleon  the  Great" 
He  dramatized  the  novels  "The  Pit,"  "In  the  Bishop's  Carriage,'' 
and  "The  Secret  Orchard,"  produced  in  the  fall  of  1907;  and  he- 
is  part  author  of  "Clothes,"  produced  by  Miss  Grace  George  at 
the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1906.  Mr.  Pollock  mar 
ried  Miss  Anna  Marble,  a  well-known  writer,  August  9,  1906.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  American  Dramatists',  the  Green  Room  and 
the  American  Yacht  clubs. 

POST,  Guy  Bates: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Seattle,  Washington,  in  1875,  his  fa 
ther  being  of  English  and  his  mother  of  Dutch  parentage. 
His  sister,  Madeline  Post,  is  a  well-known  actress,  having  played 
in  Charles  Frohman's  companies.  Mr.  Post  had  an  early  lean 
ing  toward  the  stage  and  made  many  appearances  as  an  ama 
teur,  his  first  being  in  the  part  of  Cassius  in  "Julius  Ca3sar"  at 
a  performance  given  by  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church  in  San 
Francisco.  He  made  his  stage  debut  in  Chicago  in  1893  at  the 
Schiller  Theatre  as  the  Printer  in  the  production  of  "Charlotte 
Corday,"  by  Kyrle  Bellew  and  Mrs.  James  Brown  Potter.  He 
made  his  first  marked  success  in  the  role  of  Robert  Rockett  in 
"My  Lady  Dainty,"  by  Madeleine  Lucette  Ryley,  with  Herbert 
Kelcey  and  Effie  Shannon  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New 
York.  Following  this  he  appeared  successively  as  Captain  Stuart 
in  Richard  Harding  Davis's  "Soldiers  of  Fortune,"  Steve  in 
Owen  Wister  and  Kirke  La  Shelle's  "The  Virginian,"  in  Clyde 
Fitch's  "The  Marriage  Game,"  "The  Bird  in  the  Cage,"  and 
"Major  Andre";  "A  Rose  o'  Plymouth,"  by  Evelyn  Greenleaf 
Sutherland  and  Beulah  Marie  Dix;  as  Joe  Lacy  in  Paul  Arm 
strong's  "Heir  to  the  Hoorah,"  and  in  a  production  of  "Manon 
Lescaut"  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York.  His  most  marked 
achievements  have  been  in  his  roles  in  "The  Virginian,"  "Sol 
diers  of  Fortune,"  "My  Lady  Dainty,"  and  "The  Heir  to  the 
Hoorah,"  in  the  last  named  of  which  he  went  on  tour  the  fall 
season  of  1906.  He  married  Sarah  Truax,  a  well-known  actress, 
in  1897.  A  divorce  followed.  He  is  an  accomplished  pianist  and 
linguist  and  an  adept  at  all  athletic  sports.  One  of  his  boasts 


346  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

is  that  he  never  rides  in  an  elevator.     He  is  a  member  of  The 
Lambs  and  The  Players,  New  York. 

POTTER,  Mrs,  James  Brown  (Cora  Urquhart) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  Orleans,  where  her  family  was 
socially  prominent,  her  father  being  Colonel  David  Urquhart.  It 
was  not  until  after  her  marriage  to  James  Brown  Potter,  of 
New  York,  the  son  of  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  wealthy 
citizens  of  the  metropolis,  that  she  took  up  amateur  theatricals. 
Her  striking  looks  and  the  elegance  of  her  gowns,  coupled  with 
native  ability,  combined  to  attract  attention  to  her  work,  and 
it  was  not  long  before  she  sought  the  professional  stage.  She 
made  her  debut  in  London,  at  the  Haymarket  Theatre,  March 
29,  1887,  as  Anne  Sylvester  in  "Man  and  Wife,"  by  Wilkie  Col 
lins,  appearing  to  such  advantage  that  she  received  a  note  of 
congratulation  from  the  author.  From  the  Haymarket  she  went 
to  the  Gaiety,  where  she  appeared  in  "Civil  War"  and  "Loyal 
Love."  She  then  returned  to  her  native  land,  and  six  months 
after  her  first  London  appearance  made  her  American  debut. 
She  toured  America  for  two  years,  playing  as  a  star  and  sup 
ported  by  Kyrle  Bellew,  included  in  her  repertoire  being  "Romeo 
and  Juliet,"  Pauline  in  "The  Lady  of  Lyons,"  Kate  Hardcastle 
in  "She  Stoops  to  Conquer,"  "Camille,"  and  "Antony  and  Cleo 
patra."  In  March,  1890,  she  made  her  first  Australian  tour,  in 
which  she  added  "La  Tosca"  and  "Margaret  Gautier"  to  her 
roles.  From  Australia  she  went  to  India,  China  and  Japan,  Mr. 
Bellew  still  being  her  leading  man.  She  then  returned  to  Lon 
don,  and  after  playing  a  short  season,  in  which  she  appeared  in 
"Charlotte  Corday,"  "Hero  and  Leander,"  and  "Francillon,"  she 
made  another  American  tour.  She  went  to  Australia  in  1897  for 
the  second  time.  She  returned  to  London  the  same  year,  to  ap 
pear  at  the  Haymarket  as  Miladi  in  "The  Musketeers."  In  1901 
she  created  the  role  of  Calypso  in  Stephen  Phillips's  "Ulysses. "  In 
1904  she  leased  the  Savoy  Theatre,  London,  and  produced  there, 
with  Gilbert  Hare,  dramatic  versions  of  "Pagliacci"  and  "Caval- 
leria  Rusticana."  The  venture  was  a  failure.  She  has  recently 
been  seen  in  vaudeville  houses  in  London.  She  separated  from 
her  husband  early  in  her  professional  career,  and  in  1903  the 
courts  of  New  York  dissolved  the  marriage.  They  had  one  child, 
whose  custody  was  given  to  Mr.  Potter. 

POTTER,  Paul  M. : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Brighton,  England,  June  2,  1853. 
and  began  life  as  a  newspaper  man.  From  1881  to  1887  he  was 
on  the  staff  of  the  New  York  Herald  as  foreign  editor,  London 


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correspondent  and  dramatic  critic.  He  was  afterward  associated 
with  the  Chicago  Tribune.  His  first  play  was  produced  in  May, 
1889.  It  was  "The  City  Directory."  Since  then  he  has  written 
"'The  Ugly  Duckling,"  in  which  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  took  part,  in 
1890;  "The  World's  Fair,"  in  1891;  "The  American  Minister," 
for  W.  H.  Crane,  in  1892;  "Sheridan;  or,  The  Maid  of  Bath," 
for  Sothern,  in  1893;  "Our  Country  Cousins,"  in  1893;  "The 
Pacific  Mail,"  for  Crane,  in  1894,  and  "The  Victoria  Cross,"  pro 
duced  in  1894.  He  adapted  "Trilby"  for  the  American  stage, 
and  it  was  first  produced  at  the  Park  Theatre,  Boston,  March  13, 
1896,  with  Wilton  Lackaye  and  Virginia  Harned  in  the  principal 
parts.  His  other  plays  and  the  dates  of  their  production  are: 
"The  Stag  Party,"  1896;  "The  Conquerors,"  1898;  "Under  Two 
Flags,"  1901;  "The  Red  Kloof,"  1902;  "Notre  Dame,"  and  "The 
Schoolgirl,"  1904. 

POWELL,  Edward  Soldene: 

Actor  and  stage  manager,  was  born  in  London,  England, 
February  28,  1865,  being  the  son  of  John  Powell  and  Emily  Sol- 
dene  (Powell),  an  English  actress.  He  was  educated  at  private 
schools  and  at  King's  College,  London.  His  first  stage  appear 
ance  was  made  in  1886  at  the  Drury  Lane  Theatre,  London,  in 
"A  Run  of  Luck."  Then  followed  two  years  as  stage  manager 
with  David  Henderson  and  one  year  with  the  Boston  Ideals. 
He  left  the  stage-managing  business  and  took  up  acting  again, 
appearing  for  two  seasons  in  "The  Foundling"  under  Charles 
Frohman's  management,  one  season  in  "What  Happened  to 
Jones,"  five  seasons  with  William  Gillette  in  "Sherlock  Holmes'' 
and  "The  Admirable  Crichton,"  a  season  with  William  H.  Crane, 
and  that  of  1907-8  was  seen  in  "My  Wife"  with  John  Drew,  pro 
duced  at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New  York,  August  31,  1907.  Mr. 
Powell  married  Harriet  Aubrey  in  1897.  His  favorite  pastime  is 
agriculture. 

POWER,  Tyrone: 

Actor,  was  born  in  London  in  1869.  His  father,  Harold 
Power,  has  long  been  identified  with  stage  affairs  in  London, 
and  his  grandfather,  Tyrone  Power,  who  lost  his  life  in  the  sink 
ing  of  the  steamer  President  in  1841,  was  a  well-known  Irish 
comedian.  Tyrone  Power  made  his  stage  debut  November  29^ 
1886,  at  St.  Augustine,  Fla.,  as  Gibson  in  "The  Private  Secre 
tary."  Later  he  played  with  Madame  Janauschek,  and  soon  aft 
erward  became  a  member  of  Augustin  Daly's  company.  For  ten 
years  he  received  the  training  that  has  made  many  actors  fa 
mous,  playing  both  minor  and  major  parts  in  the  New  York 


348  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

productions  of  the  noted  manager.  After  Mr.  Daly's  death  Mr. 
Power  starred  in  Australia,  and  in  July,  1902,  he  played  a  special 
engagement  with  Sir  Henry  Irving  in  London.  The  same  year 
he  played  Judas  Iscariot  in  Mrs.  Fiske's  production  of  "Mary 
of  Magdala"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  making  in  that  role 
one  of  the  chief  successes  of  his  career.  He  next  was  starred 
by  Charles  Frohman  as  Ulysses  in  his  production  of  Stephen 
Phillips's  drama  of  that  name  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York. 
The  season  of  1904-5  he  appeared  as  Arkissus  in  David  Belsaco's 
production  of  "Adrea"  at  the  Belasco  Theatre,  New  York,  with 
Mrs.  Leslie  Carter.  In  1906  he  was  seen  as  Lonowanda  in  "The 
Redskin"  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York,  and  he  was  lead 
ing  man  with  Henrietta  Crosman  in  "The  Christian  Pilgrim,'' 
produced  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York,  November  11,  1907. 
Mr.  Power  married  Miss  Edith  Crane,  an  actress,  in  1898.  His 
home  is  at  58  West  Sixty-eighth  street,  New  York. 

POWERS,  James  T. : 

Comedian,  was  born  in  New  York  April  26,  1862,  and  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  there.  He  was  a  Western  Union 
messenger  boy  for  a  time  and  also  a  clerk  in  a  tea  store.  His 
first  stage  venture  was  with  a  minstrel  troupe,  which  gave  one 
performance  in  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  and  walked  home.  His 
next  venture  was  at  Long  Branch,  N.  J.,  where,  in  May,  1878, 
he  did  a  knockabout  song  and  dance  in  a  variety  hall.  He  then 
formed  a  partnership  with  James  Carney  and  did  vaudeville 
turns  for  two  years.  Then  he  played  a  season  in  stock  at  the 
Eighth  Street  Theatre,  New  York.  In  1882  Mr.  Powers  played 
the  Policeman  in  "Evangeline."  This  was  practically  his  first 
appearance  as  a  comedian  on  the  legitimate  stage.  He  after 
ward  played  Chip  in  "Dreams"  with  Willie  Edouin,  and  Grimes 
in  "A  Bunch  of  Keys."  He  went  to  London  with  Edouin  the 
following  year,  and  after  a  season  at  the  Avenue  Theatre  toured 
with  the  Vokes  family.  He  was  in  a  revival  of  "Chilperic"  at 
the  Empire  Theatre,  London,  and  played  the  Emperor  of  Moroc 
co  in  the  1884-5  pantomime  of  "Whittington  and  His  Cat"  at  the 
Drury  Lane  Theatre.  Returning  to  this  country  in  1885,  he 
played  Rats  in  "A  Tin  Soldier"  for  two  years,  and  in  1887 
joined  the  New  York  Casino  Theatre  Company,  his  first  part 
being  Briolet  in  "The  Marquis."  In  this  role  he  made  his  first 
big  success.  Succeeding  roles  were  Farragas  in  "Nadjy,"  Jack 
Point  in  "The  Yeomen  of  the  Guard,"  Gravolet  in  "The  Drum 
Major,"  and  Cadeaux  in  a  revival  of  "Erminie."  Mr.  Powers'^ 
first  starring  venture  was  with  "A  Straight  Tip"  in  1890.  This 
was  followed  by  "A  Mad  Bargain,"  "Walker,  London,"  by  J.  M. 


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Barrie,  and  "The  New  Boy,"  by  Arthur  Law,  after  which,  in 
1897,  he  joined  the  Daly  musical  comedy  company,  playing 
Augustus  Biggs  in  "The  Circus  Girl,"  the  Chinaman  in  "The 
Geisha,"  and  Flipper  in  "A  Runaway  Girl,"  in  which  part  he 
made  one  of  the  chief  successes  of  his  career.  More  recent  plays 
in  which  he  has  been  featured  are  "The  Messenger  Boy,"  and 
"The  Jewel  of  Asia."  From  1905  to  1908  he  starred  in  "The 
Blue  Moon"  under  the  management  of  the  Shuberts. 

PRIEST,  Miss  Janet  (Mrs.  Thomas  Robb,  Jr.) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  East  Lowell,  Me.,  November  26,  1881. 
She  was  educated  at  the  East  High  School,  Minneapolis,  Minn., 
and  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Minnesota  with  the 
degree  of  B.  L.  For  some  time  she  was  dramatic  and  literary 
editor  of  the  Minneapolis  Tribune.  She  made  her  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  November  30,  1904,  as  Bob  in  "A  Little  Out 
cast"  at  Alexandria,  Ind.,  under  the  management  of  J.  D.  Bar 
ton.  The  seasons  of  1905-6-7  Miss  Priest  was  with  the  Carle 
Amusement  Company,  playing  Muggsy  in  "The  Maid  and  the 
Mummy."  In  the  spring  of  1907  she  played  May  Flood,  the 
deacon's  daughter,  in  "His  Honor  the  Mayor"  under  the  man 
agement  of  Alfred  E.  Aarons.  Miss  Priest  was  married  to 
Thomas  Robb,  Jr.,  June  11,  1907.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Delta 
Delta  Delta  Greek  letter  society.  Her  favorite  recreations  are 
swimming  and  writing.  Her  summer  home  is  at  Port  Washing 
ton,  Long  Island. 

PRINCE,  Miss  Adelaide  (Mrs.  Creston  Clarke) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  London,  England,  her  family  name  be 
ing  Rubenstein.  She  was  brought  to  America  when  a  child, 
her  parents  settling  in  Texas.  She  lived  for  a  short  while  in 
Galveston,  taking  an  active  part  in  amateur  theatrical  enter 
tainments  thereabouts,  and  in  1888  came  to  New  York  to  seek 
employment  on  the  professional  stage.  She  made  her  first  ap 
pearance  in  "A  Possible  Case"  under  the  management  of  J.  M. 
Hill,  in  which  she  attracted  the  attention  of  Augustin  Daly,  and 
during  the  season  of  1889-90  was  seen  in  his  company,  where 
she  remained  four  years,  playing  such  parts  as  Lady  Twombley 
in  "The  Cabinet  Minister,"  Olivia  in  "The  Twelfth  Night,"  and 
Maria  in  "Love's  Labor  Lost."  Following  her  engagement  with 
this  organization  she  appeared  for  a  season  in  "The  Prodigal 
Daughter,"  and  then  became  leading  woman  with  Creston  Clarke. 
In  1901  Miss  Prince  supported  Viola  Allen,  and  the  following 
year  was  with  Ethel  Barrymore  in  "The  Country  Mouse."  She 


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has  also  been  seen  in  "Ulysses"  with  Tyrone  Power  and  Rose 
Coghlan,  "Glittering  Gloria,"  and  on  tour  with  "The  Other  Girl." 
The  season  of  1906-7  she  appeared  with  William  Gillette  in 
"Clarice,"  produced  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York.  In  1907 
she  was  seen  in  Channing  Pollock's  "The  Secret  Orchard."  Miss 
Prince  married  Creston  Clarke  April  17,  1895. 

PKOCTOK,  Miss  Cathrine: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Ottawa,  Canada,  and  educated  in  To 
ronto.  When  only  nine  years  old  she  appeared  at  concerts  as 
a  dramatic  reader,  and  while  yet  attending  school  she  studied 
elocution  under  various  masters.  Her  first  instructor  was  Fran 
cis  Brown.  In  1896  she  received  a  scholarship  from  Dr.  Carlyle 
of  the  dramatic  department  of  Toronto  College  of  Music,  and 
the  following  year  won  the  prize  offered  by  Dr.  Neff,  of  the  Neff 
College  of  Oratory,  for  the  best  reader  in  the  Toronto  schools. 
In  1899  Miss  Proctor,  in  conjunction  with  H.  N.  Shaw,  principal 
of  the  dramatic  class  of  the  Toronto  College  of  Music,  appeared 
in  many  amateur  dramatic  productions,  her  first  part  being 
Hermia  in  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream"  at  the  Hallowe'en 
performances  given  by  the  students  of  the  University  of  Toronto. 
By  a  curious  coincidence  she  made  her  first  important  New  York 
appearance  in  the  same  part.  In  June,  1900,  Miss  Proctor  won 
the  gold  medal  for  the  highest  honors  in  Mr.  Shaw's  class.  The 
same  summer,  while  still  in  her  'teens,  she  was  engaged  for  a 
small  part  in  "L'Aiglon"  with  the  Maude  Adams  company,  and1 
eventually  played  Therese  de  Loget  the  bulk  of  the  season.  That 
was  her  first  appearance  on  the  professional  stage.  In  1902  Miss 
Proctor  played  ingenues  in  a  stock  company  touring  Canada,  and 
the  summer  of  1903  was  with  a  stock  company  in  Birmingham, 
Ala.  In  1904  she  became  leading  woman  to  Maude  Adams  in 
"The  Pretty  Sister  of  Jose,"  and  the  following  season  she  was 
with  Charles  Frohman's  "The  Other  Girl"  company.  She  was 
general  understudy  during  the  opening  season  of  "Peter  Pan" 
at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New  York,  and  in  1906-7  played  Hermia 
with  Annie  Russell  in  the  production  of  "A  Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,"  which  opened  the  Astor  Theatre,  New  York,  September 
12,  1906.  In  this  Miss  Proctor  made  a  remarkable  success,  the- 
New  York  critics  being  unanimous  in  praise  of  her  acting,  espe 
cially  in  the  quarrel  scene.  On  January  18,  1908,  she  was  seen 
in  the  leading  role  in  Paul  Armstrong's  "Society  and  the  Bull 
dog"  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York.  Miss  Proctor's  sister  Maud  is 
also  an  actress.  Her  permanent  address  is  43  Sumach  street,, 
Toronto,  Canada. 


CATHRINB    PROCTOR 


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PROCTOR,  David: 

Actor,  was  born  in  1878  and  was  graduated  from  one  of  the 
dramatic  schools  in  New  York.  He  made  his  first  professional 
appearance  with'  Miss  Mary  Mannering  in  1902,  taking  a  part 
in  "The  Stubbornness  of  Geraldine."  During  the  two  seasons 
he  was  with  Miss  Mannering  he  created  the  role  of  Lieutenant 
Von  Bern  in  "Harriet's  Honeymoon."  The  next  year  found  Mr. 
Proctor  in  the  support  of  Amelia  Bingham,  playing  general  busi 
ness,  but  before  the  season's  close  he  was  cast  for  the  lead  of 
Edward  Warden  in  "The  Climbers."  He  also  appeared  for  a 
time  with  Herbert  Kelcey  and  Efne  Shannon  in  vaudeville.  The 
seasons  of  1905-6-7  Mr.  Proctor  embarked  upon  a  starring  tour 
in  "A  Message  from  Mars,"  visiting  that  territory  left  untouched 
by  Charles  Hawtrey.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  supported  May 
Robson  in  "The  Rejuvenation  of  Aunt  Mary." 

PROCTOR,  F.  F.: 

Vaudeville  manager,  is  a  native  of  Maine.  He  has  been  a 
leading  manager  of  vaudeville  for  thirty-one  years,  and  during 
that  time  has  succeeded  in  obtaining  control  of  a  great  number 
of  the  prominent  vaudeville  artists  who  make  tours  of  the  United 
States.  He  began  business  in  a  small  way,  but  gradually  ex 
tended  his  connections  until,  in  1890,  he  was  in  control  of  a 
circuit  of  twelve  leading  theatres  in  all  parts  of  the  country. 
In  1889  he  built  his  theatre  in  Twenty-third  street,  New  York, 
just  off  Sixth  avenue,  and  ran  it  as  a  legitimate  house  until 
1892,  when  he  changed  its  policy  to  the  presentation  of  continu 
ous  vaudeville,  on  which  lines  it  has  been  successfully  run  ever 
since.  In  1895  he  opened  the  Pleasure  Palace  in  East  Fifty- 
eighth  street  and  Third  avenue,  which  is  one  of  the  largest 
theatres  in  the  city.  This  house  was  built  especially  for  Mr. 
Proctor.  In  1900  he  obtained  a  lease  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Thea 
tre,  Broadway  and  Twenty-eighth  street,  and  this  house  has  been 
managed  by  him  since.  In  1906  he  made  a  combination  with 
B.  F.  Keith,  his  most  formidable  rival  in  the  vaudeville  field, 
and  the  theatres  now  conducted  by  Keith  &  Proctor  are  the 
Fifth  Avenue,  Union  Square,  Twenty-third  Street,  Fifty-eighth 
Street,  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fifth  Street,  and  Harlem  Opera 
House,  New  York  City.  The  houses  under  F.  F.  Proctor's  in 
dividual  control  are  Proctor's  Newark  (N.  J.)  Theatre,  Proctor's 
Albany  Theatre  and  Proctor's  Troy  Theatre,  New  York  State. 

PRUETTE,  William: 

Actor  and  singer,  was  born  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  and  made 
his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  at  McVicker's  Theatre,  Chi- 


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cago,  singing  a  small  part  in  Italian  opera  with  Madame  Patti. 
At  that  time  he  was  known  as  Signer  Pruetti,  and  under  that 
name  he  appeared  in  Paris.  Returning  to  this  country,  he 
joined  the  Emma  Abbott  Opera  Company,  singing  all  the  leading 
baritone  roles  in  a  wide  range  of  grand  operas.  He  also  ap 
peared  with  success  as  Mazouk  in  "Girofle  Girofla."  Mr.  Pruette 
created  the  part  of  Alfio  in  "Cavalleria  Rusticana"  on  its  first 
production  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York.  He  was  with  the 
Bostonians  some  time,  playing  the  title  part  in  "Robin  Hood," 
and  he  has  sung  in  many  hundreds  of  light  operas.  His  more 
recent  engagements  were  with  Fritzi  Scheff  in  "Mile.  Modiste'' 
and  in  the  Shubert  production  of  "The  Tourists." 


,  Miss  Gertrude: 
Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  Vermont  and  was  educated 
in  Boston,  where  she  made  her  first  stage  appearance  with  the 
Castle  Square  Opera  Company.  After  singing  in  the  chorus 
some  years  she  rose  to  be  principal  soubrette  of  that  organiza 
tion.  She  made  her  first  success  as  Annette  in  "King  Dodo" 
under  the  management  of  Henry  W.  Savage  in  1901,  following 
this  by  playing  Chiquita  in  "The  Sultan  of  Sulu"  during  its 
long  run  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  and  for  two  full  sea 
sons.  The  seasons  of  1904-5-6-7  she  played  Flora  Wiggins  in 
"The  College  Widow."  The  season  of  1907-8  she  appeared  as 
Honour  in  "Tom  Jones,"  opening  at  the  Astor  Theatre,  New 
York,  November  11,  1907. 

EAWLSTON,  Miss  Zelma: 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  New  York  City  and  edu 
cated  at  the  public  schools  there  and  in  Europe.  She  was  a 
church  singer  before  joining  the  chorus  at  the  Casino  Theatre, 
New  York,  where  she  made  her  first  appearance.  She  afterward 
appeared  in  "Nadjy,"  and  as  Susie  Miller  in  "The  Hustler,"  and 
Queen  Titania  in  "The  Brownies."  Miss  Rawlston  first  attracted 
attention  as  a  male  impersonator,  and  became  known  as  "The 
American  Vesta  Tilly."  She  appeared  as  Little  Billie  in  "Thril- 
by,"  a  burlesque  of  "Trilby,"  and  then  made  a  pronounced  suc 
cess  as  the  Infanta  in  "1492."  She  then  devoted  much  of  her 
time  to  vaudeville.  In  1900-1  Miss  Rawlston  was  the  Willie  Van 
Astorbilt  in  "The  Burgomaster"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New 
York,  and  in  1904  she  was  featured  in  "Louisiana,"  which  ran 
twenty  weeks  at  the  St.  Louis  Exposition.  The  seasons  of  1905- 
6-7  she  played  Liza  Shodham,  with  Eddie  Foy,  in  "The  Earl 
and  the  Girl."  Miss  Rawlston's  favorite  recreations  are  fishing, 
sailing,  swimming  and  traveling. 


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RANDOLPH,  Miss  Louise: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  and  was  educated 
in  Boston,  Mass.,  where  she  made  her  first  stage  appearance, 
playing  small  parts  with  the  Castle  Square  Stock  Company.  In 
1900  she  played  Ottilie  in  "At  the  White  Horse  Tavern."  Then 
followed  an  engagement  in  "Lover's  Lane"  under  the  manage 
ment  of  W.  A.  Brady,  and  two  more  seasons  in  stock  companies 
at  Boston  and  Albany,  N.  Y.,  after  which  she  played  in  "Foxy 
Grandpa"  and  in  "The  Player  Maid."  The  season  of  1905-6  Miss 
Randolph  was  in  "The  Genius  and  the  Model"  with  Henry 
Woodruff,  and  when  Nat  Goodwin  acquired  that  play  she  went 
to  the  Proctor  Stock  Company  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre, 
New  York.  The  season  of  1906-7  she  again  appeared  in  "The 
Genius"  with  Nat  Goodwin  at  the  Bijou  Theatre,  New  York; 
then  again  joined  the  Proctor  forces,  being  a  member  of  the 
Harlem  Stock  Company  throughout  the  season  of  1907-8. 

RANDOLPH,  Miss  Virginia: 

Actress,  was  born  near  Charleston,  S.  C.,  in  1882,  and  was 
educated  at  a  convent  founded  and  endowed  by  her  ancestors  in 
that  State.  Before  going  on  the  stage  she  was  prominent  in 
social  circles  in  the  South,  and  made  such  a  pronounced  success 
as  an  amateur  actress  that  she  determined  to  adopt  the  stage 
as  a  profession.  After  a  few  engagements  with  companies  tour 
ing  the  South,  she  went  to  New  York  and  for  two  years  studied 
for  the  stage.  She  made  her  first  professional  appearance  in 
Mrs.  Fiske's  production  of  "Marta  of  the  Lowlands."  The  fol 
lowing  season  she  was  in  Mme.  Modjeska's  company  on  the  Pa 
cific  Coast.  The  spring  of  1907  she  was  a  member  of  a  stock 
company  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  and  the  season  of  1907-8  she  played 
the  leading  ingenue  role  in  "The  Heart  of  Maryland"  under  the 
management  of  David  Belasco.  Her  home  is  in  Charleston,  S.  C. 

RANKIN,  Arthur  McKee: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Sandwich,  Canada,  in  1841.  His  first 
appearance  was  made  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  under  the  stage  name 
of  George  Henley.  Five  years  later  he  appeared  in  London, 
England,  at  the  Olympic  Theatre,  under  his  own  name.  He 
made  his  New  York  debut  as  Johnny  Reilly  in  "The  Long 
Strike,"  and,  after  being  seen  at  Niblo's  Garden  with  the  late 
Lydia  Thompson  in  "Mosquito"  in  1870,  he  became  leading  man 
at  the  Union  Square  Theatre,  retaining  that  position  until  1875. 
On  August  22,  1877,  he  produced  "The  Danites,"  playing  the 
part  of  Alexander  McGee,  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York. 
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success.  He  became  manager  of  the  Third  Avenue  Theatre,  New 
York,  in  1883,  and  four  years  later  was  seen  in  "The  Golden 
Giant."  He  produced  "The  Canuck"  in  1890,  "A  Kentucky 
Colonel"  in  1902,  and  his  own  play,  "True  to  Life,"  in  1896. 
Subsequently  he  was  seen  in  "A  Bachelor's  Baby,"  and  "Captain 
Imprudence."  In  1898  he  became  manager  for  Miss  Nance  O'Neill, 
elevating  her  to  the  position  of  a  star  and  supporting  her  in 
Shakespearian  and  other  productions.  Together  they  have  toured 
nearly  all  the  English-speaking  countries  of  the  world.  The 
season  of  1907-8  Mr.  Rankin  and  Miss  O'Neill  were  seen  in 
Shakespearian  duologues  in  vaudeville  houses  in  this  country. 
Mr.  Rankin  is  the  father  of  Miss  Phyllis  Rankin  (Mrs.  Harry 
Davenport),  the  well-known  actress. 

RANKIN,  Phyllis  (Mrs,  Harry  Davenport) : 

Actress,  is  the  daughter  of  McKee  Rankin  and  went  on  the 
stage,  when  she  was  ten  years  old,  as  the  child  in  "Storm- 
beaten"  with  her  father's  company.  She  did  not  reappear  until 
she  was  sixteen,  when  she  played  in  "Sarah"  at  Wallack's  Thea 
tre  in  New  York.  Then  she  joined  the  Rose  Coghlan  company, 
and  afterward  supported  Mrs.  John  Drew  in  "The  Rivals"  and 
other  old  English  comedies.  After  gaining  stage  experience  she 
rejoined  her  father  in  a  play  called  "The  Canuck,"  and  then 
played  in  "The  Danites"  with  him.  She  is  the  only  woman  who 
ever  played  the  title  role  in  "An  Artful  Dodger."  When  she  was 
nineteen  she  married  Harry  Davenport,  the  actor.  She  created 
the  part  of  Fifi  in  "The  Belle  of  New  York,"  and  in  this  she 
made  a  distinctive  hit  in  London.  She  has  since  chiefly  been 
seen  in  "Glad  of  It,"  "It  Happened  in  Nordland,"  "Wolfville," 
and  "Glittering  Gloria." 

RANNEY,  Frank: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston  August  6,  1863,  being  the  son  oC 
Richard  and  Catherine  Ranney.  He  founded  the  Hyde  Park 
(Mass.)  Dramatic  Club  in  1880,  and  appeared  with  that  organi- 
zation  in  many  amateur  performances.  His  first  professional 
appearance  was  in  the  chorus  of  "Ruddygore"  at  the  Globe  Thea 
tre,  Boston,  under  the  management  of  John  Stetson.  His  first 
important  role  was  that  of  Rocco  in  "The  Mascot"  with  the 
Boston  Gayety  Opera  Company.  In  the  last  twenty-two  years  he 
has  been  with  only  four  managers — John  Stetson,  George  A. 
Baker,  Bessie  Bonehill  and  Henry  W.  Savage — and  has  appeared 
in  all  kinds  of  parts  in  125  comic  operas  in  all  sections  of  the 
country.  He  has  been  stage  manager  for  Henry  W.  Savage  for 
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RAY,  Miss  Ruby: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Buenos  Ayres,  South  America,  and  be 
gan  her  stage  career  as  a  dancer  at  the  Avenue  Theatre,  Lon 
don,  England.  She  later  toured  with  Charles  Hawtrey  through 
Australia,  and  then  was  seen  as  Iris  in  "A  Greek  Slave,"  mak 
ing  her  first  marked  success.  The  season  of  1904-5  she  appeared 
as  Minnie  Templer  in  "A  Message  from  Mars"  with  Charles  Haw- 
trey,  and  the  following  year  as  Daisy  Armytage  in  "Three  Little 
Maids."  She  also  played  the  roles  of  the  Duchess  in  "The 
Catch  of  the  Season,"  and  Lady  Rosaline  in  "The  Belle  of  May- 
fair,"  all  in  London.  Late  in  the  season  of  1906-7  she  was  with 
Grace  George  in  "Divorgons"  in  London,  and  the  season  of  1907-8 
appeared  in  "The  Dairymaids,"  opening  at  the  Criterion  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  August  25,  1907. 

RAYE,  Miss  Thelma : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Rio  de  Janeiro,  South  America,  and  was 
educated  in  Liverpool,  England.  She  made  her  first  appearance 
in  1905  in  "The  Little  Michus"  under  George  Edwardes's  man 
agement,  understudying  Miss  Denise  Orme  in  the  role  of  Marie 
Blanche.  She  learned  the  violin,  that  she  might  be  able  to  sing 
and  play  her  own  obligato  if  called  upon  to  take  Miss  Orme's 
part.  Pleased  with  her  enthusiasm,  Mr.  Edwardes  sent  her  on 
tour  in  the  leading  role  of  that  play  at  the  end  of  the  season. 
Subsequently  she  succeeded  May  De  Sousa  in  the  revival  of 
"The  Geisha"  at  Daly's  Theatre,  London.  Then  she  appeared 
as  Pervenche  in  "The  Merveilleuses"  on  tour,  and  as  the  Prin 
cess  in  "The  New  Aladdin"  at  the  Gaiety  Theatre,  London,  Eng 
land.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  seen  in  "The  Dairymaids," 
opening  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New  York,  August  25,  1907. 

RAYMONDS,  Miss  Frankie  (Mrs.  David  Henderson)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1874.  When  a  child 
she  evinced  an  aptitude  for  the  stage,  appearing  in  amateur 
theatricals,  and  finally  attracted  the  attention  of  David  Hender 
son  who,  in  1890,  was  organizing  a  company  for  the  production 
of  Gilbert  and  Sullivan's  "Gondoliers."  She  obtained  a  place  in 
the  chorus,  and  after  a  few  weeks  the  management  intrusted 
her  with  a  small  part.  In  the  following  year  she  played  a  part 
in  the  American  Extravaganza  Company,  and  before  the  season 
was  over  appeared  as  the  principal  boy  and  principal  girl,  which 
she  continued  to  play  for  three  years.  She  then  entered  larger 
fields  and  has  successfully  played  many  parts,  among  them  being 
Josephine  in  "The  Lottery  of  Love,"  Susan  in  "Held  by  the 
Enemy,"  Edith  in  "Young  Mrs.  Winthrop,"  Mrs.  Echo  in  "A 


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Crust  of  Society,"  Susanne  in  "A  Scrap  of  Paper,"  Mrs.  De 
Peyster  in  "The  Charity  Ball,"  Meg  in  "Lord  Chumley,"  Belinda 
in  "Our  Boys,"  and  Sophie  in  the  musical  comedy  "A  Country 
Girl."  She  also  successfully  played  in  the  plays  made  famous 
by  the  late  Rosina  Vokes.  The  fall  season  of  1906  Miss  Ray- 
monde  appeared  in  "The  Society  Policeman,"  supporting  Guy 
Standing,  under  the  Shubert  management,  opening  at  Atlantic 
City,  N.  J.,  on  October  8,  1906.  Miss  Raymonde  was  married  to 
David  Henderson  in  November,  1896. 

RAYMOND,  Miss  Maud  (Mrs.  Gus  Solomon)  : 

Comedienne,  was  born  in  Orchard  street,  New  York,  and 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  the  East  Side.  She  made  her 
first  appearance  on  the  stage  with  the  Rice  and  Barton  com 
pany,  playing  small  parts,  and  afterward  joined  the  Harry  Will 
iams  company,  with  which  organization  she  stayed  two  years. 
After  a  season  with  J.  J.  Sullivan  in  "Bill's  Boot,"  she  joined  the 
Irwin  brothers,  after  which  she  was  with  the  Howard  Athenaeum 
Company  and  with  Fields  and  Hanson.  Miss  Raymond  made  her 
first  marked  success  as  Bolivar  in  Donnelly  and  Girard's  "The 
Rainmakers,"  after  which  she  joined  Tony  Pastor's  company, 
playing  a  season  of  fifteen  weeks,  and  then  doing  specialties  in 
the  vaudeville  houses.  In  1898  she  joined  the  Rogers  Brothers, 
making  her  first  appearance  in  "The  Reign  of  Error."  The  fol 
lowing  season,  in  "The  Rogers  Brothers  in  Wall  Street,"  she  for 
sook  the  German  dialect  "business,"  in  which  she  had  become 
popular,  and  was  one  of  the  first  to  make  a  specialty  of  ragtime 
songs.  As  Bozzy,  the  negro  attendant  in  a  manicure  parlor,  she 
was  one  of  the  features  in  "The  Social  Whirl"  at  the  Casino 
Theatre,  New  York,  the  season  of  1905-6,  the  song  "Bill  Sim 
mons"  being  one  of  the  specialties  of  her  performance.  The 
season  of  1907-8  Miss  Raymond  was  seen  in  "The  Gay  White 
Way,"  opening  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York,  October  7, 
1907.  Miss  Raymond  is  the  wife  of  Gus  Rogers,  of  the  Rogers 
Brothers,  whose  real  name  is  Solomon. 

RAYNORE,  Miss  Katherine: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston  and  made  her  first  appearance 
on  the  stage  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  in  "Never 
Again"  March  8,  1897.  For  three  years  following  she  played 
in  "The  Little  Minister"  first  Micah  Dow,  the  boy,  and  afterward 
Lady  Babbie.  She  next  played  Nanny  McNair  in  "The  Heart 
of  Maryland"  under  the  management  of  David  Belasco.  After 
playing  Gladys  in  "Hearts  Aflame,"  she  was  seen  as  Hope  Lang- 
ham  in  "Soldiers  of  Fortune."  A  short  season  supporting  Robert 


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Hilliard  in  the  vaudeville  sketch  "No.  973"  followed;  then  she 
played  the  boy  Zaquir  in  "The  Sorceress"  with  Mrs.  Patrick 
Campbell  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New  York.  She  then 
played  in  "Hanson's  Folly"  under  the  management  of  Daniel 
Frawley  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

REDDING,  Eugene  (Eugene  Robidoux) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Montreal,  Canada,  May  20,  1870.  He  re 
ceived  his  education  at  the  Jesuit  College  and  McGill  University, 
and  upon  his  graduation  took  up  practical  chemistry  as  an  oc 
cupation.  He  made  his  first  appearance  upon  the  stage  in  "The 
Girl  from  Paris"  in  1898  under  William  Warrington's  manage 
ment,  and  following  seasons  played  in  "Why  Smith  Left  Home" 
under  the  management  of  Broadhurst  Brothers;  "The  Friend  of 
the  Family,"  "The  Lightning  Conductor,"  with  Herbert  Kelcey 
and  Erne  Shannon;  "Before  and  After,"  playing  Mr.  Ditrich- 
stein's  original  part,  under  his  management,  and  during  the 
season  of  1906-7  was  seen  in  Frederick  Thompson's  production 
of  "Brewster's  Millions."  Mr.  Redding,  however,  made  his  first 
marked  success  in  "Foxy  Grandpa"  during  its  long  run  in  New 
York,  with  Joseph  Hart  and  Carrie  De  Mar.  Mr.  Redding  is 
also  director  of  Redding's  Military  Band  and  manager  of  Vic 
toria  Park,  Ottawa,  Canada.  In  1907  he  appeared  with  Lew 
Fields  in  "The  Girl  Behind  the  Counter,"  and  later  with  Anna 
Held  in  "The  Parisian  Model." 

REHAN,  Miss  Ada: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Limerick,  Ireland,  on  April  22,  1860. 
She  was  brought  to  America  by  her  parents,  who  settled  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in  1865.  In  1873  she  made  her  first  appearance 
on  the  stage  at  Newark,  N.  J.,  as  Clara  in  "Across  the  Conti 
nent."  The  same  year  she  made  her  first  appearance  on  the 
New  York  stage  at  Wood's  Museum  in  "Thoroughbred."  In 
1873-4  she  was  a  member  of  the  stock  company  at  the  Arch 
Street  Theatre,  Philadelphia,  and  in  1875  she  joined  the  stock 
company  at  Barney  Macauley's  Theatre  in  Louisville,  Ky.  In 
1877  she  was  employed  at  Albaugh's  Theatre  in  Albany,  N.  Y., 
and  in  1879  acted  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  New  York,  as 
Mary  Standish  in  Augustin  Daly's  play  of  "Pique."  In  May  of 
the  same  year  she  appeared  at  the  Olympic  Theatre,  New  York, 
as  Big  Clemence,  and  later  as  Virginie  in  Augustin  Daly's  ver 
sion  of  Zola's  "L'Assommoir."  On  September  17,  1879,  Daly's 
Theatre  was  opened  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Broadway  and 
Thirtieth  street,  and  Ada  Rehan  made  her  first  appearance  there, 
playing  Nelly  Beers  in  "Love's  Young  Dream."  Then  began  her 


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long  association  with  Augustin  Daly  as  the  leading  woman  of 
his  company,  a  place  she  held  until  his  death,  and  in  which  she 
gained  her  laurels  as  one  of  America's  foremost  Shakespearian 
actresses.  In  the  next  five  years  she  appeared  there  in  "Wives," 
"An  Arabian  Night,"  "Divorce,"  "Needles  and  Pins,"  "Cinder 
ella,"  "Quits,"  "Royal  Youth,"  "The  Passing  Regiment," 
"Odette,"  "The  Squire,"  "She  Would  and  She  Would  Not," 
"Seven-Twenty-Eight,"  "The  Country  Girl,"  and  "Red  Letter 
Nights."  On  July  19,  1884,  she  made  her  first  appearance  on 
the  London  stage  at  Toole's  Theatre,  the  engagement  lasting  six 
weeks.  This  was  the  beginning  of  Augustin  Daly's  theatrical 
management  in  London.  In  1885  she  appeared  as  Sylvia  in  "The 
Recruiting  Officer,"  Nisbe  in  "A  Night  Off,"  and  Agatha  Posket 
in  "The  Magistrate"  at  its  initial  production.  In  1886  she  played 
Mrs.  Ford  in  "The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,"  Nancy  Brasher  in 
"Nancy  &  Co.,"  and  made  a  tour  abroad,  appearing  in  London 
at  the  Strand  Theatre  for  nine  weeks,  and  in  Paris,  Hamburg, 
Berlin,  Edinburgh,  Glasgow,  Liverpool  and  Dublin.  On  January 
18,  1887,  Mr.  Daly  produced  "Taming  of  the  Shrew"  for  the  first 
time  in  America  with  the  Induction,  and  Miss  Rehan  gave  her 
first  performance  of  Katharine.  On  January  31,  1888,  she  made 
her  first  appearance  as  Helena  in  "A  Midsummer  Night's 
Dream."  The  same  year  she  played  in  "Taming  of  the  Shrew" 
at  the  Memorial  Theatre  at  Stratford-on-Avon,  and  appeared  in 
Paris,  Edinburgh  and  Glasgow.  The  next  year,  1889,  was  marked 
by  her  first  performance  of  Oriana  in  "The  Inconstant"  at  Daly's 
Theatre,  New  York,  and  her  first  performance  of  Rosalind  in 
"As  You  Like  It."  In  1890  she  appeared  as  Rosalind  at  the  Ly 
ceum  Theatre,  London,  and  in  1891  she  played  the  role  of  Lady 
Teazle  for  the  first  time.  That  year  she  also  officiated  at  the 
laying  of  the  cornerstone  of  Daly's  Theatre  in  London.  The  fol 
lowing  year,  on  March  17,  she  appeared  as  Marian  Lea  in  the 
first  production  of  Tennyson's  "The  Foresters"  at  Daly's  Theatre, 
New  York,  and  in  1892  she  appeared  as  Julia  in  "The  Hunch 
back."  In  1893  she  appeared  as  Viola  in  "Twelfth  Night"  for 
the  first  time.  On  June  27,  1893,  Daly's  Theatre  in  London  was 
opened.  Miss  Rehan  acted  there  from  June  27  to  May  7,  1894. 
"Twelfth  Night"  was  presented  one  hundred  and  eleven  times, 
and  "The  School  for  Scandal,"  with  Miss  Rehan  as  Lady  Teazle, 
over  fifty  times.  Thereafter  she  appeared  as  Julia  in  "Two  Gen 
tlemen  of  Verona,"  as  Juliana  in  "The  Honeymoon,"  in  "The 
Countess  Gucki,"  and  in  "Love  on  Crutches."  She  acted  Bea 
trice  in  "Much  Ado  About  Nothing"  for  the  first  time  at  Daly's 
Theatre  in  December,  1896,  and  Meg  Merrilies  in  "The  Witch  of 
Ellangowan"  in  March  of  the  following  year.  In  1897  she  also 


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appeared  for  the  first  time  as  Miranda  in  "The  Tempest"  at 
Daly's  Theatre,  and  made  a  tour  abroad,  playing  at  the  Shake 
speare  Memorial  Theatre,  in  Stratford-on-Avon,  as  Rosalind,  and 
in  Newcastle,  Nottingham,  Birmingham,  Edinburgh,  Glasgow, 
London,  Liverpool  and  Manchester.  She  began  the  season  of 
1898-9  at  Philadelphia,  playing  Roxane  in  "Cyrano  de  Bergerac." 
After  a  tour  she  played  Portia  in  "The  Merchant  of  Venice" 
fifty-three  times  at  Daly's  Theatre,  Sidney  Herbert  playing  Shy- 
lock.  The  season  of  1899  she  created  the  role  of  Catherine  in 
Mr.  Daly's  production  of  "Madame  Sans  Gene,"  and  the  role  of 
Lady  Garnet  in  the  production  of  the  melodrama  "The  Great 
Ruby"  by  the  same  manager.  When  Augustin  Daly  died  on 
June  7,  1899,  at  the  Continental  Hotel,  Paris,  Miss  Rehan,  who 
had  accompanied  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Daly  abroad,  was  at  his  bedside, 
and  she  was  a  passenger  on  the  steamer  which  brought  his 
body  home.  In  Mr.  Daly's  will  a  part  interest  in  the  manager's 
New  York  and  London  theatres  was  bequeathed  to  the  actress. 
She  did  not  appear  on  the  stage  again  until  March,  1900,  when 
she  began,  at  Ford's  Opera  House,  Baltimore,  a  tour  which  in 
cluded  thirty-one  cities  and  lasted  until  May,  her  repertoire  con 
sisting  of  "Taming  of  the  Shrew,"  "As  You  Like  It,"  "The 
School  for  Scandal,"  and  "The  Country  Girl."  On  November  28, 
1900,  she  played  for  the  first  time  the  role  of  Nell  Gwynn  in 
"Sweet  Nell  of  Old  Drury,"  by  Paul  Kester,  in  Buffalo,  and  in 
December  of  the  same  year  played  the  part  at  the  Knickerbocker 
Theatre,  New  York.  Her  mother,  Mrs.  Harriet  Crehan,  died  in 
1901  in  her  Brooklyn  home.  Up  to  the  spring  of  that  year  Miss 
Rehan  played  her  repertoire  on  tour,  retiring  from  the  stage  at 
the  end  of  her  season  until  October,  1903,  when  she  opened  at 
Atlantic  City  in  "Taming  of  the  Shrew"  with  Otis  Skinner  as 
Petruchio  and  George  Clarke  as  Sly.  In  January,  1904,  she  ap 
peared  as  Katharine  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New  York;  as  Lady 
Teazle,  and  as  Portia,  Otis  Skinner  being  the  Shylock.  The  fall 
season  of  that  year  she  opened  a  tour,  with  Charles  Richman  as 
leading  man,  at  New  Haven,  and  played  a  short  engagement  at 
the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York,  appearing  there  as  Katharine 
and  Lady  Teazle.  On  May  20,  1905,  she  sailed  for  England,  it 
being  reported  that  she  was  suffering  from  appendicitis.  She. 
returned  to  New  York,  but  another  severe  attack  of  illness  caused 
her  to  cancel  her  engagements  and  sail  again  to  England.  Her 
town  house  in  New  York  is  164  West  Ninety-third  street. 

EEIFFARTH,  Miss  Jennie: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  April  4,  1848,  and  made  her 
first   appearance   in   that   city   October   16,    1864,   as  a   dramatic 


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soprano  in  grand  opera,  in  German,  at  the  German  Stock  Thea 
tre,  until  recently  the  Windsor,  and  now  the  Kalish,  on  the  Bow 
ery.  She  then  went  to  San  Francisco,  and  for  eighteen  years 
appeared  there  in  stock,  making  occasional  visits  East.  She  first 
sang  in  English  in  "The  Black  Crook"  on  its  production  in  San 
Francisco.  She  sang  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New  York, 
with  Parepa  Rosa;  but,  an  attack  of  diphtheria  affecting  her  voice 
in  1868,  she  afterward  sang  only  in  light  operas.  In  1869  she  went 
to  California  under  the  management  of  Barrett  and  McCullough, 
playing  in  everything  from  Shakespeare  to  burlesque.  She  sup 
ported  such  stars  as  Booth,  Robson  and  Crane,  Rose  Eytinge, 
Edwin  Adams  and  Modjeska.  In  1878  Miss  Reiffarth  created 
the  part  of  Aunt  Pamela  in  "The  Tourist  in  a  Pullman  Palace 
Car"  and  played  it  for  two  years.  She  joined  Nat  Goodwin  for 
a  season,  then  returned  to  New  York,  and  when  the  Casino 
Theatre  opened  she  was  the  Marchioness  in  "The  Queen's  Hand 
kerchief."  She  also  created  the  part  of  Princess  Vindicta  in 
"Fortunio"  at  the  Cosmopolitan,  New  York,  which  stood  where 
the  Broadway  Theatre  now  is.  For  two  seasons  she  was  a  mem 
ber  of  the  Daly  company,  and  in  1884  created  the  part  of  the 
Duchess  in  "Adonis"  with  Henry  Dixey.  At  Niblo's  Garden,  in 
1890,  she  played  Corisanda  in  "The  King's  Fool,"  and  October 
5,  1891  at  the  Casino  played  Countess  Adelaide  in  "The  Ty 
rolean."  At  the  same  theatre  she  played  Pamela  with  De  An- 
gelis  in  "Uncle  Celestine,"  Mistress  Tyras  in  "The  Child  of  For 
tune,"  and  Donna  Candida  in  "The  Vice-Admiral."  At  the  Peo 
ple's  Theatre,  New  York,  Miss  Reiffarth  played  Marcella  in  "At 
the  Carnival";  then  in  succession  Mrs.  Wray  in  "Our  Club," 
Julia  in  "A  Bit  of  Scandal,"  Mrs.  Smith  in  "The  Player," 
Katherine  in  "About  Town,"  with  Warfield  and  Dan  Daly,  and 
Inez  in  "Jacinta."  Then  starred  as  Mrs.  Hettie  Goldstein  in 
"The  Widow  Goldstein"  at  the  Fourteenth  Street  Theatre.  After 
that,  Amable  Tonzel  in  "The  Battle  of  the  Strong"  with  Maurice 
Barrymore,  Tanta  Lena  in  "The  Outcast,"  Madame  Rouge  in 
"Drink,"  Mrs.  Becker  in  "Military  Mad,"  Jane  in  "Granny,"  and 
Mrs.  Sweet  during  the  New  York  engagement  of  "Buster  Brown"; 
with  Lackaye  in  "Trilby"  from  1896-8,  and  went  to  Australia 
with  the  company.  Miss  Reiffarth  made  a  great  success  as  Ma 
dame  Rosenbaum  in  "The  Great  Diamond  Robbery"  in  1898.  The 
season  of  1906-7  she  was  with  Wilton  Lackaye  in  "Law  and  the 
Man. " 

REVELL,  Miss  Dorothy: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  August  25,  1879,  and 
made  her  first  stage  appearance  in  1897,  playing  a  small   part 


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in  "The  Walking  Delegate"  in  Boston,  Mass.  She  married  a 
New  York  physician  shortly  afterward  and  retired  temporarily 
from  the  stage.  In  1902  she  appeared  as  Kaede  in  "The  Darling 
of  the  Gods"  with  Blanche  Bates.  She  then  was  seen  as  Fan- 
chonette  in  "The  Second  Fiddle,"  supporting  Louis  Mann,  under 
C.  B.  Dillingham's  management.  The  season  of  1905-6  she  was 
leading  woman  with  Arnold  Daly  in  "How  He  Lied  to  Her 
Husband,"  and  subsequently  appeared  in  "The  Title  Mart,"  and 
"Cousin  Louisa."  The  season  of  1906-7  she  was  seen  in  "Clothes" 
with  Grace  George. 

HEVELLE,  A.  Hamilton : 

Actor,  was  born  at  Moorish  Castle,  Gibraltar,  his  mother 
being  a  Spaniard  and  his  father  a  Swede.  He  went  to  England 
at  an  early  age,  and  was  educated  there.  His  first  stage  engage 
ment  was  with  the  company  of  the  late  Augustin  Daly  at  Daly's 
Theatre,  New  York,  in  "The  Magistrate,"  he  then  being  sixteen 
years  old.  He  remained  there  five  seasons,  twice  going  abroad 
with  the  company.  He  left  Mr.  Daly  to  return  to  England,  and 
played  many  leading  roles  with  Mr.  Beerbohm  Tree  at  the  Hay- 
market  Theatre.  He  next  appeared  at  the  Drury  Lane  Theatre 
under  the  management  of  the  late  Augustus  Harris,  playing  the 
juvenile  leads  in  "Cheer,  Boys,  Cheer,"  and  "The  Derby  Win 
ner."  After  playing  a  season  with  Sir  Charles  Wyndham  at  the 
Criterion  Theatre,  he  was  engaged  by  Cyril  Maude  and  Winifred 
Emery  for  a  two  years'  stay  at  the  Haymarket.  His  second  visit 
to  the  United  States  was  as  leading  man  for  Olga  Nethersole. 
He  was  the  original  Jean  Gaussin  in  the  much-discussed 
"Sapho,"  and  was  co-defendant  with  her  in  the  suit  brought  to 
stop  the  production  of  the  play  in  which  the  staircase  scene 
caused  such  widespread  discussion.  The  suit  failed,  and  the 
production  continued.  He  left  Miss  Nethersole's  company  after 
two  years,  to  become  leading  man  for  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  in 
David  Belasco's  production  of  "Du  Barry,"  in  which  he  played 
De  Cosse-Brissac.  In  1905-6  he  again  became  leading  man  for 
Miss  Nethersole,  touring  the  United  States  with  her  and  cre 
ating  the  original  man's  part  in  Hervieu's  "The  Labyrinth." 
The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  he  played  Don  Luis  de  la  Torre  in  "The 
Rose  of  the  Rancho."  His  residence  is  at  6  Bute  street,  South 
Kensington,  London,  S.  W.,  but  he  also  has  apartments  in 
Paris,  spending  his  leisure  time  in  the  two  cities.  His  chief 
diversions  are  painting  and  photography.  He  exhibits  his  photo 
graphic  work  yearly  at  exhibitions  in  Paris  and  London,  and 
lias  won  many  medals  and  prizes. 


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KICE,  Edward  Everett: 

Composer,  playwright  and  manager;  began  improvising  on 
the  piano  when  he  was  only  eight  years  old.  His  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  was  in  the  role  of  Francisco  in  "Hamlet"  in 
Chicago  at  a  salary  of  fifteen  dollars  a  week.  He  had  risen  to 
be  second  low  comedy  man  when  he  decided  that  acting  was  not 
his  forte.  He  went  to  Boston  and  there  married,  on  September 
9,  1871,  Clara  E.  Rich,  a  daughter  of  the  theatrical  manager 
Isaac  B.  Rich.  Soon  afterward  Mr.  Rice  and  J.  Cheever  Good 
win  visited  the  Howard  Athenaeum  in  Boston,  to  see  the  Lydia 
Thompson  Burlesquers.  They  decided  that  they  could  produce 
a  better  burlesque  than  the  one  they  saw,  and  set  to  work — Mr. 
Rice  writing  the  music  and  Mr.  Goodwin  the  text.  The  result 
was  "Evangeline."  It  was  produced  at  Niblo's  Garden,  New 
York,  in  July,  1874,  with  William  H.  Crane  as  Le  Blanc,  the 
notary,  and  made  an  immediate  hit.  Among  the  other  actors, 
who  at  various  times  played  in  this  burlesque  were  Henry  E. 
Dixey,  Nat  C.  Goodwin,  Sol  Smith  Russell,  Willie  Edouin,  Louis 
Harrison,  Laura  Joyce,  Sadie  Martinet  and  Pauline  Hall.  After 
the  enormous  success  of  "Evangeline"  Mr.  Rice  devoted  himself 
to  burlesque  and  produced  "Adonis,"  in  which  Henry  E.  Dixey 
became  famous;  "Cinderella  at  School,"  "Excelsior,"  "Fun  on 
the  Bristol,"  "Polly,"  "Hiawatha,"  "Seven  Ages,"  "Horrors," 
"Robinson  Crusoe,"  "Revels,"  "A  Bottle  of  Ink,"  "Babes  in  the 
Wood,"  "The  Corsair,"  "Pop,"  "Red  Riding  Hood,"  and  "1492," 
the  last  named  of  which  ran  for  487  nights  in  New  York  at  Wai- 
lack's  and  the  Garden  theatres.  In  many  of  these  he  collabo 
rated  with  John  J.  Braham  and  others.  On  February  15,  1900, 
in  celebration  of  his  completion  of  twenty-five  years  of  manage 
ment,  the  managers  of  New  York  gave  a  testimonial  for  him  at 
the  Metropolitan  Opera  House.  The  summer  season  of  1906  Mr. 
Rice  revived,  at  the  Manhattan  Beach  Theatre,  one  of  his  earlier 
productions,  "The  Girl  from  Paris."  The  fall  of  1907  he  pro 
duced  "Lolita, "  a  comic  opera. 

RICE,  Myron  B. : 

Manager,  was  born  in  East  Saginaw,  Mich.,  October  1,  1864. 
He  went  to  New  York  when  he  was  twelve  years  old  and  be 
came  an  office  boy  at  the  Grand  Opera  House.  He  soon  became 
treasurer.  The  following  season  he  went  on  the  road  as  treas 
urer  for  Madame  Modjeska.  After  two  seasons  with  her  he  be 
came  treasurer  for  Charles  Reid  and  William  Collier  in  a  play 
called  "Hoss  and  Hoss. "  The  following  season  he  was  manager 
for  Edwin  F.  Mayo  in  "Davy  Crockett,"  then  became  treasurer 
for  "Faust  Up-to-Date,"  a  musical  comedy,  in  which  Kate  Castle- 


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ton  was  the  star.  Henry  E.  Abbey  then  engaged  him  to  take 
charge  of  the  Sarasate  and  D'Albert  concert  tour  for  one  season. 
Next  year  he  was  treasurer  for  Mrs.  James  Brown  Potter  and 
Kyrle  Bellew,  and,  becoming  manager  for  them,  the  following 
season  met  them  in  San  Francisco  with  a  company  which  he 
had  organized  in  New  York.  The  season  lasted  from  July  until 
August  of  the  following  year.  The  productions  were  "Charlotte 
Corday"  and  "Therese."  The  following  year  Mr.  Rice  went  as 
Mr.  Abbey's  representative  with  Sir  Henry  Irving,  and  remained 
in  that  capacity  during  the  two  seasons  Mr.  Abbey  brought  Sir 
Henry  to  this  country.  Mr.  Rice  then  went  into  business  on  his 
own  account,  forming  a  partnership  with  William  G.  Smyth 
under  the  firm  name  of  Smyth  &  Rice.  Their  first  production 
was  ''My  Friend  from  India,"  which  enjoyed  a  worldwide  repu 
tation.  This  was  followed  by  "The  Man  from  Mexico"  with  Will 
iam  Collier  as  star.  After  a  season  of  four  years  the  firm  of 
Smyth  &  Rice  was  dissolved,  and  Mr.  Rice  became  manager  of 
"The  Wizard  of  Oz"  and  "Babes  in  Toyland"  companies,  re 
maining  with  the  latter  until  burned  out  at  San  Francisco  after 
the  earthquake. 

KICHMAN,  Charles  J. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Chicago  in  1870.  After  completing  his 
education  he  studied  law,  but  devoted  most  of  his  attention  to 
amateur  dramatic  clubs,  and  when  twenty  years  old  decided  to 
adopt  the  stage  as  a  profession.  He  went  to  New  York  and  got 
an  engagement  as  leading  man  with  a  traveling  company  play 
ing  melodrama.  When  the  late  James  A.  Herne  produced  "Mar 
garet  Fleming"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre  Mr.  Richman  cre 
ated  the  part  of  Philip  Fleming,  thus  making  his  first  New  York 
appearance.  He  next  played  the  Stranger  in  "Hannele,"  and 
then  became  a  member  of  A.  M.  Palmer's  stock  company  during 
the  season  of  1894-5,  playing  in  "New  Blood,"  "The  New  Wom 
an,"  and  "Esmeralda."  He  also  supported  Mrs.  Langtry  in 
"Gossip."  The  following  season  Mr.  Richman  was  leading  man 
of  the  Stockwell  Stock  Company  in  San  Francisco,  opening  in 
"Diplomacy."  He  then  returned  to  New  York  and  joined  the 
Daly  company,  making  his  first  appearance  with  that  organiza 
tion  as  Bruon  von  Neuhof  in  "The  Countess  Glucki."  On  the 
death  of  Mr.  Daly  Mr.  Richman  was  engaged  by  Charles  Froh- 
man  to  support  Miss  Annie  Russell  in  "Miss  Hobbs,"  playing 
the  part  of  Wolff  Kingsearl.  In  1900  Mr.  Richman  played  the 
Prince  Victor  of  Kurland  with  Annie  Russell  in  "A  Royal  Fam 
ily,"  and  then  the  Judge  in  "Mrs.  Dane's  Defence"  with  the  Em 
pire  Theatre  Company.  Early  in  1901  he  played  Julian  Beau- 


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clerc  in  "Diplomacy."  The  two  following  seasons  he  played 
Orlando  Delia  Torre  in  "The  Twin  Sister,"  and  the  Rev.  Walter 
Maxwell  in  "The  Unforeseen."  The  fall  of  1903  he  played  "Cap 
tain  Harrington"  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York,  and  in 
the  spring  of  1904  appeared  as  Jack  Spencer  in  "The  Genius." 
The  following  autumn  he  starred  with  Ada  Rehan  in  "The  Tam 
ing  of  the  Shrew"  and  "The  School  for  Scandal."  In  October, 
1905,  he  became  stock  star  at  Proctor's  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre, 
New  York,  and  the  following  spring  played  Jack  Hemingway  in 
"Gallops."  The  summer  of  1906  he  was  seen  in  "Rose  Valley" 
and  "The  Senator's  Vindication."  During  the  season  of  1906-7 
he  played  Kearney  in  "The  Rose  of  the  Rancho"  at  the  Belasco 
Theatre. 

RING,  Miss  Blanche: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  April  24,  1876,  being  the 
daughter  of  James  P.  Ring,  the  actor.  Early  in  her  stage  career 
she  played  engagements  with  the  late  James  A.  Herne  and  Nat 
C.  Goodwin,  but  it  was  not  until  the  spring  of  1902  that  she 
made  her  first  marked  success.  She  attracted  the  attention  of 
A.  H.  Chamberlyn,  who,  at  the  time  of  Miss  Ring's  tours  of  the 
music  halls  and  vaudeville  houses,  was  putting  on  "The  De 
fender,"  a  musical  comedy.  Miss  Ring  was  engaged  for  the 
piece,  in  which  she  introduced  the  well-known  song,  "In  the 
Good  Old  Summertime."  Following  this  engagement  she  ap 
peared  at  Mrs.  Osborn's  Playhouse  as  Miss  Innocence  Demure 
in  "Tommy  Rot."  She  then  toured  in  "The  Jewel  of  Asia"  with 
James  T.  Powers,  and  was  seen  on  Broadway  in  that  piece  at 
the  Criterion  Theatre,  New  York,  the  winter  of  1903.  On  Sep 
tember  14,  1903,  she  appeared  as  Lilliander  in  "The  Jersey  Lily" 
at  the  Victoria  Theatre,  New  York,  and  the  following  season 
made  her  debut  in  London.  Upon  her  return  to  this  country 
she  toured  in  "Vivian's  Papas,"  and  in  April,  1905,  was  seen  at 
the  Knickerbocker  Theatre  in  "Sergeant  Brue."  The  fall  of  that 
year  she  joined  Lew  Fields's  forces,  playing  Helen  Canting  in  a 
burlesque  of  "The  Music  Master."  Since  then  she  has  been  seen 
as  Katrinka  in  "His  Honor  the  Mayor,"  in  "It  Happened  in  Nord- 
land,"  "Miss  Dolly  Dollars,"  "About  Town,"  and  "The  Great 
Decide,"  a  travesty  on  "The  Great  Divide."  The  season  of  1907-8 
Miss  Ring  was  co-star  with  Jefferson  De  Angelis  and  Alexander 
Carr  in  the  musical  review,  "The  Great  White  Way,"  produced 
at  the  Casino  Theatre,  October  7,  1907. 

RING,  Miss  Frances :    (Mrs.  Thomas  Meighan) : 

Actress,  began  her  stage  career  with  Julia  Marlowe,  from 
whom  she  received  training  and  instruction.  She  left  the  Mar- 


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lowe  company  to  play  with  Amelia  Bingham  in  "The  Climbers." 
An  engagement  with  Charles  Richman  followed,  and  this  was 
succeeded  by  a  role  in  George  Ade's  "The  County  Chairman." 
The  seasons  of  1905-6  she  had  the  stellar  role  in  another  Ade 
comedy,  "The  College  Widow."  The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  she  was 
seen  in  "The  Man  of  the  Hour." 

RITCHIE,  Miss  Adele: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  in  1874,  of  French-Quaker 
parents.  She  was  educated  at  the  Villa  Marie,  West  Chester,  Pa., 
and  soon  after  her  graduation  from  the  convent  made  her  first 
stage  appearance  as  an  amateur  in  a  French  comedy,  in  which 
she  sang  several  songs.  Deciding  to  adopt  the  stage  as  a  pro 
fession,  she  obtained  an  engagement,  through  Reginald  De  Ko- 
ven,  and  made  her  debut  at  the  old  Park  Theatre,  Philadelphia, 
in  the  fall  of  1893,  playing  a  small  part  in  the  light  opera,  "The 
Algerian."  Her  singing  of  the  "Song  of  the  Rose"  attracted 
much  attention  when  the  opera  was  played  at  the  Garden  Thea 
tre  and  at  Daly's,  New  York,  and  when  Miss  Marie  Tempest, 
the  prima  donna,  left  the  company  early  in  1894,  Miss  Ritchie 
succeeded  to  her  position.  She  afterward  played  prima  donna 
roles  in  De  Koven's  "Mandarin"  and  Victor  Herbert's  "Wizard 
of  the  Nile."  She  then  joined  Daly's  company  as  prima  donna 
in  "The  Runaway  Girl,"  and  she  remained  under  Mr.  Daly's 
management  until  his  death.  After  spending  some  time  in  Eu 
rope,  Miss  Ritchie  appeared  as  a  star  in  vaudeville  in  this- 
country;  then,  going  back  to  musical  comedy,  became  the  recog 
nized  star  at  the  regular  productions  at  the  Casino  Theatre, 
New  York,  her  more  recent  successes  being  in  "The  Social 
Whirl"  during  the  season  of  1906-7,  and  "Fascinating  Flora" 
throughout  the  season  of  1907-8.  Miss  Ritchie  is  an  enthusi 
astic  horsewoman,  maintaining  a  large  stable.  She  also,  on  oc 
casions,  drives  her  own  60-horsepower  motor  car.  Her  home  is. 
at  57  West  Fifty-seventh  street,  New  York.  She  also  has  a 
country  place  in  Westchester  County,  New  York. 

ROBERTS,  Arthur: 

Actor,  was  born  in  London,  England,  September  21,  1852,. 
and  was  educated  at  Kentish  Town  School,  England.  After  clerk 
ing  in  a  bank  and  in  a  lawyer's  office,  he  made  his  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  at  the  Mogul  in  1873  and  subsequently  at  sev 
eral  other  London  music  halls.  Later  he  appeared  at  the  Thea 
tre  Royal,  Manchester,  England,  in  pantomime  and  at  the  Drury 
Lane  Theatre,  London,  in  "Mother  Goose."  In  1883  he  was  seen 
at  the  Avenue  Theatre,  London,  in  "La  Vie,"  and  then  made  his 


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368  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

first  marked  success  in  "The  Old  Guard,"  produced  in  1885.  In 
1890  lie  leased  the  Royalty  Theatre,  with  the  late  Sir  Augustus 
Harris,  and  produced  "The  New  Corsican  Brothers"  besides  sev 
eral  other  less  important  plays.  After  touring  the  provinces  in 
"Guy  Fawkes,  Esq."  he  returned  to  London,  appearing  in  1891 
in  "Joan  of  Arc."  He  again  toured  the  provinces  in  "H  M.  S. 
Irresponsible,"  "My  Lord  Sir  Smith,"  etc.  He  was  seen  in  "The 
School  Girl"  at  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Theatre,  London,  in  1903 
and  then  appeared  in  vaudeville,  where  he  has  since  remained. 
His  home  is  at  30  Maida  vale,  London,  England. 

EGBERTS,  Miss  Florence  (Mrs.  Lewis  Morrison)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1871.  Four  years  later 
she  went  to  California,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  made  her 
debut  on  the  stage  as  a  "super"  in  "Arrah-na-Pogue"  at  the 
Baldwin  Theatre,  San  Francisco.  In  1889,  after  a  year  of  util 
ity  work,  Miss  Roberts  appeared  as  Helle  in  "Clito"  at  the 
same  theatre.  Later  she  joined  Lewis  Morrison's  company,  play 
ing  small  parts  in  "Faust"  and  other  popular  plays.  Shortly 
after  this  she  left  the  company,  to  fill  short  engagements  with 
William  Gillette,  Otis  Skinner  and  Julia  Marlowe,  returning  to 
Lewis  Morrison  to  whom  she  was  married  in  1892,  and  from  a 
minor  role  in  his  "Faust"  she  became  Marguerite.  During  the 
first  popular  regime  of  the  Alcazar  Stock  Company  in  San  Fran 
cisco  Mr.  Morrison  and  Miss  Roberts  played  "Faust"  there,  and 
the  personal  success  of  Miss  Roberts  was  so  marked  that  she 
was  made  leading  woman  of  the  Alcazar  Stock  Company.  As 
such  she  played  the  principal  feminine  roles  in  "Hamlet," 
"Richelieu,"  "The  Merchant  of  Venice,"  "Romeo  and  Juliet," 
"Yorick's  Love,"  "The  Master  of  Ceremonies,"  "Ingomar,"  "East 
Lynne,"  "Camille,"  and  "Frederick  the  Great."  Her  most  suc 
cessful  roles  were  Camille,  Juliet,  Portia,  Ophelia,  Parthenia, 
La  Tosca  and  Peggy  in  "The  Country  Girl."  Belasco  and  Meyes 
then  starred  her  in  a  tour  of  the  Pacific  Coast  in  which  she  ap 
peared  in  "Zaza, "  "Sapho,"  "Marta  of  the  Lowlands,"  "The 
Unwelcome  Mrs.  Hatch,"  "Magda,"  "A  Doll's  House,"  "Giacon- 
da,"  "Miranda  of  the  Balcony,"  and  "Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles." 
In  October,  1905,  Miss  Roberts  went  under  the  management  of 
John  Cort,  manager  of  the  Northwestern  Theatrical  Association. 
He  produced  "Ann  La  Mont,"  by  Paul  Armstrong,  with  Miss 
Roberts  as  star,  at  Salt  Lake  City,  and  followed  it,  on  January 
28,  at  Denver  with  "The  Strength  of  the  Weak,"  by  Alice  M. 
Smith  and  Charlotte  Thompson,  which,  after  a  Western  tour, 
was  produced  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York,  on  April  17. 
This  marked  Miss  Roberts's  entry  into  New  York  as  a  star.  In 


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September,  1906,  she  went  on  tour  with  "The  Strength  of  the 
Weak."  On  September  26,  1907,  she  appeared  in  the  role  of 
Body  in  Edwin  Milton  Royle's  "The  Struggle  Everlasting"  at 
Hackett's  Theatre,  New  York.  The  balance  of  the  season  she 
starred  in  "Zira"  on  tour.  Early  in  the  fall  of  the  same  year 
her  husband,  Lewis  Morrison,  died  after  a  brief  illness.  Miss 
Roberts  is  an  active  member  of  the  Actors'  Fund.  She  is  an 
expert  whip.  Her  home  is  Morrison's  Manor,  Peekskill-on-the- 
Hudson,  N.  Y. 

EGBERTS,  Theodore: 

Actor,  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  October  8,  1861,  be 
ing  the  son  of  Mary  E.  and  Martin  R.  Roberts.  He  was  edu 
cated  at  the  public  schools  in  San  Francisco  and  the  Univer 
sity  of  California,  devoting  his  leisure  time  to  amateur  dra 
matics.  His  first  professional  stage  appearance  was  made  on 
May  1,  1880,  at  a  benefit  given  by  James  O'Neill,  playing  the 
part  of  Baradas  in  "Richelieu."  After  a  year  with  the  Baldwin. 
Stock  Company  he  joined  Robson  and  Crane,  remaining  with 
them  the  season  of  1881-2  touring  the  country.  In  1883  he  was 
a  member  of  Nellie  Boyd's  traveling  barnstorming  company, 
and  for  three  years  toured  with  it  as  leading  man,  playing  on 
the  trunks  of  California's  monster  trees,  in  hotel  dining-rooms, 
and  in  every  available  place  where  there  was  room  for  per 
forming,  and  where  there  were  no  objections  raised.  Mr.  Rob 
erts,  however,  became  disgusted  with  this  life,  and  left  the 
stage  temporarily,  cruising  for  a  little  over  two  years  as  cap 
tain  of  his  own  sailing  vessel.  In  1888  he  returned  to  the 
stage,  supporting  Fanny  Davenport  in  "La  Tosca"  in  Califor 
nia.  He  was  with  her,  as  leading  man,  until  1893,  when  he  was 
engaged  to  create  the  role  of  Sky  Brow,  the  Indian,  in  "The 
Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me,"  produced  at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New 
York,  and  in  which  he  made  a  marked  success.  Since  then  Mr. 
Roberts  has  been  identified  with  practically  every  Indian  char 
acter  portrayed  on  the  stage.  In  1894  he  returned  to  Miss  Dav 
enport's  company,  appearing  in  "Sismonda."  Mr.  Roberts  has 
been  seen  in  numerous  New  York  productions,  principally  in 
"Yearly  Troubles,"  "Heidelberg,"  "Jim  Bludso,"  the  dramati 
zation  of  John  Hay's  novel;  "The  Power  of  Gold,"  "Trilby,"" 
"We  Uns  of  Tennessee,"  "Rupert  of  Hentzau,"  "Don  Caesar  de 
Bazan,"  "John  Ermine,"  and  supported  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  for 
a  season  in  "The  Heart  of  Maryland."  Subsequently  he  was 
seen  in  "Arizona,"  both  in  this  country  and  in  England.  The 
season  of  1905-6  he  originated  the  Indian  character,  Tobywonda, 
in  "The  Squaw  Man,"  produced  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New 


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York,  and  in  which  Mr.  Roberts  spoke  the  Ute  language  fluently 
and  accurately.  After  supporting  Bertha  Kalich  in  "The 
Kreutzer  Sonata,"  early  in  1907,  he  directed  the  Pabst  Theatre 
Stock  Company  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.  The  season  of  1907-8  he 
starred  jointly  with  Guy  Standing  in  William  Presbrey's  drama 
tization  of  Sir  Gilbert  Parker's  "The  Right  of  Way,"  playing 
the  role  of  Joe  Portugais.  Mr.  Roberts  married  Miss  Clyde 
O'Brien,  known  on  the  stage  as  Clyde  Harron,  in  July,  1890.  He 
is  a  cousin  of  Miss  Florence  Roberts,  the  actress.  He  is  a  mem 
ber  of  The  Lambs,  Actors'  Society,  Manhattan  Chess  and  Pavo- 
nia  Yacht  clubs,  New  York. 

ROBERTSON,  Donald: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Scotland  and  brought  to  this  country 
when  a  boy.  He  was  graduated  from  the  Polytechnic  Institute, 
New  York.  His  first  appearance  on  the  stage  was  in  small 
Shakespearian  parts  with  Daniel  Bandmann  and,  when  only 
twenty  years  old,  he  played  the  cripple  in  "The  Two  Orphans" 
with  Kate  Claxton  at  a  revival  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre, 
New  York.  He  afterward  appeared  with  the  late  Dion  Bouci- 
cault  and  with  the  late  J.  K.  Emmett,  after  which  he  went  to 
England  where  for  ten  years  he  was  associated  with  John  Hare 
and  other  stars.  Returning  to  this  country,  he  appeared  at  the 
head  of  his  own  company  in  "The  Iron  Mask"  and  other  dramas. 
He  then  established  himself  in  Chicago  as  a  teacher  of  elocu 
tion  and  dramatic  art.  Mr.  Robertson's  chief  successes  were  as 
Tesman  in  "Hedda  Gabler,"  and  as  Paola  in  "The  Rights  of 
the  Soul." 

ROBERTSON,  Johnston  Forbes: 

See  Forbes-Robertson,  Johnston. 

ROBSON,  Miss  May  (Mrs.  Augustus  H.  Brown)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Australia,  the  name  of  her  parents  be 
ing  Robison  and  her  father  being  an  officer  in  the  British  Navy. 
A  typographical  error  was  responsible  for  Miss  Robison  becom 
ing  known  as  Robson.  She  was  educated  in  Paris  and  Belgium. 
While  she  was  still  a  girl  she  ran  away  from  home  and  was 
married.  A  few  years  later  she  found  herself  a  widow  in  New 
York — friendless,  almost  penniless,  and  with  three  young  chil 
dren.  Two  died  during  her  struggle  with  poverty.  She  made 
only  a  scant  living  painting  china  and  menu  cards  for  promi 
nent  firms  in  the  city  and,  almost  in  desperation,  turned  to  the 
stage.  She  had  had  absolutely  no  experience  when  she  was  en 
gaged  to  play  a  small  part  in  "The  Hoop  of  Gold,"  a  melodrama. 


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under  the  management  of  Marbury  and  Overton,  at  the  Madison 
Square  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1883.  She  made  such  a  success  of 
Tilly,  a  "slavey,"  that  she  was  engaged  by  Daniel  Frohman  for 
the  Lyceum  Theatre.  Passing  to  the  management  of  Charles 
Frohman,  she  remained  with  the  Empire  Theatre  Company  for 
eighteen  years,  playing  character  parts  in  nearly  all  its  produc 
tions,  prominent  among  which  were  Poulette  in  "The  Conquer 
ors,"  Miss  Ashford  in  "The  Private  Secretary,"  Artemise  in  "A 
Night's  Session,"  and  Veranda  in  "Foregone  Conclusions."  She 
also  played  with  Francis  Wilson  for  two  years.  Miss  Robson, 
in  addition  to  being  an  adept  in  the  art  of  make-up,  has  more 
than  once  invented  original  effects  in  connection  with  her  char 
acter  acting,  most  notable  among  which  were  her  "third  leg"  in 
"The  Poet  and  the  Puppets,"  and  her  "trick"  wig  in  "The  Coun 
cillor's  Wife."  The  season  of  1907-8  Miss  Robson  starred  in 
"The  Rejuvenation  of  Aunt  Mary."  Miss  Robson  is  the  wife  of 
Dr.  Augustus  H.  Brown,  a  New  York  physician.  Her  permanent 
address  is  262  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-sixth  street,  New 
York  City. 

ROBSON,  Miss  Eleanor  Elise: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Wigan,  Lancashire,  England,  being 
the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Madge  Carr  Robson.  Following  the 
death  of  her  husband,  the  mother  brought  her  daughter  to  Amer 
ica.  It  was  not  long  before  the  blood  of  three  generations  of  ar 
tists  began  to  assert  itself,  and,  placing  her  young  daughter  with 
the  Sisters  of  St.  Peter's  Academy,  Staten  Island,  the  mother 
entered  the  theatrical  profession,  where  she  has  for  many  years 
as  Madge  Carr  Cook  held  high  and  honored  place.  Miss  Robson 
was  graduated  from  her  school  in  1897,  and  started  immediately 
for  San  Francisco  where  Mrs.  Cook  was  playing  with  the  Fraw- 
ley  Stock  Company  at  the  California  Theatre.  The  very  day  of 
Miss  Robson's  arrival  the  actress  cast  for  the  part  of  Marguerite 
Knox  in  "Men  and  Women"  fell  ill,  and  the  youthful  and  inex 
perienced  convent  graduate  was  asked  if  she  could  undertake 
the  role.  She  said  she  could,  and  she  did.  The  result  was  a 
surprising  and  most  remarkable  triumph,  one  which  fixed  the 
future  career  of  the  already  ambitious  young  woman.  Her  prog 
ress  was  rapid  and  most  pronounced.  Her  inborn  art,  her  youth, 
grace  and  beauty  created  a  genuine  sensation  in  the  Pacific  me 
tropolis,  and  before  the  season  was  ended  offers  of  more  re 
munerative  engagements  began  to  pour  in  on  her.  Her  second 
season  she  played  leading  parts  with  the  Salisbury  Stock  Com 
pany  in  Milwaukee,  and  later  with  the  stock  company  at 
Elitch's  Gardens,  Denver,  then  in  the  heyday  of  its  fame.  On 


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August  21,  1899,  she  created  the  part  of  Bonita  Canby  in  Au 
gustus  Thomas's  "Arizona"  under  Kirke  La  Shelle's  manage 
ment  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  Chicago,  and  won  instant  rec 
ognition.  When  "Arizona"  was  presented  at  the  Herald  Square 
Theatre,  New  York,  Mrs.  Sara  Cowell  Lemoyne  was  playing  un 
der  Liebler  &  Co.'s  management  at  Wallack's,  and  it  was  dur 
ing  this  engagement  that  George  C.  Tyler  arranged  for  his  spe 
cial  single  matinee  presentation  of  Browning's  "In  a  Balcony." 
Otis  Skinner  was  the  Norbert  and  Mrs.  Lemoyne  the  Queen,  and 
it  was  hoped  to  obtain  Miss  Julia  Marlowe  for  the  part  of  Con 
stance.  Mr.  Tyler  had  seen  Miss  Robson's  work,  however,  and 
had  great  faith  in  her  art,  and  so  the  part  of  Constance  was, 
with  Mr.  La  Shelle's  consent,  offered  to  and  accepted  by  her. 
Her  achievement  was  amazing,  and  a  spring  tour  of  Browning's 
"In  a  Balcony,"  with  the  same  cast,  followed.  Miss  Robson 
passed  under  the  management  of  Liebler  &  Co.,  where  she  has 
since  remained.  Her  subsequent  undertakings  have  always  been 
of  high  grade,  and  her  achievements  a  theme  of  constant  com 
ment.  She  created  the  role  of  Flossie  Williams  in  "Unleavened 
Bread,"  and  was  the  Mile,  de  la  Vire  to  Kyrle  Bellew's  De  Mar- 
sac  in  "A  Gentleman  of  Prance."  She  was  first  starred  by  Lieb 
ler  &  Co.  in  "Audrey."  She  was  the  Juliet  in  Liebler  &  Co.'b 
famous  all-star  cast  of  "Romeo  and  Juliet"  with  Kyrle  Bellew 
as  Romeo,  Eben  Plympton  as  Mercutio  and  W.  H.  Thompson  as 
Friar  Lawrence.  Miss  Robson's  triumphs  in  London  and  Amer 
ica  in  the  Israel  Zangwill  comedy,  "Merely  Mary  Ann,"  were 
phenomenal,  the  London  success  surpassing  that  of  any  presen 
tation  by  an  American  dramatic  artist  since  Ada  Rehan  took 
that  city  by  storm.  Her  Kate  Hardcastle  in  the  special  produc 
tion  of  "She  Stoops  to  Conquer"  will  be  long  remembered.  For 
the  season  of  1906-7  the  entire  time  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New 
York  City,  was  secured  for  her,  and  this  time  she  filled,  pre 
senting  a  number  of  new  plays  by  distinguished  authors  and 
playing  to  receipts  the  average  of  which  was  phenomenal.  One 
of  her  greatest  triumphs  was  the  Paul  Armstrong  play,  "Salomy 
Jane,"  based  on  the  Bret  Harte  California  idyl,  "Salomy  Jane's 
Kiss,"  which,  with  Israel  Zangwill's  "Nurse  Marjorie"  and 
"Merely  Mary  Ann,"  constituted  her  repertoire  for  the  season 
of  1907-8,  playing  en  tour.  Miss  Robson's  address  is  care  of 
Liebler  &  Co.,  Fifth  avenue  and  Thirty-eighth  street,  New  York. 

ROCKWELL,  Miss  Florence : 

Actress,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  July  9,  1880.  Her  first 
public  appearance  was  when,  as  a  child  of  four  years,  her  father 
lifted  her  to  a  table  on  the  floor  of  the  Merchants'  Exchange, 


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where  she  recited  for  an  audience  of  St.  Louis  brokers.  From 
that  time  on  she  was  frequently  facing  the  footlights  in  ama 
teur  performances,  principally  as  a  dancer.  At  the  age  of  twelve 
her  family  moved  to  New  York.  Two  years  later  Thomas  W. 
Keene  made  her  an  offer  to  play  leading  parts  in  his  com 
pany,  and  Miss  Rockwell  made  her  debut  as  Julie  de  Morte- 
inar  in  "Richelieu"  in  Pittsburg,  following  it  in  the  same  week 
with  Desdemona,  Ophelia  and  Juliet.  She  was  the  youngest 
Juliet  who  ever  played  in  this  country,  being  fourteen  years 
old.  Miss  Rockwell  appeared  with  James  O'Neill  as  Ophelia, 
as  Virginia  in  "Virginius,"  Julie  in  "The  Lyons  Mail,"  and  Mer 
cedes  in  "Monte  Cristo."  She  created  the  part  of  Meg  Ronalds 
in  Charles  Kline's  play,  "Hon.  John  Grigsby,"  with  Sol  Smith 
Russell.  Then  came  Mary  Horneck  in  Augustus  Thomas's 
4' Oliver  Goldsmith"  with  Stuart  Robson,  in  which  Miss  Rock 
well  made  her  first  Broadway  success.  The  following  summer 
she  played  Camille  at  the  head  of  a  special  company  at  tho 
Tremont  Theatre,  Boston.  She  then  joined  Henry  Miller's  com 
pany,  appearing  in  New  York  as  Elizabeth  Wilbur  in  "Richard 
Savage,"  and  Pamela  in  "D'Arcy  of  the  Guards,"  and  in  a  variety 
of  leading  roles  during  Mr.  Miller's  summer  stock  season  at  the 
Columbia  Theatre,  San  Francisco.  She  was  then  engaged  by 
Klaw  &  Erlanger,  playing  first  in  George  V.  Hobart's  farce, 
"John  Henry,"  and  later  in  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream" 
with  Nat  Goodwin.  After  playing  Nora  in  Ibsen's  "A  Doll's 
House"  she  was  selected  by  Richard  Mansfield  as  his  leading 
woman  and  she  played  all  the  principal  parts  in  his  repertoire, 
scoring  especially  as  Portia  and  Hester  Pryune.  The  season  of 
1906-7  she  appeared  in  the  leading  roles  of  George  M.  Cohan's 
play  of  "Popularity."  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  seen  in  Ed 
ward  Day's  Western  drama,  "The  Round  Up." 

ROGERS  BROTHERS  (Gus  and  Max  Solomon) : 

Comedians;  have  always  been  so  closely  associated  that  it 
is  practically  impossible  to  separate  them,  even  in  a  biographi 
cal  sketch.  They  made  their  first  professional  appearance  in  a 
song  and  dance  act  at  the  National  Theatre  on  the  Bowery,  New 
York,  in  1885.  It  was  four  years  later  when  they  first  appeared 
as  Dutch  knockabout  comedians  at  Tony  Pastor's  Theatre,  New 
York,  where  their  act  made  such  a  success  that  they  stayed  the 
entire  season.  After  seasons  with  Tom  Miaco's  City  Club  Com 
pany,  Reilly  and  Wood,  and  Hart's  Boston  Novelty  Company, 
they  returned  to  Tony  Pastor.  They  first  organized  their  own 
company  in  1893,  and  after  a  season  on  the  road  were  again 
seen  at  Pastor's.  A  season  with  Field  and  Hanson  followed.  In 


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1905  they  were  a  feature  of  Donnelly  and  Girard's  farce  comedy, 
"The  Rain  Makers."  They  first  appeared  at  Koster  &  Bial's  in 
New  York,  and  the  following  year  they  created  the  leading 
comedy  parts  in  "One  Round  of  Pleasure"  at  the  Knickerbocker 
Theatre,  New  York.  In  1898,  as  joint  stars,  they  starred  in 
"vaudeville  comedies,"  especially  written  for  them  by  John  J, 
McNally,  the  first  of  which  was  "A  Reign  of  Error."  This  was 
followed  by  "The  Rogers  Brothers  in  Wall  Street."  The  seasons 
of  1906-7  they  appeared  in  "The  Rogers  Brothers  in  Ireland," 
and  the  season  of  1907-8  in  "The  Rogers  Brothers  in  Panama." 

ROMA,  Mme.  Caro: 

Actress  and  vocalist,  was  born  in  California,  her  father  be 
ing  a  forty-niner,  and  has  Italian,  French,  Spanish  and  English 
blood  in  her  veins.  She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  when 
she  was  three  years  old  in  Platt's  Hall,  San  Francisco,  and  has 
been  continuously  behind  the  footlights  ever  since.  She  con 
tinued  playing  child's  parts,  principally  in  opera,  until  she  was 
fifteen  years  old,  studying  music  in  the  meantime,  when  she 
became  the  leader  of  the  orchestra  with  the  first  "Cinderella" 
company  in  America.  For  a  time,  while  she  was  still  in  her 
'teens,  she  conducted  a  French  opera  company  in  a  tour  through 
Canada  under  the  management  of  Tom  Maguire.  Her  musical 
education  was  completed  at  the  New  England  Conservatory  of 
Music  in  Boston,  and  she  then  at  once  entered  on  her  operatic 
career.  She  was  the  first  prima  donna  of  the  original  Castle 
Square  Opera  Company,  organized  by  Henry  W.  Savage  in  Bos 
ton.  Returning  to  San  Francisco,  she  joined  the  opera  company 
at  the  Tivoli  Opera  House  and  continued  with  it  for  several 
years,  playing  the  chief  parts  in  all  the  well-known  operas. 
While  Grover  Cleveland  was  President  she  was  the  soloist  with 
the  United  States  Marine  Band.  When  Mascagni  conducted  a 
performance  of  his  "Cavalleria  Rusticana"  at  San  Francisco 
Mme.  Roma  was  the  Santuzza.  For  the  last  seven  years  she  has 
been  singing  in  grand  opera  in  the  Continental  capitals.  Her 
home  is  at  Lauderdale  Mansions,  Maida  Vale,  London. 

ROSENFELD,  Sydney: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Richmond,  Va.,  on  October  26,  1855, 
and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools.  Going  to  New  York 
in  early  life,  he  engaged  in  literary  pursuits  and  became  the 
first  editor  of  Puck.  His  first  play,  "A  Possible  Case,"  was  fol 
lowed  by  "Imagination,"  "The  Club  Friend,"  "The  Politician," 
"A  Man  of  Ideas,"  and  "A  House  of  Cards."  His  first  great 
success  was  "The  Senator/'  in  which  W.  H.  Crane  first  appeared 


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as  an  individual  star.  He  wrote  "The  Lady  or  the  Tiger,"  and 
"The  Mocking  Bird,"  a  light  opera,  in  which  Mabelle  Gilman 
starred;  "The  Passing  Show,"  and  "The  Giddy  Throng"  for  the 
Casino  Theatre,  and  "The  King's  Carnival,"  "The  Hall  of 
Fame,"  and  "The  Vanderbilt  Cup,"  the  last  named  of  which 
was  produced  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York,  in  the  spring 
of  1906,  and  in  which  Elsie  Janis  first  became  a  star.  Mr.  Rosen- 
feld  also  adapted  "The  White  Horse  Tavern,"  "The  Two  Es 
cutcheons,"  "The  Black  Hussar,"  and  "Prince  Methusalem."  The 
revue,  "The  Gay  White  Way,"  was  produced  at  the  Casino  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  October  7,  1907.  His  home  is  at  308  West  Ninety- 
fifth  street,  New  York  City. 

ROSS,  Charles  J.  (Charles  J.  Kelly)  : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Montreal,  Canada,  February  18,  1859,. 
and  before  going  on  the  stage  was  associated  with  horseracing. 
He  made  his  first  appearance  at  Miner's  Bowery  Theatre,  New 
York,  April  5,  1885,  as  a  mimic  and  singer,  having  been  a 
jockey  with  Barnum's  show  the  previous  year.  His  next  en 
gagement  was  with  "Herman's  Transatlantics"  in  variety,  after 
which  he  was  seen  in  farce  comedy  in  conjunction  with  Gus. 
Williams,  John  C.  Rice,  and  Donnelly  and  Girard.  He  appeared 
in  vaudeville  several  seasons,  and  then  became  a  member  of 
the  original  Weber  and  Fields  Company,  with  which  organiza 
tion  he  remained  four  years.  He  then  played  in  "My  Lady  and 
the  Musketeer"  and  in  "Beauty  and  the  Beast."  After  that  he 
was  seen  in  vaudeville  at  the  head  of  his  own  company.  He 
next  starred  in  "Fiddle-de-dee,"  and  "The  Winning  Girl."  He 
appeared  as  Julian  Endicott  in  "The  Social  Whirl"  at  the  Casino 
Theatre,  New  York,  May  14,  1906,  and  played  in  it  the  balance 
of  the  season.  The  summer  of  1907  he  was  seen  in  "The  Follies- 
of  1907"  at  the  New  York  Theatre  Roof  Garden.  The  fall  of 
1907  he  starred  in  "The  Social  Whirl,"  and  then  joined  Joseph 
Weber,  appearing  at  his  New  York  theatre  the  balance  of  the 
season  of  1907-8.  Mr.  Ross  married  Miss  Mabel  Fenton  at 
Deadwood,  S.  Dak.,  June  9,  1887.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masons, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  Elks,  Eagles,  White  Rats,  New  York  Ath 
letic  Club  and  The  Lambs.  His  home  is  the  Ross  and  Fenton 
Farm,  Asbury  Park,  N.  J. 

ROSS,  Thomas  W. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston  January  22,  1878,  and  made  his. 
first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  1892  with  the  Boston  Museum 
Stock  Company  and  remained  with  that  organization  until  its 
dissolution.  Then  followed  a  thirty  weeks'  season  with  the  Grand 


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Opera  House  Stock  Company  of  Boston.  The  seasons  of  1895 
and  1896  he  spent  in  Denver  and  Kansas  City.  Then  he  became 
a  member  of  the  stock  company  of  the  Avenue  Theatre,  Pitts- 
burg,  Pa.,  playing,  among  other  parts,  Tony  Lumpkin  and  Bob 
Acres.  On  the  reorganization  of  that  company,  which  was  trans 
ferred  to  the  Grand  Opera  House,  Mr.  Ross  was  engaged  for 
leading  light  comedy  and  juvenile  roles.  At  the  Park  Theatre, 
Brooklyn,  in  the  revival  of  "Trilby"  he  was  cast  for  Little  Billie 
with  Henrietta  Crosman  as  Trilby.  Among  his  successes  during 
the  last  few  years  have  been  the  roles  of  Augustus  Keen  Shaver 
in  "My  Friend  from  India,"  Tweenways  in  "The  Amazons/' 
Hypocrite  Caromel  in  "Nerves,"  and  John  Baristock  in  "His  Ex 
cellency  the  Governor."  He  made  his  chief  success  as  a  star  in 
"Checkers,"  and  the  season  of  1906-7  played  Robert  Rand  in  the 
Cohan  play,  "Popularity,"  which  opened  at  Wallack's  Theatre 
October  1,  1907. 

KO  YLE,  Edwin  Milton : 

Playwright  and  actor,  was  born  in  Lexington,  Mo.,  and  was 
educated  first  at  the  Collegiate  Institute,  Salt  Lake  City,  and  aft 
erward  at  Princeton  University.  He  took  a  post-graduate  course 
at  the  University  of  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  and  then  studied  law 
at  Columbia,  New  York.  After  some  little  experience  as  an  actor, 
Mr.  Royle  married  Miss  Selena  Fetter,  October  16,  1892,  and  pro 
duced  his  first  play,  "Friends,"  the  same  year,  with  himself  and 
his  wife  in  the  leading  parts.  They  starred  in  this  several  sea 
sons,  and  in  1897  they  appeared  in  Mr.  Royle's  next  dramatic 
effort,  "Captain  Impudence."  This  was  afterward  condensed 
into  one  act,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Royle  played  it  a  number  of 
seasons  in  vaudeville  houses.  The  season  of  1903-4  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Royle  appeared  in  his  play,  "My  Wife's  Husbands,"  at  the 
Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York.  Nat  Goodwin  also  played 
this  piece.  Mr.  Royle's  later  plays  are  "The  Squaw  Man,"  pro 
duced  in  1905  by  William  Faversham;  "Marrying  Mary,"  played 
by  Miss  Marie  Cahill  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8;  "Cleo,"  originally 
intended  for  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter,  but  produced  by  Nance  O'Neill 
in  1906,  and  "The  Struggle  Everlasting,"  produced  at  Hackett's 
Theatre,  New  York,  September  26,  1907,  with  Miss  Florence  Rob 
erts  in  the  leading  role. 

KTJSSELL,  Miss  Annie  (Mrs.  Oswald  Yorke) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  England,  January  12,  1864, 
and  was  taken  to  Canada  when  a  little  child.  She  made  her  first 
public  appearance,  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  as  Jeanne  in  "Miss 
Moulton"  with  Rose  Eytinge  at  the  Academy  of  Music,  Mon- 


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treal.  At  the  end  of  a  season  Miss  Russell  went  to  New  York 
and  joined  Haverly's  Juvenile  "Pinafore"  Company  as  a  mem 
ber  of  the  chorus.  A  few  months  later  she  was  singing  Joseph 
ine.  She  later  appeared  as  the  Little  Boy  in  "Rip  Van  Winkle'' 
with  Robert  Me  Wade,  and  as  Little  Eva  in  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin." 
After  a  tour  to  the  West  Indies,  and  when  only  fifteen  years  old, 
Miss  Russell  made  a  big  success  in  "Bsmeralda,"  by  Frances 
Hodgson  Burnett,  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  play 
ing  the  part  there  350  times  and  nearly  a  thousand  times  alto 
gether.  Miss  Russell  was  married  to  Eugene  Wiley  Presbrey, 
then  stage  manager  of  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York, 
in  Buffalo  November  6,  1884.  Thirteen  years  later  she  obtained 
a  divorce.  After  playing  in  "Pique,"  "Confusion,"  and  "Hazel 
Kirke"  she  joined  A.  M.  Palmer's  Madison  Square  Theatre  Stock 
Company.  She  played  the  ingenue  roles  and  made  marked  suc 
cesses  as  Lady  Vavir  in  W.  S.  Gilbert's  "Broken  Hearts,"  Sylvia 
in  "Our  Society,"  and  Elaine  in  George  Parsons  Lathrop's  adap 
tation  of  Tennyson's  "Idylls  of  the  King."  She  also  played  in 
"Moths,"  "Engaged,"  and  "Sealed  Instructions."  Two  years 
later  Miss  Russell  was  compelled  to  retire  by  illness,  and  from 
1889  to  1894  she  was  lost  to  the  stage.  Early  in  1891  a  monster 
benefit  was  held  for  her,  the  performance,  at  Palmer's  Theatre, 
New  York,  netting  $5,000  to  her.  She  made  her  reappearance, 
fully  recovered,  under  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman  in 
A.  M.  Palmer's  company  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  in  the 
spring  of  1894  in  the  leading  part  in  Sydney  Grundy's  "The 
New  Woman."  This  was  followed  by  "Lethe's  Dream,"  and 
Rosalind  in  "Romeo's  First  Love."  The  following  season  she 
was  leading  woman  for  Nat  Goodwin  in  "David  Garrick,"  "Am 
bition,"  and  "In  Mizzoura."  There  followed  in  succession  star 
appearances  in  Bret  Harte's  "Sue,"  and  as  Betty  in  "The  Mys 
terious  Mr.  Bugle,"  and  support  of  Sol  Smith  Russell  in  "A 
Bachelor's  Romance."  After  playing  in  the  one-act  play  "Dain- 
gerfield,  '95,"  and  a  special  matinee  of  "The  Scenario,"  Miss 
Russell  went  to  London  in  1898  and  played  "Sue"  and  "Dainger- 
field,  '95"  at  the  Garrick,  meeting  with  much  praise.  She  re 
turned  to  the  United  States  at  the  head  of  her  own  company  the 
same  year  and  appeared  as  Catherine  in  the  play  of  that  name. 
The  season  of  1899-1901  she  starred  in  "Miss  Hobbs"  at  the  Ly 
ceum  Theatre,  New  York,  for  five  months;  1901-2  in  "The  Royal 
Family,"  which  held  the  Lyceum  stage  for  six  months;  1902-3 
in  "The  Girl  and  the  Judge,"  which  ran  until  1904  at  the  old 
Lyceum.  The  season  of  1904-5  she  appeared  in  "Mice  and  Men," 
and  "Brother  Jaques,"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  and 
in  "Jinny,  the  Carrier,"  at  the  Criterion.  In  1905  she  again 


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went  to  London,  playing  the  title  role  in  Bernard  Shaw's  "Major 
Barbara."  The  season  of  1906-7  Miss  Russell  toured  in  a  revival 
of  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream,"  playing  the  role  of  Puck.  Oa 
March  27,  1904,  Miss  Russell  was  married  to  Oswald  Yorke,  an 
English  actor. 

KUSSELL,  Miss  Dorothy   (Dorothy  Leonard) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  May  10,  1881,  being  the 
daughter  of  Lillian  Russell,  the  actress,  and  the  late  Edward 
Solomon.  She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  in  January,  1904, 
with  Amelia  Bingham  in  "Olympe"  at  the  Knickerbocker  Thea 
tre,  New  York.  In  the  spring  of  that  year  she  was  seen  in  "The 
Ruling  Power"  with  Katherine  Kennedy  at  the  Garrick  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  and  in  June  went  into  vaudeville  where  she  has- 
remained  since.  Miss  Russell  married  Abbott  Louis  Einstein, 
the  son  of  a  New  York  lawyer,  in  August,  1903,  from  whom  she 
obtained  a  divorce  three  years  later. 

EUSSELL,  Miss  Lillian  (Helen  Louise  Leonard) : 

Light  opera  prima  donna  and  actress,  was  born  in  Clinton. 
Iowa,  December  4,  1861,  her  father,  Charles  E.  Leonard,  being 
the  proprietor  and  editor  of  the  Clinton  Weekly  Herald,  and  she 
was  christened  Helen  Louise  Leonard.  Her  mother,  Mrs.  Cyn 
thia  Leonard,  was  well  known  as  a  woman's  rights  advocate. 
In  1865  her  family  moved  to  Chicago,  where  she  was  educated 
in  the  Convent  of  the  Sacred  Heart,  and  studied  vocal  and  violin 
music.  Her  first  performance  as  an  amateur  was,  as  a  pupil,  in 
Chickering  Hall,  Chicago,  on  which  occasion  she  sang  two  songs. 
While  she  was  singing  in  the  choir  of  St.  John's  Episcopal 
Church,  Chicago,  she  was  studying  singing  with  Madame  Jen- 
nivally,  who  encouraged  her  in  her  ambition  for  the  grand  opera 
stage.  She  went  to  New  York  and  studied  further  for  grand 
opera  under  the  late  Dr.  Damrosch.  It  was  in  1879  that  she 
made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage,  Mrs.  William  E.  Sinn 
prevailing  on  her  to  appear  in  the  chorus  of  Edward  E.  Rice'a 
"Pinafore"  company  for  the  sake  of  the  stage  experience.  The- 
engagement  lasted  only  two  months,  but  resulted  in  the  mar 
riage  of  Miss  Leonard  to  Harry  Braham,  the  musical  director 
of  the  company.  She  then  retired  from  the  stage,  but  soon 
sought  it  again,  and  obtained  an  engagement  from  Tony  Pastor 
who  offered  her  fifty  dollars  a  week  to  sing  ballads  in  the  old 
Tony  Pastor  Theatre  iu  Broadway,  New  York,  opposite  Niblo's 
Garden,  after  hearing  her  sing  in  a  theatrical  boarding-house 
where  he  had  called  on  a  woman  playing  at  his  theatre.  He- 
suggested  the  stage  name  of  Lillian  Russell  for  his  new  recruit,. 


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and  she  adopted  it.  Miss  Russell  relates  that  on  the  first  night 
she  appeared  at  Pastor's  Theatre  she  sang  in  a  trance,  not 
knowing  what  occurred  from  the  time  she  went  on  until  she 
reached  her  dressing-room.  Nevertheless,  her  appearance  was  a 
much-talked-of  success.  Her  songs  were  "The  Kerry  Dance," 
"Twickenham  Ferry"  and  other  ballads  of  a  like  nature.  She 
next  appeared  with  Pastor's  burlesque  companies  in  "Olivette," 
and  "The  Pirates  of  Penzance,"  and  in  his  condensed  version  of 
"Patience."  After  singing  under  the  management  of  Colonel 
John  A.  McCaull  at  the  Bijou  Opera  House,  New  York,  October 
21,  1881,  as  D'Jemma  in  "The  Snake  Charmer,"  Miss  Russell 
made  a  tour  to  the  Pacific  Coast  with  a  company  managed  by 
Frank  Sanger,  singing  leading  light  opera  roles.  After  a  sea 
son's  concert  tour  she  made  her  first  appearance  at  the  Casino, 
New  York,  in  1884  as  Constance  in  "The  Sorcerer."  The  role 
of  Prince  Raphael  in  "The  Princess  of  Trebizonde"  followed  at 
the  same  theatre.  During  this  engagement,  on  May  10,  1884,  at 
Hoboken,  N.  J.,  Miss  Russell  was  married  to  Edward  Solomon, 
the  leader  of  the  Casino  orchestra,  having  been  divorced  from 
Mr.  Braham  four  days  previously.  With  her  husband  Miss  Rus 
sell  then  went  to  London  where  they  remained  for  two  years, 
Miss  Russell  appearing  there  in  two  operas  written  for  her  by 
her  husband — "Virginia"  at  the  Gaiety  Theatre,  and  "Polly"  at 
the  London  Novelty.  While  they  were  there  Solomon  was 
claimed  as  husband  by  Lillie  Grey,  a  music  hall  singer,  and  he 
and  Miss  Russell  separated,  she  returning  to  the  United  States 
in  1886  and  joining  the  Duff  Opera  Company,  with  which  she 
remained  for  two  years.  She  then  resumed  her  place  at  the 
head  of  the  New  York  Casino  forces,  singing  Eielka  in  "Nadjy," 
Pepita  in  "Pepita,"  Dorothy  in  "Dorothy,"  Anita  in  "Queen's 
Mate,"  Florella  in  "The  Brigands,"  Grand  Duchess  in  "The 
Grand  Duchess,"  Harriett  in  "Poor  Jonathan,"  Theresa  in  "The 
Mountebanks,"  Girofle  Girofla  in  "Girofle  Girofla,"  and  Rosa  in 
"The  Princess  Nicotine."  On  January  22,  1894,  she  was  mar 
ried  in  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  to  Giovanni  Perugini  (John  Chatterton), 
the  tenor  of  "The  Princess  Nicotine"  company,  her  marriage  to 
Mr.  Solomon  having  been  annulled,  she  receiving  the  custody  of 
their  daughter.  The  season  of  1897-8  Miss  Russell,  who  had 
previously  separated  from  Signer  Perugini,  appeared  with  Delia 
Fox  and  Jefferson  De  Angelis  at  the  Casino  in  "The  Wedding 
Day."  The  next  season  she  played  in  "La  Belle  Helene."  The 
seasons  of  1899-1900  she  was  a  member  of  the  Weber  &  Fields 
Stock  Company  at  their  New  York  music  hall.  Her  last  appear 
ance  was  in  1905  in  the  opera  "Lady  Teazle,"  founded  on  Sheri 
dan's  comedy.  The  fall  season  of  1906  she  starred  in  a  comedy 


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without  music,  called  "Barbara's  Millions."  The  season  of  1906-7 
in  "The  Butterfly,"  and  the  season  of  1907-8  in  "Wildfire."  Miss 
Russell's  home  is  at  161  West  Fifty-seventh  street,  New  York. 

BTJSSELL,  Harold: 

Actor,  was  born  and  educated  in  Boston,  Mass.;  made  his 
first  appearance  on  the  stage  at  the  Third  Avenue  Theatre,  New 
York,  in  1884,  playing  the  role  of  Tirandel  in  "The  Parisian  Ro 
mance"  with  the  late  Richard  Mansfield.  Two  years  later  he 
joined  the  Augustin  Daly  Company,  under  Arthur  Rehan's  man 
agement,  appearing  in  the  leading  comedy  roles  in  "Love  in 
Harness,"  "Nancy  &  Co.,"  "A  Night  Off,"  etc.,  and  remained  with 
that  organization  until  1888.  In  1892  he  was  engaged  by  Col. 
William  E.  Sinn  to  support  his  wife,  Cora  Tanner,  on  tour.  Mr. 
Russell  was  seen  as  principal  comedian  with  John  Drew  in 
1892,  originating  the  part  of  Martinet  in  "The  Masked  Ball," 
and  later  was  engaged  by  August  Pitou  to  create  the  role  of 
Marshal  Le  Febre  in  "Madame  Sans  Gene."  In  1897  he  ap 
peared  with  Charles  Coghlan  in  "The  Royal  Box"  at  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Theatre,  New  York,  and  in  1899  created  the  part  of  the 
Husband  in  Augustus  Thomas's  "The  Meddler,"  with  Stuart 
Robson,  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York.  Subseqeuntly  he  was 
seen  as  Lord  Robert  Ure,  with  Viola  Allen,  in  "The  Christian," 
and  later  was  associated  with  Sarah  Cowell  Lemoyne  as  leading 
man  in  "The  Duchess  of  Maryborough,"  "Among  Those  Present" 
and  "The  School  for  Husbands."  The  season  of  1906-7  he  ap 
peared  as  Big  Bill,  the  cowboy,  in  "The  Squaw  Man,"  with  Will 
iam  Faversham,  and  on  July  15,  1907,  was  seen  as  James  Phelan 
in  "The  Man  of  the  Hour"  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York,  and 
continued  in  that  role  throughout  the  season  of  1907-8.  Mr.  Rus 
sell  is  the  husband  of  Ada  Dwyer,  the  well-known  actress.  He 
has  one  daughter.  His  summer  home  is  at  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah. 

KYLEY,  Madeline  Lucette  (Mrs.  J.  H.  Ryley) : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  London,  England.  She  first  was  an 
actress,  and  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  at  the  age 
of  fourteen.  For  several  years  she  played  with  provincial  com 
panies  on  tours.  Tiring  of  this,  she  decided  to  try  her  hand  at 
playmaking.  Her  first  effort  was  a  comedy  for  Nat  C.  Goodwin, 
called  "An  American  Citizen,"  produced  in  1890.  Since  then 
she  has  written  twenty-seven  plays,  all  of  which  have  been  suc 
cessful  from  a  business  point  of  view.  Among  them  are  "Chris 
topher,  Jr.,"  written  for  John  Drew;  "Lady  Jemima,"  "Valen 
tine  Days,"  and  "A  Coat  of  Many  Colors."  She  is  the  wife  of 
J.  H.  Ryley,  the  comedian. 


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SABEL,  Miss  Josephine  (Mrs.  David  Sabel)  : 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  Lawrence,  near  Boston, 
Mass.,  and  commenced  her  career  as  a  child,  singing  in  church 
choirs.  She  made  her  stage  debut  in  1887,  and  after  appearing 
in  comic  opera  and  musical  comedies,  in  1893  she  went  into 
vaudeville,  and  has  since  remained  in  that  line  of  business.  One 
of  her  greatest  successes  was  the  song  "There'll  Be  a  Hot  Time 
in  the  Old  Town  To-night,"  which  she  introduced  in  1897,  and 
which  caught  the  country.  Since  then  she  has  toured  the 
world,  introducing  coon  songs  in  all  the  foreign  capitals.  The 
season  of  1907-8  she  was  again  seen  in  this  country  in  vaudeville. 

SANDERSON,  Miss  Julia  (Mrs.  J.  Todhunter  Sloan) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  August  20,  1887,  be 
ing  the  daughter  of  Albert  Sackett,  a  well-known  actor,  who  was 
seen,  the  season  of  1906-7,  in  "Brewster's  Millions."  She  was 
educated  at  the  public  schools  in  Springfield  and  Philadelphia, 
and  she  made  her  first  appearance  in  Forepaugh's  Stock  Com 
pany  in  that  city  as  a  child,  remaining  with  that  organization 
five  years.  Her  next  engagement  was  in  the  chorus  of  "Win 
some  Winnie"  and  as  understudy  to  Miss  Paula  Edwardes.  She 
next  played  Mrs.  Pineapple  in  "The  Chinese  Honeymoon."  She- 
was  then  engaged  to  support  De  Wolf  Hopper,  playing  the  part 
of  Mataya  in  "Wang."  She  played  the  ingenue  part  in  "Fan- 
tana"  for  a  season,  and  was  in  the  cast  of  "The  Tourists,"  scor 
ing  a  pronounced  success,  after  which  she  went  into  vaudeville. 
She  was  then  engaged  by  Charles  Frohman  for  the  part  of  Peggy 
in  "The  Dairymaids,"  opening  at  Atlantic  City  August  19,  1907, 
and  later  appearing  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New  York,  and  on 
tour  the  season  of  1907-8.  Miss  Sanderson  was  married  to  James 
Todhunter  Sloan,  known  as  "Tod"  Sloan,  the  celebrated  jockey, 
September  21,  1907.  Her  home  is  at  92  Firglade  avenue,  Spring 
field,  Mass.,  and  her  New  York  address  is  430  West  Thirty-fourth 
street. 

SARDOU,  Victorien: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Paris  September  7,  1831,  being  the 
son  of  Leander  Sardou,  a  lexicographer.  He  first  studied  medi 
cine,  with  the  idea  of  later  becoming  a  physician,  but  soon  gave 
up  both  the  study  and  idea,  and  began  writing  for  the  stage. 
His  first  work,  a  complete  failure,  entitled  "La  Taverne  des 
Etudiants,"  was  produced  in  1854  at  the  Odeon  Theatre,  Paris. 
Then  followed  numerous  successes,  among  them  "Les  Pattes  do 
Mouche,"  produced  in  1860,  and  later  adapted  for  the  English 
stage  under  the  title  "A  Scrap  of  Paper";  "Rabagas,"  1872; 


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"L'Oncle  Sam,"  produced  in  America  in  1873;  "Dora,"  1877: 
"Divorgons,"  produced  in  France  in  1880  and  seen  in  New  York 
with  Grace  George  during  the  season  of  1907-8;  "Mme.  Sans 
Gene,"  written  in  collaboration  with  Emile  Moreau,  1893;  "Pa 
mela,"  1898,  and  various  other  clever  comedies.  Included  in  his 
large  list  of  dramas  are:  "Patrie,"  1869;  "La  Haine,"  1874;  "Fe 
dora,"  1882;  "Theodora,"  1884;  "La  Tosca,"  1887;  "Cleopatre," 
1890;  "La  Sorciere,"  produced  in  Paris  in  1890  with  Sarah 
Bernhardt  in  the  title  role  and  later  in  this  country  with  Mrs. 
Patrick  Campbell;  "Robespierre,"  1899;  "Dante,"  in  collabora 
tion  with  M.  Moreau,  1899;  "Les  Merveilleuses,"  and  "La  Piste," 
both  produced  in  Paris  in  1906.  The  drama  "Patrie"  is  consid 
ered  his  masterpiece.  Sardou's  home  is  at  64  Boulevard  de  Cour- 
celles,  Paris,  and  his  summer  address  Marly-le-Roi,  Seine-et-Oise, 
France. 

SAXE,  Templer  (Templer  Edward  Edeveain) : 

Actor  and  singer,  was  born  at  Redhill,  Surrey,  England,  in 
1866,  being  the  son  of  Eaton  Edeveain,  barrister-at-law,  and  his 
wife,  Lady  de  Capelbroke.  He  was  educated  at  Brussels  and 
Bonn  universities.  Having  studied  singing  under  Neville  Hughes, 
of  London,  he  made  his  first  appearance  as  the  Blacksmith  in 
"Tally  Ho!"  at  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gerran  Reed's  Entertainment,  St. 
George's  Hall,  London,  in  1886.  He  then  joined  the  Carl  Rosa 
light  opera  company,  playing  Ruffino  in  "Paul  Jones"  and  un 
derstudying  Agnes  Huntington  in  the  title  part.  In  1888  he  un 
derstudied  Hayden  Coffin  and  played  the  principal  part  in  the 
opera  "Marjorie"  in  the  English  provinces.  He  next  played  in 
"Miss  Decima,"  known  in  this  country  as  "Miss  Helyett,"  and 
in  which  he  played  the  baritone  part  of  Tom  Brown  at  the  Cri 
terion  Theatre,  London,  in  1891,  and  in  "Morocco  Bound"  in 
1892.  He  then  went  to  South  Africa  and  played  fifteen  parts  in 
light  operas  during  a  season  of  six  months.  Returning  to  Eng 
land,  he  played  in  "The  Gaiety  Girl"  three  consecutive  seasons. 
He  then  created  the  part  of  Felix  McAlister  in  "On  the  March" 
at  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Theatre,  London,  and  played  in  "All 
Aboard"  at  the  Court.  He  played  the  Marquis  in  a  revival  of 
"The  Chimes  of  Normandy,"  and  the  title  part  in  "Billberry  of 
Tilbury"  at  the  Criterion.  He  then  starred  in  the  English  prov 
inces  in  "Paul  Jones,"  and  after  a  season  singing  ballads  in 
vaudeville  houses  he  came  to  this  country  in  August,  1901,  mak 
ing  his  first  appearance  the  following  month  in  "The  Ladies' 
Paradise"  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New  York.  After  an 
engagement  in  "The  Chaperones"  with  Frank  Perley,  he  resumed 
his  part  in  "The  Ladies'  Paradise,"  then  called  "My  Antoinette." 


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He  then  played  his  old  part  in  "Morocco  Bound,"  following  that 
with  his  first  big  success  in  this  country  as  Lieutenant  Hardy 
in  "The  Sultan  of  Sulu,"  which  ran  six  months  at  Wallack's 
Theatre,  New  York.  He  created  the  baritone  part  in  "An  Eng 
lish  Daisy"  at  the  Casino,  and  PifC  in  "Piff,  Paff,  Pouf"  at  the 
same  theatre.  The  season  of  1905-6  he  played  the  Hon.  Crew 
Boodle  in  "The  Earl  and  the  Girl."  The  season  of  1906-7  he 
played  the  baritone  part  in  "The  Blue  Moon,"  and  was  seen  in 
"Yama"  the  season  of  1907-8.  Mr.  Saxe  is  a  member  of  the  Sav 
age,  Eccentric,  Green  Room,  Playgoers'  and  National  Sporting 
clubs,  of  London,  and  the  Green  Room  Club,  New  York. 

SAYRE,  Theodore  Burt: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  New  York  December  18,  1874.  He 
was  educated  at  the  University  Grammar  School,  was  graduated 
from  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1892;  and  became 
official  play  reader  for  Charles  Frohman  in  1899,  an  office  which 
he  has  held  ever  since.  He  had  made  his  mark  as  a  writer  of 
novels  before  he  produced  his  first  play,  "The  Wife  of  Willough- 
by,"  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1896.  The  following 
year  his  "Charles  O'Malley"  was  produced  at  Washington,  D.  C. 
His  plays  since  then  have  been  "Two  Rogues  and  a  Romance," 
produced  in  1898  at  St.  Louis;  "The  Son  of  Carleycroft,"  at 
Boston,  in  1900;  "A  Classical  Cowboy,"  1900;  "Manon  Lescaut," 
1901,  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York;  "Tom  Moore,"  at  the 
Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York;  "The  Bold  Soger  Boy,"  at 
the  Fourteenth  Street  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1903,  and  "Edmund 
Burke,"  produced  at  the  Majestic  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1905. 
Mr.  Sayre  is  the  author  of  "Eileen  Asthore,"  written  for  Chaun- 
cey  Olcott  and  produced  at  the  New  York  Theatre  in  1906.  His 
latest  work  is  "O'Niell  of  Derry,"  in  which  Mr.  Olcott  starred 
the  season  of  1907-8.  Mr.  Sayre  married  Laura  Helen  de  Gu- 
moens  April  6,  1904.  His  home  is  at  63  West  Forty-sixth  street, 

New  York. 

j 

SCHEFF,  Madame  Fritzi  (Madame  von  Bardeleben) : 

Grand  and  comic  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  in  Vienna, 
her  maiden  name  being  Anna  Scheff  Yager.  Her  mother,  Hor- 
tense  Scheff,  was  a  prima  donna  at  the  Imperial  Opera  House, 
Vienna,  and  her  father,  Dr.  Yager,  a  physician  of  the  Austrian 
capital.  When  she  was  five  years  old  Miss  Yager  sang  in  a 
church  choir,  and  when  she  was  eight  years  old  was  spoken  of 
as  a  prodigy.  After  completing  vocal  study  at  Dresden  and 
Frankfort  she  made  her  stage  debut  in  the  latter  city  as  Juliet 
in  "Romeo  and  Juliet."  After  singing  prima  donna  roles  in 


388  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

"Faust,"  "Cavalleria  Rusticana,"  "La  Boheme,"  and  "Mignon" 
for  two  years  in  Frankfort,  she  went  to  Munich,  and  there  Mau 
rice  Grau  heard  her.  She  signed  a  three  years'  contract  with 
him,  making  her  first  American  appearance  at  the  Metropolitan 
Opera  House,  New  York,  as  Marzelline  in  "Fidelio"  December 
28,  1900.  That  season  she  appeared  as  a  Rhine  Maiden  in  "Rhein- 
gold,"  and  "Gotterdammerung";  as  a  Valkyr  in  "Walkiire,"  as 
the  unseen  Forest  Bird  in  "Siegfried,"  Zerlina  in  "Don  Giovan 
ni,"  and  Musetta  in  "La  Boheme."  The  following  season  she 
was  the  Cherubino  of  "The  Marriage  of  Figaro,"  the  Papagena 
of  "The  Magic  Flute,"  the  Nedda  of  "Pagliacci,"  and  the  Asa  of 
Paderewski's  "Manru."  During  the  interval  between  these  two 
seasons  Fritzi  Scheff  became  the  wife  of  Baron  Fritz  von  Barde- 
leben,  a  German  captain  of  hussars.  When  it  became  known 
that  Maurice  Grau  was  to  give  up  the  management  of  the  Metro 
politan  Opera  House  Charles  B.  Dillingham  made  Fritzi  Scheff 
an  offer  to  star  in  comic  opera  under  his  management.  She  ac 
cepted  and  made  her  debut  in  that  field  at  the  Broadway  Thea 
tre  in  November,  1903,  as  Babette  in  the  opera  of  that  name  by 
Harry  B.  Smith  and  Victor  Herbert.  The  next  season  she  ap 
peared  in  "The  Two  Roses,"  a  musical  version  of  "She  Stoops  to 
Conquer,"  by  Stanislaus  Stange  and  Ludwig  Englander.  Mr. 
Dillingham  then  revived  for  her  a  series  of  the  old  light  operas, 
Lecoq's  "Girofle  Girofla"  and  Von  Suppe's,  "Boccaccio"  and  "Fati- 
nitza"  being  among  them.  The  seasons  of  1905  to  1908  she  ap 
peared  in  "Mile.  Modiste,"  by  Henry  Blossom  and  Victor  Her 
bert. 

SCHRADER,  Frederick  Franklin: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Hamburg,  Germany,  October  27, 
1857.  He  was  for  twelve  years  on  the  staff  of  the  Washington 
Post  and  became  well  known  as  the  dramatic  critic  of  that 
paper.  His  first  play,  a  sensational  border  drama,  entitled 
"  Haw  key  e,"  was  played  for  five  years  by  Arthur  Sprague.  His 
other  plays  are  "A  Modern  Lady  Godiva"  (Amelia  Bingham), 
"The  French  Ball"  (Fanny  Rice),  "The  Man  from  Texas,"  and 
the  adaptation  of  an  opera  by  Suppe  for  Heinrich  Conried.  He 
was  at  one  time  manager  of  Pope's  Theatre,  St.  Louis,  previous 
to  which  he  managed  Tootle's  Opera  House  at  St.  Joseph,  Mo., 
for  three  years.  Mr.  Schrader  has  been  managing  editor  of  the 
Denver  Republican  and  other  Western  newspapers.  His  home  is 
at  1  West  Eighty-second  street,  New  York. 

SCHUMANN-HEINK,  Madame: 

Grand  opera  prima  donna,  was  born  in  Lieben,  near  Prague, 
June  15,  1861,  her  father  being  an  Austrian  mayor.  Her  maiden 


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name  was  Ernestine  Roessler.  She  was  educated  in  the  Ursuline 
Convent  at  Prague,  where  also  she  began  her  singing.  Before 
she  was  seventeen  years  old  she  was  engaged  as  principal  con 
tralto  of  the  Dresden  Court  Opera,  and  she  made  her  entrance 
on  the  stage  October  15,  1878,  as  Azucena  in  "II  Trovatore."  In 
the  fourth  year  of  her  service  at  the  Court  Opera  her  contract, 
was  canceled  because  of  her  marriage  without  the  consent  of 
the  "Intendanz."  After  an  absence  of  more  than  a  year,  during 
which  time  all  efforts  at  again  procuring  an  engagement  even 
as  a  member  of  the  chorus  were  unavailing,  she  reappeared  in 
Hamburg  in  the  fall  of  1883,  and  afterwards  in  various  opera 
houses  and  concert  halls  of  Europe.  Her  success  at  Bayreuth  in 
1896  brought  her  offers  from  Maurice  Grau,  with  whom  she 
signed  a  contract  for  1898.  Since  that  time  she  has  been  in 
America,  which  is  now  her  home.  She  has  appeared  in  all  of 
the  principal  cities.  Early  in  1908  she  appeared  in  "II  Trova 
tore"  at  the  Manhattan  Opera  House,  New  York. 

SCOTT,  Miss  Agnes: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  and  made  her  first 
appearance  the  season  of  1900-1  with  the  Berger  Stock  Company 
at  the  Lafayette  Square  Opera  House  in  Washington,  D.  C., 
playing  small  parts.  The  following  two  seasons  she  was  with 
Chase's  Musical  Comedy  Company.  She  then  joined  the  Wells- 
Dunn-Harlen  Company,  and  in  1904  became  a  member  of  the 
Mordaunt  Humphrey  Stock  Company  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  The  fall 
of  1904  Miss  Scott  played  a  leading  part  in  "Common  Sense 
Brackett"  with  Richard  Golden,  and  the  following  spring  she 
became  a  member  of  the  Proctor  Stock  Company  at  the  One 
Hundred  and  Twenty-fifth  Street  Theatre,  New  York.  She  re 
mained  with  the  organization  nearly  three  years,  and  the  sea 
son  of  1907-8  she  was  seen  in  vaudeville,  playing  a  sketch  called 
"The  Parting  Wall." 

SCOTT,  Cyril: 

Comedian,  was  born  at  Banbridge,  County  Down,  Ireland, 
February  9,  1866,  and  came  to  the  United  States  with  his  parents 
at  an  early  age.  He  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in 
August,  1883,  in  Paterson,  N.  J.,  in  "The  Girl  I  Love;  or,  The 
Diamond  Mystery."  He  had  previously,  as  a  schoolboy,  per 
formed  as  a  minstrel,  and  it  was  at  the  suggestion  of  a  dramatic 
critic  of  a  New  York  newspaper  who  had  seen  him  in  "black 
face"  that  he  sought  a  stage  career.  He  played  two  roles  in  his 
first  engagement,  one  of  them  that  of  a  negro,  and  received  three 
dollars  a  week  and  his  board.  His  second  engagement  was  with 


390  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Minnie  Maddern  in  "Caprice"  at  fifteen  dollars  a  week.  When 
that  play  passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Frohman  brothers — 
Charles,  Daniel  and  Gustave — they  retained  Mr.  Scott  and  ad 
vanced  his  salary  to  thirty  dollars  a  week.  From  that  time  on 
his  rise  was  rapid.  In  1884,  1885  and  1886  he  played  with  Min 
nie  Maddern  in  "in  Spite  of  All"  and  "Caprice,"  and  the  sea 
son  of  1886-7  appeared  with  Richard  Mansfield  in  "Prince  Karl" 
and  other  plays.  The  following  season  he  played  with  Lotta  in 
"Pawn  Ticket  210"  and  "The  Little  Detective,"  and  in  1888-9 
supported  E.  H.  Sothern  in  "Lord  Chumley,"  "The  Highest  Bid 
der,"  and  "The  Minister  of  Woodbarrow."  The  following  season 
he  joined  the  Lyceum  Theatre  Stock  Company,  prominent  among 
his  many  roles  being  those  in  "Sweet  Lavender"  and  "Old  Heads 
and  Young  Hearts."  Charles  Frohman  then  engaged  him  for 
his  stock  company,  and  with  that  organization  Mr.  Scott  played 
in  "Men  and  Women,"  "The  Lost  Paradise,"  "The  Councillor's 
Wife,"  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me,"  "The  Younger  Son,"  "Sow 
ing  the  Wind,"  "The  Luck  of  Roaring  Camp,"  and  "The  Gudg 
eons."  Then  followed  seasons  with  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  in  "The 
Heart  of  Maryland,"  "My  Friend  from  India,"  and  "Lost,  Strayed 
or  Stolen."  He  then  entered  the  musical  comedy  field  and  im 
mediately  became  one  of  the  most  popular  and  successful  sing 
ing  comedians  of  the  day,  roles  with  Augustin  Daly's  company 
in  "The  Circus  Girl,"  "The  Geisha,"  and  "Runaway  Girl"  being 
his  principal  successes.  Later  engagements  were  with  Anna 
Held  in  "Papa's  Wife,"  in  "The  Lady  Slavey,"  "The  Casino 
Girl,"  and  "Florodora."  In  1905  he  returned  to  legitimate  com 
edy,  appearing  in  "The  Prince  Chap,"  which  had  a  long  run  in 
New  York,  and  in  which  he  continued  to  star  the  seasons  oi 
1906-7-8.  Mr.  Scott  married  Louise  Eissing,  prima  donna  of 
the  Henderson  Extravaganza  Company.  His  home  is  at  Bayside, 
Long  Island. 

SEABROOKE,  Thomas  Quigley: 

Comedian,  was  born  in  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  October  20, 
1860.  He  attended  the  public  schools  there,  and  when  eleven 
years  old  obtained  employment  at  the  East  Chester  National 
Bank.  He  was  afterward  teller  in  the  banking-house  of  J.  M. 
Masterson  &  Co.  He  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage 
September  11,  1880,  at  Westerly,  R.  I.,  as  Bertie  Cecil  in  "Cigar 
ette,"  a  play  founded  on  Ouida's  novel  "Under  Two  Flags."  He 
next  played  with  Helen  Coleman  in  "The  Widow  Bedotte,"  and 
in  1882  was  in  a  stock  company  at  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia.  The 
following  season  he  played  the  Detective  in  "Rooms  to  Rent," 
and  the  following  year  John  Mandamus  in  "Irish  Aristocracy." 


WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE  391. 

He  made  his  first  New  York  appearance  at  the  Academy  of 
Music  in  the  same  part  the  fall  of  1882.  In  July,  1883,  he  mar 
ried  Elvia  Crox,  an  actress,  from  whom  he  was  divorced.  He  aft 
erward  married  Mrs.  Jeanette  Lowrie,  an  actress.  The  season  of 
1883-4  Mr.  Seabrooke  played  juvenile  lead  with  Jeffreys  Lewis  in 
"The  Ruling  Passion,  "and  throughout  a  stock  season  at  the  Bald 
win  Theatre,  San  Francisco.  After  supporting  Barney  McAuley  for 
a  time,  as  a  member  of  George  Holland's  company,  Mr.  Seabrooke 
played  his  first  comedy  role.  It  was  in  "Ten  Nights  in  a  Barroom." 
Dashing  into  the  field  of  farce  comedy,  he  made  hits  in  "Two 
Bad  Men"  and  "Aphrodite."  He  then  created  the  part  of  Oleo 
Masherine  in  "Keep  It  Dark."  In  1886  he  was  seen  in  Hoyt's 
"A  Tin  Soldier,"  and  in  1888  he  was  with  Kate  Castleton  in  "A 
Paper  Doll."  In  November  of  that  year  he  made  his  first  ap 
pearance  in  comic  opera  as  General  Knickerbocker  in  "The  Lit 
tle  Tycoon."  He  then  created  the  part  of  Deacon  Tldd  in  "The 
Midnight  Bell"  February  18,  1889.  The  following  year  he  be 
came  a  star  in  the  comic  opera  "The  Fakir."  In  1900  he  was 
with  De  Wolf  Hopper  in  "Castles  in  the  Air."  Mr.  Seabrooke 
made  his  first  great  success  in  "The  Isle  of  Champagne,"  which 
was  produced  in  May,  1892,  and  ran  for  nearly  three  years. 
"Tobasco"  was  Mr.  Seabrooke's  next  opera,  produced  in  Boston 
in  1894.  This  was  followed  by  a  farce  called  "A  World  of 
Trouble,"  and  "The  Speculator."  He  then  appeared  in  "Yankee 
Doodle  Dandy,"  in  "Erminie,"  in  "The  Rounders,"  in  "Piff, 
Paff,  Pouf,"  and  in  the  spring  of  1906  he  was  in  "The  Alcayde," 
produced  in  Chicago.  The  fall  season  of  1906-7  he  played  in  a 
sketch  with  Pauline  Hall  in  the  vaudeville  houses,  and  continued 
in  vaudeville  the  season  of  1907-8. 

SELWYN,  Edgar: 

Actor  and  playwright,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Octo 
ber  20,  1875,  and  was  educated  in  Toronto,  Canada.  His  first 
connection  with  the  dramatic  profession  was  as  an  usher  at  the 
Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York.  He  made  his  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  in  "Secret  Service"  with  William  Gillette  at 
the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  in  October,  1896.  The  follow 
ing  season  he  was  in  stock  companies  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and 
at  the  Third  Avenue  Theatre,  New  York.  On  February  27,  1899, 
he  appeared  as  Dugard  with  E.  H.  Sothern  in  "The  King's 
Musketeers"  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New  York,  and  aft 
erward  played  Tony  in  "Arizona."  The  seasons  of  1900-1-2  he 
was  with  Kyrle  Bellew  in  "The  Gentleman  of  France";  1903-4, 
he  played  Jose  in  "The  Pretty  Sister  of  Jose"  with  Maude 
Adams;  1904-5,  Jacky  with  Ethel  Barrymore  in  "Sunday,"  also 


392  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Dr.  Rank  in  "A  Doll's  House"  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  and  Jim 
my  Antrobus  in  "Gypsy"  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York.  He 
played  Perryton  Carlyle  in  "The  Little  Gray  Lady"  November, 
1905;  Donald  Burnside  in  "Popularity,"  1906;  and  Frederick 
Payton  in  "The  Mills  of  the  Gods"  at  the  Astor  Theatre,  New 
York,  March,  1907.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  starred  in  "Strong- 
heart."  Mr.  Selwyn  is  senior  member  of  Selwyn  &  Co.,  play 
brokers,  and  author  of  the  following  plays:  "A  Rough  Rider's 
Romance,"  "The  Original  Cohen,"  "The  Adoption  of  Archibald," 
"It's  All  Your  Fault,"  "The  Energetic  West,"  and  many  one-act 
pieces.  He  married  Margaret  Mayo,  actress  and  playwright, 
May  16,  1901.  His  business  address  is  1402  Broadway,  New 
York. 

SEYMOUR,  William: 

Stage  director,  was  born  in  New  York  December  19,  1855. 
He  began  his  stage  career  as  an  actor  of  boy  parts  at  the  Varie 
ties  Theatre,  New  Orleans,  in  1862,  and  remained  there  until 
1869.  He  was  call  boy  at  Booth's  Theatre  from  1869  to  1871, 
a,nd  then  went  to  the  Globe  Theatre,  Boston,  for  a  season.  From 
1872  to  1875  he  was  stage  manager  of  the  Varieties  Theatre, 
New  Orleans,  and  with  Lawrence  Barrett,  and  was  with  A.  M. 
Palmer  for  two  years  at  the  Union  Square  Theatre,  New  York. 
From  1877  to  1879  he  was  stage  manager  of  the  California  and 
Baldwin's  theatres,  San  Francisco,  and  then  became  stage  direc 
tor  at  the  Boston  Museum,  a  place  he  occupied  ten  years.  In 
1890  he  became  manager  for  Abbey,  Schoeffel  &  Grau,  of  the 
Tremont  Theatre,  Boston,  staying  there  nine  years.  One  season 
he  was  general  manager  with  Maurice  Grau  at  the  Metropolitan 
Opera  House,  New  York.  He  next  became  associated  with  the 
productions  of  Charles  Frohman,  whose  general  stage  director 
he  has  been  since  June  1,  1904.  Mr.  Seymour  married  May,  a 
daughter  of  E.  L.  Davenport  and  sister  of  Fanny  Davenport, 
January  8,  1882.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Players,  New  York. 
His  home  is  at  South  Duxbury,  Mass.  His  business  address  is 
Empire  Theatre,  New  York. 

SHALEK,  Miss  Bertha: 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  Chicago  January  2,  1884. 
She  was  educated  in  New  York  City,  and  before  going  on  the 
stage  attained  some  fame  as  a  violiniste.  She  made  her  first 
professional  appearance  in  the  title  role  of  Bizet's  "Carmen"  at 
the  Providence  (R.  I.)  Opera  House,  in  1903,  under  the  manage 
ment  of  Felix  Hendelshaffer.  After  doing  stock  work  in  Provi 
dence  she  played  "Dolly  Varden"  under  the  management  of  F.  C. 


WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE  393 

Whitney,  and  then  became  prima  donna  with  De  Wolf  Hopper, 
playing  in  "Happyland"  arid  "Wang."  She  was  next  engaged  by 
John  Cort  to  play  in  "Babette,"  and  "Two  Roses."  The  sum 
mer  season  of  1907  she  was  with  the  Van  den  Berg  Opera  Com 
pany  at  the  West  End  Theatre,  New  York,  and  made  a  conspicu 
ous  success  as  "Carmen."  The  fall  season  of  the  same  year 
she  was  prima  donna  with  the  "Yankee  Regent"  opera  company, 
opening  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  August  23.  Miss  Shalek's  New  York 
address  is  230  West  Ninety-ninth  street. 

SHANNON,  Miss  Effie: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  her  father  being  a 
native  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.  She  made  her  first  appearance  on 
the  stage  as  a  child,  in  a  crowd  of  "supers,"  in  John  McCul- 
lough's  revival  of  "Coriolanus"  at  the  Boston  Theatre.  Her  first 
speaking  part  was  Little  Eva  in  a  production  of  "Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin"  at  the  Howard  Athenaeum,  Boston.  In  a  tour  of  the 
company  through  New  England  she  was  billed  as  "La  Petite 
Shannon."  Afterward  Miss  Shannon  played  children's  parts 
with  Lawrence  Barrett,  and  she  was  also  in  the  chorus  of  a 
children's  "Pinafore"  company,  Ida  Mulle  being  the  Josephine 
and  Fritz  Williams  the  Sir  Joseph  Porter.  Miss  Shannon's 
mother  then  took  her  to  New  York,  where  she  finished  her  edu 
cation,  and  then  played  a  small  part  in  "The  Silver  King."  She 
made  her  first  succcess  as  Rose  Leyburn  in  "Robert  Elsmere" 
with  Robert  Mantell  at  the  Union  Square  Theatre,  New  York, 
after  which  she  joined  the  Augustin  Daly  company,  remaining 
with  it  a  year  and  a  half.  In  1887  Miss  Shannon  became  a 
member  of  Daniel  Frohman's  Lyceum  Company  and  made  suc 
cesses  as  Kittie  Ives  in  "The  Wife,"  Kate  in  "The  Idler,"  and 
Bess  in  "The  Charity  Ball."  Miss  Shannon  was  married  to 
Henry  Guy  Carleton,  the  playwright,  April  10,  1890,  obtaining 
a  divorce  from  him  about  three  years  later.  Miss  Shannon  played 
Dora  in  "Diplomacy"  with  Rose  Coghlan  in  1893,  and  afterward 
supported  Mrs.  Langtry  in  "Gossip,"  and  Olga  Nethersole.  She 
then  became  joint  star  with  Mr.  Kelcey  in  "The  Moth  and  the 
Flame,"  which  ran  several  seasons.  In  January,  1901,  she  ap 
peared  in  "My  Lady  Dainty"  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre, 
New  York,  and  in  March  of  that  year  as  Manon  in  "Manon 
Lescaut"  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  New  York.  She  subse 
quently  appeared  with  Mr.  Kelcey  in  "Her  Lord  and  Master," 
"Sherlock  Holmes,"  "Taps,"  and  "The  Lightning  Conductor." 
Miss  Shannon  was  seen  in  "The  Daughters  of  Men"  on  Novem 
ber  19,  1906,  at  the  Astor  Theatre,  New  York,  and  toured  in 
"The  Walls  of  Jericho"  the  season  of  1907-8. 


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SHATTUCK,  Miss  Truly  (Mrs.  Stephen  A.  Douglas) : 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  an  adobe  house,  adjoining 
the  old  Mission  Church  of  San  Miguel,  in  San  Luis  Obispo 
County,  California,  July  27,  1876.  Her  maiden  name  was  Clarice 
Etrulia  de  Bucharde.  She  made  her  first  appearance  on  the 
stage  as  a  member  of  the  chorus  at  the  Tivoli  Opera  House,  San 
Francisco,  her  first  salary  being  eight  dollars  a  week.  Miss 
Shattuck  made  her  first  Eastern  success  in  the  part  of  Mephisto 
in  "Little  Faust,"  under  the  management  of  William  Parry,  the 
summer  of  1895.  After  a  season  in  vaudeville  she  played  in 
"The  English  Daisy"  for  twelve  weeks  at  Weber  &  Fields's, 
New  York.  Again  going  into  vaudeville  she  played  a  season, 
in  1899,  at  the  Winter  Garden,  Berlin,  Germany,  and  the  season 
of  1900  she  was  in  "The  American  Beauty"  in  London,  Eng 
land,  with  Edna  May.  She  joined  the  Cohan  and  Harris  forces 
on  returning  to  this  country,  and  played  with  them  three  suc 
cessive  seasons,  appearing  in  "Little  Johnny  Jones,"  "George 
Washington,  Jr.,"  and  "The  Governor's  Son."  The  fall  of  1907 
she  was  seen  in  "The  Lady  from  Lane's,"  which  opened  at  the 
Lyric  Theatre,  New  York,  August  18,  and  later  was  with  Joseph 
Weber  in  "Hip!  Hip!  Hooray!"  at  Weber's  Theatre,  New  York. 
Miss  Shattuck  was  married  to  Stephen  A.  Douglas  November 
15,  1900.  Her  New  York  address  is  181  West  End  avenue. 

SHAW,  George  Bernard: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  July  26,  1856.  He 
went  to  London  in  1876  and  became  a  prominent  Socialist  and 
an  art  critic,  writing  for  the  World  and  Henry  Labouchere'3 
Truth.  He  published  four  novels  between  1880  and  1883,  entitled 
"The  National  Knot,"  "Love  Among  the  Artists,"  "Cashel  By- 
ron's  Profession,"  and  "An  Unsocial  Socialist,"  in  addition  to 
many  pamphlets  on  Socialism  published  by  the  Fabian  Society, 
and  later  philosophical  essays,  "The  Quintessence  of  Ibsenism" 
and  "The  Perfect  Wagnerite."  He  wrote  weekly  articles  on 
music  in  the  London  Star  and  the  World,  and  articles  on  the 
drama  in  The  Saturday  Review.  He  has  written  many  plays, 
the  first  to  attract  attention  being  "Arms  and  the  Man,"  pro 
duced  by  Richard  Mansfield  in  New  York  in  1894.  Since  then 
his  plays,  some  of  which  have  been  prohibited  for  stage  pro 
duction,  have  been  of  a  character  to  make  them  unique  in  the 
literature  of  the  stage.  Among  them  are  "Mrs.  Warren's  Pro 
fession,"  produced  by  Arnold  Daly  in  1905,  which  was  taken- 
from  the  boards  after  one  performance  in  New  York,  and  sub 
sequently  revived;  "The  Admirable  Bashville,"  "How  He  Lied 
to  Her  Husband,"  "Man  and  Superman,"  "Caesar  and  Cleopatra," 


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"Candida,"  and  "The  Devil's  Disciple."  Mr.  Shaw  married  Miss 
C.  F.  Payne-Townshend  in  1898.  He  is  a  vegetarian.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  London  Borough  Council,  St.  Pancras  division. 
His  home  is  at  29  Fitzroy  square,  London,  W. 

SHAW,  Miss  Mary: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston,  being  the  daughter  of  Levi  W. 
Shaw.  She  was  graduated  from  the  high  schools  there,  and  for 
a  short  time  taught  in  the  public  schools.  At  this  time  she 
took  part  in  several  amateur  dramatic  performances.  Desiring 
to  become  a  professional  actress,  she  obtained  a  letter  of  intro 
duction  from  John  Boyle  O'Reilly  to  Dion  Boucicault.  She  ob 
tained  an  engagement  to  play  Chorus  in  an  extravaganza  at 
the  Boston  Museum,  and  in  this  part  made  her  first  appearance 
on  the  professional  stage  through  a  trap  in  the  floor.  She  re 
mained  two  years  with  the  Boston  Museum  company,  after  which 
she  was  engaged  by  Augustin  Daly  and  played  at  his  theatre  for 
a  season.  She  supported  Fanny  Davenport.  For  four  years  she 
was  leading  woman  with  Madame  Modjeska  and  attracted  much 
attention  as  Queen  Elizabeth  in  "Marie  Stuart."  After  a  sea 
son  as  leading  woman  with  Julia  Marlowe,  during  her  first  star 
ring  tour,  Miss  Shaw  appeared  in  "A  Drop  of  Poison,"  an  adap 
tation  from  the  German  of  Oscar  Blumenthal.  She  then  played 
in  "A  Night's  Frolic,"  a  farce,  in  which  Helen  Barry  was  starred. 
In  1893  Miss  Shaw  was  seen  as  Rosalind  in  a  Professional  Wom 
an's  League  production  of  "As  You  Like  It"  at  the  Garden 
Theatre,  New  York.  Following  this  Miss  Shaw  played  Marion 
in  Mrs.  Fiske's  production  of  "Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles."  She 
afterward  created  the  part  of  Roxy  in  "Pudd'nhead  Wilson" 
with  Frank  Mayo;  played  a  season  with  Joseph  Jefferson,  and 
starred  with  Eben  Plympton  and  Edmund  Collier  in  a  Shake 
spearian  repertoire.  In  1898  she  made  the  greatest  success  of 
her  career  as  Mrs.  Alving  in  Ibsen's  "Ghosts,"  playing  the  role 
in  New  York  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre.  She  starred  for  thirty- 
seven  weeks  in  that  play,  going  through  the  country  as  far  West 
as  Colorado.  She  thus  was  the  first  American  actress  to  intro 
duce  the  work  of  the  Norwegian  playwright  to  the  general  Ameri 
can  public.  In  1899  the  International  Congress  of  Women,  con 
vening  in  London,  selected  Miss  Shaw  to  speak  at  St.  Martin's 
Town  Hall,  in  Trafalgar  square,  on  "The  Stage  as  a  Means  of 
Livelihood  in  America."  She  was  one  of  a  hundred  American 
women  invited  to  a  banquet  at  Windsor  Castle  by  Queen  Victoria 
that  summer.  In  October,  1905,  she  played  Mrs.  Warren  in 
Bernard  Shaw's  "Mrs.  Warren's  Profession"  at  its  initial  per 
formance  in  America  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York.  In 


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the  spring  of  1906  she  was  starred  by  the  Shuberts  in  "The  Love 
That  Blinds."  The  season  of  1906-7  she  toured  in  "Mrs.  War 
ren's  Profession."  Her  New  York  address  is  108  West  Forty- 
fifth  street. 

SHEEHAN,  Joseph  F.: 

Grand  opera  tenor,  was  born  in  Boston  where,  at  the  age 
of  fourteen,  he  had  gained  prominence  as  a  boy  soprano  through 
his  singing  in  church  choirs.  In  1892,  while  he  was  leading 
tenor  at  St.  Joseph's  Cathedral,  Boston,  Thomas  Q.  Seabrooke 
made  him  an  offer  to  join  the  "Isle  of  Champagne"  company. 
Mr.  Sheehan  accepted,  but  he  remained  with  the  company  only 
one  season,  leaving  it  to  appear  with  the  Bostonians  in  "Robin 
Hood,"  "Prince  Ananias,"  and  "The  Maid  of  Plymouth."  The 
following  season  he  sang  in  "Rob  Roy."  He  next  sang  the  lead 
ing  tenor  role  in  Smith  and  De  Koven's  "The  Mandarin,"  and 
at  the  end  of  that  engagement  became  a  member  of  Henry  W. 
Savage's  Castle  Square  Opera  Company.  With  this  company  he 
has  made  his  chief  success  in  singing  grand  opera  in  English, 
his  most  prominent  roles  being  in  "I  Pagliacci,"  "Cavalleria 
Rusticana,"  "II  Trovatore,"  "Faust,"  "Lohengrin,"  "Romeo  and 
Juliet,"  "A'ida,"  and  "La  Boheme."  October  15,  1906,  Mr.  Shee 
han  sang  the  role  of  Lieutenant  Pinkerton  in  the  first  produc 
tion  in  English  of  Puccini's  Japanese  opera,  "Madame  Butter 
fly,"  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  Washington,  D.  C.  The  spring 
of  1907  he  appeared  with  the  Van  den  Berg  Opera  Company  at 
the  West  End  Theatre,  New  York,  and  the  following  fall  was  at 
the  head  of  his  own  company  in  St.  Louis  and  other  Western 
cities. 

SHELDON",  Miss  Suzanne  (Mrs.  Henry  Ainley) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Vermont  January  24,  1875.  She  studied 
music  in  Frankfort,  Germany,  but,  choosing  a  dramatic  career, 
made  her  first  appearance  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  London,  with 
Sir  Henry  Irving  May  4,  1897,  in  "The  Medicine  Man."  She 
also  played  in  "Mme.  Sans  Gene."  After  several  successful  en 
gagements  Miss  Sheldon  was  first  seen  in  this  country  October 
14,  1901,  as  Huguette  in  "If  I  Were  King"  with  E.  H.  Sothern 
at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York.  She  afterward  played  the 
same  part  in  London.  She  returned  to  her  native  land  in  1903, 
appearing  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York,  November  23, 
as  Ruth  Langdon  in  "Captain  Barrington."  She  has  since  been 
seen  chiefly  in  London.  The  spring  of  1907  she  played  Joe  in 
"The  Good  Hope"  with  Miss  Ellen  Terry  in  this  country.  Mis» 
Sheldon's  home  is  at  1  Grove  End  road,  London,  N.  W. 


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SHEPHERD,  Leonard: 

Actor,  was  born  in  London,  England,  in  1872,  and  before  go 
ing  on  the  stage  was  employed  in  the  Army  Inspection  Depart 
ment,  in  connection  with  the  English  Government  small  arms 
factories.  He  made  his  debut  in  1894,  playing  small  parts  in  the 
acted  plays  of  Shakespeare  and  in  the  old  comedies.  Early  in 
1897  he  appeared  in  a  round  of  old  men's  parts,  and  in  the  fall 
of  that  year  was  seen  at  the  Adelphi  Theatre,  London,  with 
the  late  William  Terriss  in  "In  the  Days  of  the  Duke."  He 
then  went  to  South  Africa  to  play  in  "The  Sign  of  the 
Cross"  with  W.  J.  Holloway,  an  Australian  actor.  In  1898  he 
returned  to  England  and  joined  the  late  Osmond  Tearle  as  lead 
ing  man  the  year  following.  The  season  of  1901-2  he  went  on 
his  first  starring  tour,  appearing  as  Shylock,  Richard  III,  lago, 
Cassius  and  Virginius.  The  following  season  he  added  to  his 
repertoire  "Hamlet,"  "Othello,"  "Macbeth,"  "David  Garrick" 
and  "Young  Marlowe."  In  1905  he  came  to  this  country  and 
toured  California  and  the  West  with  Ben  Greet.  Later  he  was 
seen  with  Bertha  Kalich  as  Trivulzio  in  "Monna  Vanna"  at 
the  Manhattan  Theatre,  New  York,  and  as  Grivet  in  Harrison 
Grey  Fiske's  dramatization  of  Emil  Zola's  "Therese  Raquin.'' 
The  season  of  1907-8  he  played  the  role  of  Sir  Graham  Craft  in 
"O'Neill  of  Derry"  with  Chauncey  Olcott,  produced  at  the  Lib 
erty  Theatre,  New  York,  November  25,  1907.  Mr.  Shepherd  mar 
ried  Miss  Helena  Head,  an  actress,  in  Natal  in  1897. 

SHERWOOD,  Miss  Josephine: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Boston  and  was  graduated  from  Rad- 
cliffe  College,  bhe  made  her  first  stage  appearance  with  the 
Castle  Square  Stock  Company,  then  played  Helma  in  "What 
Happened  to  Jones,"  and  Rose  Walton  in  "Why  Smith  Left 
Home,"  under  the  management  of  Broadhurst  and  Curry.  After 
a  season  playing  ingenue  roles  in  stock  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House,  New  Orleans,  Miss  Sherwood  supported  Nat  Goodwin  in 
"Wolfville."  Her  most  important  engagement  was  with  Wilton 
Lackaye  the  season  of  1906-7  when  she  played  Fantine  and  Co- 
sette  in  the  adaptation  of  "Les  Miserables,"  called  "Law  and 
the  Man." 

SHIPMAN,  Louis  Evan: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  was  educated 
at  the  public  schools  there,  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Insti 
tute,  and  at  Harvard.  For  some  time  he  was  associated  with 
Harper's  Weekly  in  an  editorial  capacity.  His  first  play  was 
"D'Arcy  of  the  Guards,"  produced  by  Henry  Miller  in  1901.  The 


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following  year  his  dramatization  of  Winston  Churchill's  novel, 
"The  Crisis,"  was  produced  by  James  K.  Hackett.  His  "John 
Ermine  of  the  Yellowstone"  was  produced  at  the  Manhattan 
Theatre,  New  York,  in  1903,  and  his  dramatization  of  Churchill's 
"The  Crossing"  the  following  year.  "On  Parole,"  a  war  play 
from  his  pen,  was  produced  in  1906  and  ran  through  the  season 
with  Miss  Charlotte  Walker  in  the  leading  part. 

SHOTWELL,  Miss  Marie: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  and  was  educated  at 
the  Convent  of  Mount  St.  Vincent,  on  the  Hudson,  N.  Y.  She 
made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  at  the  conclusion  of  her 
studies,  joining  James  O'Neill's  company  as  leading  woman, 
playing  Mercedes  in  "Monte  Cristo,"  Virginia  in  "Virginius," 
Julie  in  "Richelieu,"  etc.  Later  she  appeared  as  Queen  Caro 
line  in  "Mme.  Sans  Gene"  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York, 
making  a  marked  success.  Subsequently  she  was  seen  in  "The 
Prisoner  of  Zenda"  with  B.  H.  Sothern,  and  as  Lady  Sack  in 
Mrs.  Hodgson  Burnett's  "The  First  Gentleman  of  Europe"  with 
the  Lyceum  Stock  Company,  New  York.  Her  mother  died  at 
this  time,  and  she  retired  temporarily  from  the  stage.  The  year 
following  she  married  and  went  abroad  for  five  years.  In  1906 
she  was  seen  in  Charles  Klein's  "The  Daughters  of  Men,"  and 
at  the  close  of  the  season  joined  the  Frawley  Stock  Company, 
San  Francisco.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  appeared  as  Shirley 
Rossmore  in  a  road  company  of  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse." 

SHUBERT,  Lee: 

Manager,  was  born  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  While  he  was  corre 
spondent  for  a  New  York  dramatic  paper  he  and  his  brother, 
the  late  Sam  S.  Shubert,  who  was  killed  in  1905  in  a  railroad 
accident,  took  out  two  small  comedy  companies  on  tour,  and 
later  leased  the  Bastable  Theatre,  Syracuse,  where  they  installed 
a  stock  company.  In  April,  1900,  he  became  manager  of  the 
Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  and  later  the  Princess, 
Casino,  Lincoln  Square,  Majestic,  Hippodrome  and  numerous 
other  New  York  theatres,  besides  playhouses  in  nearly  every  city 
of  the  United  States,  fell  under  his  management.  His  New 
York  City  address  is  1416  Broadway. 

SIDNEY,  Fred.  W.: 

Actor,  playwright  and  stage  manager,  was  born  in  England, 
being  the  son  of  the  late  William  Sidney,  for  many  years  stage 
manager  of  the  Adelphi  Theatre,  London.  After  wide  experi 
ence  as  actor  and  stage  manager  in  England  Mr.  Sidney  came 


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to  this  country  in  1887.  He  made  his  first  appearance  here 
with  Mrs.  James  Brown  Potter  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,. 
New  York.  This  was  followed  by  an  engagement  at  the  Boston 
Museum  for  the  run  of  "Harbor  Lights."  Mr.  Sidney  made  his 
first  marked  success  as  a  stage  manager  in  this  country  with 
his  production  of  "The  Scarlet  Letter"  for  Richard  Mansfield 
at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1905-6  Mr.  Sidney 
supported  Grace  George  in  "The  Marriage  of  William  Ashe," 
and  the  season  of  1907-8  was  with  W.  H.  Crane's  company,  play 
ing  in  "Father  and  the  Boys."  Mr.  Sidney  is  the  author  of  "Her 
Evil  Genius,"  a  comedy-drama  produced  by  Maude  Banks;  "Wig. 
and  Gown,"  played  by  the  late  Rosina  Yokes;  "A  Loving  Leg 
acy,"  produced  at  the  Strand  Theatre,  London;  "A  Queen  of 
Hearts,"  a  musical  comedy  played  by  John  Mason  and  Marion, 
Manola,  and  the  farce  comedy,  "The  Brixton  Burglary,"  pro 
duced  at  Terry's  Theatre,  London,  and  afterward  at  the  Herald 
Square  Theatre,  New  York.  Mr.  Sidney  married  Vida  Croly, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  J.  C.  Croly,  the  writer  known  as  "Jennie 
June. " 

SILL,  William  Raymond: 

Manager,  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  September  29,  1869, 
being  the  youngest  child  of  George  Griswold  Sill,  ex-Governor 
of  Connecticut.  He  was  educated  in  Hartford,  and  attended 
Amherst  College  for  a  short  time,  but  left  there  to  become  a 
reporter  on  the  Hartford  Telegram.  Soon  afterward  he  estab 
lished  the  Winsted  Citizen,  the  first  daily  newspaper  in  Litch- 
field  County,  Connecticut.  In  1888  he  went  to  Minneapolis  as 
an  editorial  writer  on  the  Tribune.  Two  years  later  he  became 
managing  and  dramatic  editor  of  the  Daily  News,  St.  Joseph,. 
Mo.  In  1890  he  was  sent  to  Europe  as  the  representative  of 
various  publications,  to  write  his  impressions  of  the  Passion 
Play  at  Oberammergau.  In  1891  he  became  a  reporter  on  the 
New  York  Recorder.  He  then  went  to  Venezuela  as  a  corre 
spondent  for  several  newspapers  during  the  Crespo  revolution, 
and  visited  the  Maroon  Indians,  in  the  Blue  Mountains  of  Ja 
maica,  writing  many  magazine  articles  regarding  them.  In  1895- 
the  New  York  Journal  commissioned  Mr.  Sill  to  go  to  Cuba 
and  write  several  articles  regarding  the  operations  of  the  in 
surgent  armies  under  Gomez  and  Antonio  Maceo.  An  interview 
with  the  then  Captain-General,  Martinez  y  Campos,  published  in 
the  Journal,  made  it  advisable  for  Mr.  Sill  to  return  post-haste 
to  this  country,  which  he  did  in  a  tug  by  way  of  Pensacola. 
When  the  Spanish-American  War  became  a  certainty  Mr.  Sill 
was  sent  to  the  island  of  St.  Thomas,  Danish  West  Indies,  with. 


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the  Journal's  yacht  Anita,  and  was  practically  held  prisoner  for 
several  weeks  by  the  Spanish  gunboats.  Later  Mr.  Sill  cabled  to 
his  paper  the  first  account  of  Admiral  Sampson's  bombardment 
of  San  Juan,  Porto  Rico.  The  next  month  he  witnessed  the 
destruction  of  Cervera's  fleet.  Mr.  Sill  was  dramatic  editor  and 
critic  of  the  New  York  Evening  World  for  several  years,  until 
he  became  personal  representative  for  Stuart  Robson.  Upon  Mr. 
Robson's  death  he  was  the  representative  of  Marie  Cahill  on 
her  first  starring  venture.  Then  he  entered  the  employ  of  Weber 
&  Fields  as  their  representative  at  the  Globe  Theatre  in  Boston, 
and  also  was  manager  of  the  tour  of  Charles  Richman  in  "Cap 
tain  Harrington,"  and  of  the  musical  comedy  "An  English 
Daisy,"  both  enterprises  financed  by  Weber  &  Fields.  When 
Weber  &  Fields  undertook  their  transcontinental  tour  Mr.  Sill 
was  their  general  representative,  and  when  Joseph  Weber  and 
Lew  Fields  dissolved  partnership  Mr.  Sill  became  manager  for 
Mr.  Fields  and  remained  with  him  for  two  years  until,  in  1906, 
he  became  associated  with  Alfred  E.  Aarons  in  his  various  en 
terprises.  Since  then  he  has  been  business  representative  of 
many  theatrical  organizations.  Mr.  Sill  married  Frances  Han- 
Ion,  daughter  of  Edward  Hanlon,  of  the  Hanlon  Brothers,  and 
has  one  child,  Frances  Rosemary,  born  September  13,  1905. 

SIMMS,  Willard: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Chicago  and  got  his  first  stage  experi 
ence  in  small  companies  traveling  through  the  West.  He  then 
filled  engagements  with  Ethel  Tucker  and  Corinne,  with  whom 
he  was  leading  comedian  for  two  years.  He  made  his  first  New 
York  appearance  at  the  Casino  Theatre  in  "The  Merry  World," 
and  afterward  played  Lord  Algy  in  "An  American  Beauty"  with 
Miss  Lillian  Russell.  When  Miss  Edna  May  produced  this  mu 
sical  comedy  in  London  Mr.  Simms  went  over  to  play  his  origi 
nal  part.  Returning  to  this  country  in  1900,  he  appeared  for 
two  seasons  in  vaudeville  in  a  musical  sketch  called  "Flinder's 
Furnished  Flat."  He  then  starred  for  two  years  on  tour  in 
"Pickings  from  Puck"  and  afterward  became  leading  comedian 
with  the  Tivoli  Stock  Company  in  San  Francisco.  The  season 
of  1905-6  he  was  seen  in  "The  Rollicking  Girl"  with  Sam  Ber 
nard.  Then  he  again  went  into  vaudeville. 

SIMS,  George  Robert: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  England  September  2,  1847,  and 
was  educated  at  Eastbourne  and  at  Bonn,  Germany.  He  first 
attracted  attention  as  a  writer  on  the  London  Referee,  wherein 
his  famous  "Dagonet  Ballads"  were  published.  His  first  im- 


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portant  play  was  "The  Lights  o'  London,"  produced  at  the  Prin 
cess  Theatre,  London,  in  1881;  this  was  followed  by  "Romany 
Rye,"  "In  the  Ranks,"  "Harbor  Lights"  and  many  melodramas 
well-known  in  this  country.  He  is  also  the  author  of  "The  Gay 
City,"  "The  Merry  Duchess,"  "Little  Christopher  Columbus," 
"The  Guardsman,"  "The  English  Rose,"  "Two  Little  Vagrants." 
and  "The  Dandy  Fifth,"  all  of  which  have  been  played  in  the 
United  States.  Mr.  Sims  was  knighted  in  the  Order  of  St. 
Olaf  by  the  late  King  of  Sweden,  in  recognition  of  his  news 
paper  defence  of  a  Swede  unjustly  on  trial  in  London.  He  is 
the  editor  of  a  publication  called  Living  London.  His  home  is 
in  Clarence  terrace,  Regent's  Park,  London. 

SITGREAVES,  Miss  Beverly: 

Actress;  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  with  Agnes 
Herndon  at  the  Union  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1888  in  "The 
Commercial  Traveler's  Bride."  The  following  year  she  joined  the 
Rosina  Vokes  Company,  playing  leading  juvenile  parts.  Since 
then  she  has  supported  such  stars  as  Richard  Mansfield,  Mrs. 
Bernhard-Beere  and  Sadie  Martinet.  Among  her  greatest  suc 
cesses  have  been  the  Baroness  in  "A  Parisian  Romance,"  the 
Housekeeper  in  "Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde,"  and  the  Heroine  in 
"Work  and  Wages."  She  was  also  in  "The  Resurrection"  with 
Blanche  Walsh.  Miss  Sitgreaves  was  last  seen  in  Henry  W.  Sav 
age's  production  of  "The  Stolen  Story,"  which  played  a  brief 
season  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York,  in  the  fall  of  1906. 
She  appeared  in  "The  Sinner"  with  Robert  Edeson  in  December, 
1907. 

SKINNER,  Otis: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  June  28,  1865,  his 
father  being  the  Rev.  Charles  A.  Skinner,  a  Universalist  minis 
ter.  He  was  educated  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  afterward  was  a 
clerk  in  an  office  there.  As  an  amateur  he  organized  a  dramatic 
and  musical  club  and,  deciding  to  adopt  the  stage  as  a  means 
of  livelihood,  he  made  his  first  appearance  at  Wood's  Museum 
in  Philadelphia  October  30,  1877.  He  played  the  part  of  Old 
Plantation,  a  negro,  in  a  play  called  "Woodleigh,"  his  salary 
being  eight  dollars  a  week.  The  following  summer  he  was  in 
the  stock  company  at  the  Walnut  Street  Theatre,  Philadelphia, 
where  he  supported  John  McCullough,  Lawrence  Barrett,  John 
T.  Raymond,  Madame  Janauschek  and  Mary  Anderson.  Mr. 
Skinner  made  his  first  appearance  in  New  York  in  1879  at  Nib- 
lo's  in  "Enchantment."  Then  followed  a  short  season  with  Ed 
win  Booth  at  Booth's  Theatre,  during  which  he  made  his  first 


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hit  as  Frangois  in  "Richelieu."  The  season  of  1880-1  Mr.  Skin 
ner  was  at  the  Boston  Theatre,  after  which  he  became  leading 
man  for  Lawrence  Barrett  for  three  seasons.  In  November, 
1884  he  made  his  first  appearance  as  a  member  of  Augustin 
Daly's  company  in  New  York  in  "The  Wooden  Spoon."  He  re 
mained  with  the  Daly  company  five  years.  After  producing  a 
play  written  by  himself  and  his  brother  Charles,  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House  in  Chicago  in  the  fall  of  1889,  Mr.  Skinner  became 
leading  man  for  Edwin  Booth  and  Madame  Modjeska,  who  were 
then  joint  stars.  Mr.  Skinner  then  went  to  London,  and  ap 
peared  as  Romeo  at  the  Globe  Theatre.  Returning  to  this  coun 
try,  he  supported  Helen  Mather  and,  in  1892-3,  was  again  with 
Modjeska.  Mr.  Skinner  first  became  a  star  in  1894.  He  opened 
his  season  in  Chicago  in  "His  Grace  de  Grammont."  He  also 
played  two  plays  by  his  brother— "The  King's  Jester"  and  "Vil 
lon,  the  Vagabond."  The  fall  of  1895  he  was  first  seen  as  Ham 
let  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  Chicago;  then,  after  a  season 
with  Joseph  Jefferson,  Mr.  Skinner  starred  in  "Rosemary."  Mr. 
Skinner  appeared  at  Atlantic  City  October  19,  1903,  with  Ada 
Rehan  as  Petruchio  in  "The  Taming  of  the  Shrew."  He  also 
acted  Shylock  to  her  Portia  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New  York,  in 
February,  1904.  In  October  of  that  year  he  appeared  in  the 
title  role  of  "The  Harvester,"  and  the  season  of  1906-7  was  seen 
as  Abbe  Daniel  in  "The  Duel,"  which  opened  at  the  Hudson 
Theatre  February  12.  The  season  of.  1907-8  he  toured  in  "The 
Honor  of  the  Family."  In  April,  1895,  Mr.  Skinner  married 
Maud  Durban,  an  actress. 

SKIPWORTH,    Miss   Alison    (Mrs.    Frank   Markham   Skip- 
worth)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  North  Audley  street,  London,  England, 
in  1871,  and  was  educated  in  that  city.  In  1890  she  was  mar 
ried  to  Frank  Markham  Skipworth,  a  well-known  artist  and,  to 
use  her  own  words,  she  "was  driven  on  the  stage  by  poverty 
and  remained  for  love  of  it."  She  made  her  first  appearance, 
in  1894,  at  Daly's  Theatre,  London,  as  Haidee  Walton  in  "The 
Gaiety  Girl"  under  the  management  of  George  Edwardes.  She 
first  came  to  this  country  in  the  same  play  under  the  manage 
ment  of  Charles  Frohman.  After  a  season  in  pantomime  in 
Manchester,  England,  she  returned  to  New  York  as  a  member 
of  the  Lyceum  Stock  Company  under  Daniel  Frohman.  She 
then  played  Favorita  in  "The  Circus  Girl"  in  London,  and  the 
two  following  seasons  was  in  Daniel  Frohman's  stock  company 
at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York.  Following  engagements  were  as 


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Mrs.  Neville  in  "The  Way  of  the  World,"  in  "Frisky  Mrs.  John 
son"  with  Amelia  Bingham,  as  Madame  Levier  in  "Captain 
Dieppe"  with  John  Drew,  in  "Man  Proposes"  with  Henry  Miller, 
as  the  Queen  in  "Cymbeline,"  Olivia  in  "Twelfth  Night,"  and 
Audrey  with  Viola  Allen.  Miss  Skipworth's  favorite  pastime  is 
farming.  She  has  a  summer  place  at  "Sevenacres,"  Smith  town 
Branch,  Long  Island,  N.  Y. 

SLEATH,  Herbert  (Herbert  Sleath  Skelton) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  1870  and  educated  at  Eton.  After  leav 
ing  school  he  was  coached  for  the  army,  but  the  charm  of 
travel  seized  him  and,  being  wealthy,  he  went  to  Texas  and 
Central  America  and  spent  some  time  in  mining  and  ranching. 
He  returned  to  England  and  went  on  the  stage,  among  his  first 
parts  being  D'Alroy  in  "Caste,"  Clement  Hale  in  "Sweet  Laven 
der,"  and  Cattermole  in  "The  Private  Secretary."  In  a  short 
time  he  engaged  in  management,  and  produced  and  played  for 
two  years  "What  Happened  to  Jones"  at  the  Strand  Theatre. 
He  also  shared  in  the  management  of  the  Adelphi,  Olympic, 
Terry's,  Avenue,  Prince  of  Wales's  and  Vaudeville  theatres,  and 
appeared  at  the  Haymarket  in  "The  Second  in  Command,"  and 
in  "The  Only  Way"  at  the  Lyceum  in  1900.  In  1904  he  came  to 
the  United  States  with  his  wife,  and  in  1906  appeared  in  "The 
Dear  Unfair  Sex,"  after  which  he  was  seen  in  "She  Stoops  to 
Conquer"  with  W.  H.  Crane,  and  in  Leo  Ditrichstein's  "The 
Ambitious  Mrs.  Alcott,"  produced  at  the  Astor  Theatre,  New 
York,  April  1,  1907.  Mr.  Sleath  then  returned  to  England  where 
he  has  since  acted.  He  devotes  his  leisure  to  horseracing,  and 
has  carried  off  honors  as  an  amateur  steeplechase  rider. 

SLOANE,  Alfred  Baldwin : 

Composer,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  1872.  There  he 
formed  the  Paint  and  Powder  Club,  and  the  members  produced 
an  opera  composed  by  him.  This  attracted  attention,  and  he 
was  engaged  to  write  "Excelsior,  Jr."  for  Edward  E.  Rice,  which 
brought  him  into  prominence.  He  next  wrote  "Jack  and  the 
Beanstalk"  for  Klaw  &  Erlanger.  He  also  wrote  much  of  the 
music  for  the  plays  of  the  late  Charles  Hoyt.  Other  operas  and 
musical  comedies  composed  by  Mr.  Sloane  are  "The  Mocking 
Bird,"  in  which  Mabelle  Gilman  starred;  "Coming  Through  the 
Rye,"  "Broadway  to  Tokio,"  "Sergeant  Kitty"  for  Virginia  Earle, 
"Lady  Teazle"  for  Lillian  Russell,  and  "The  Gingerbread  Man." 
Mr.  Sloane  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs  and  the  Baton  Club.  His 
home  is  at  202  West  Seventy-ninth  street,  New  York. 


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SMITH,  C.  Aubrey: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England  July  21,  1862,  and  was  educated 
at  Charterhouse  School,  London,  and  at  Cambridge,  where  he 
was  famous  as  a  cricketer  and  also  manager  of  the  Amateur 
Dramatic  Club.  He  was  captain  of  English  cricket  teams  which 
visited  Australia  and  South  Africa.  He  made  his  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  as  a  member  of  the  company  of  Sir  John  Hare, 
coming  to  America  with  that  actor  in  1902.  Returning  to  Eng 
land,  he  acted  with  George  Alexander  at  the  St.  James's  Thea 
tre,  and  then  became  leading  man  with  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell. 
He  was  seen  in  "The  Light  That  Failed"  in  1903,  in  a  revival  of 
"Lady  Windermere's  Fan"  in  1904,  and  he  played  the  Duke  in 
"Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire"  in  1905.  The  same  year  he  was  seen  ill 
"The  Walls  of  Jericho,"  and  in  1906  created  the  part  of  Sir 
Marcus  Ordeyne  in  "The  Morals  of  Marcus"  at  the  Garrick  Thea 
tre,  London.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  played  his  original  part 
in  that  play  in  this  country,  supporting  Miss  Marie  Doro,  and 
opening  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New  York,  November  18,  1907. 
Mr.  Smith  is  a  musician  and  a  clever  painter.  His  home  is  at 
Old  Orchard,  West  Drayton,  near  London,  England. 

SMITH,  Edgar: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Brooklyn  December  9,  1857.  He 
made  his  debut  as  an  actor  at  Booth's  Theatre,  New  York,  in 
"Julius  Caesar"  at  the  benefit  for  Frederick  Warde.  He  played 
several  engagements  during  the  season  of  1878-9,  and  went  to 
Daly's  Theatre  for  the  season  of  1879-80.  He  spent  several  suc 
ceeding  years  in  St.  Louis,  and  wrote  there,  in  conjunction  with 
Augustus  Thomas,  "Editha's  Burglar"  and  "Combustion,"  play 
ing  in  them  during  the  season  of  1884-85  with  an  organization 
known  as  the  Dickson  Sketch  Club.  In  1885-6  he  was  connected 
with  the  Patti  Rosa  company,  and  wrote  for  her  a  comedy- 
drama,  "Love  and  Duty."  He  wrote  and  produced  in  Chicago 
during  the  summer  of  1886  "Little  Lohengrin."  a  travesty,  and 
in  September,  1886,  went  to  the  New  York  Casino  as  librettist. 
He  continued  in  that  capacity,  occasionally  appearing  as  an  actor 
in  the  productions  at  that  theatre,  until  1892-3.  During  that 
period  he  made  adaptations  of  various  foreign  operas,  among 
them  "Nadjy,"  "Apollo,"  "The  Brazilian,"  "The  Grand  Duchess," 
"Poor  Jonathan,"  "The  Brigands,"  "Madelon,"  and  "The  Mar 
quis"  for  the  Casino,  and  wrote  "You  and  I,"  in  conjunction 
with  Richard  F.  Carroll,  and  "Spider  and  Fly"  and  various 
short  travesties  for  M.  B.  Leavitt.  Mr.  Smith  was  with  James 
T.  Powers  in  "Walker,  London,"  and  Thomas  Q.  Seabrooke  in 
"Tabasco"  in  the  season  of  1892-3.  Subsequent  to  that  and  prior 


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to  1896  he  wrote  and  produced  "The  Grand  Vizier,"  "Miss  Phil 
adelphia,"  and  "The  Merry  World,"  and  adapted  for  America 
"The  Girl  from  Paris,"  "The  French  Maid,"  "Monte  Carlo,"  and 
"Hotel  Topsy  Turvy."  In  1896  he  became  stock  author  for  We 
ber's  Music  Hall,  New  York,  for  which  he  has  written  dozens  of 
entertainments  and  travesties,  his  latest  being  "Hip!  Hip! 
Hooray! "  produced  October  7,  1907,  and  burlesques  of  "The 
Thief,"  and  "The  Merry  Widow."  Mr.  Smith  has  also  written 
and  produced  "Home,  Sweet  Home,"  a  rural  drama;  "The  Little 
Host,"  a  musical  comedy,  and  "Sweet  Anne  Page,"  an  opera,  the 
two  latter  in  conjunction  with  the  late  Louis  De  Lange.  His 
home  is  at  Elmhurst,  Long  Island.  He  is  a  member  of  The 
Lambs,  the  Elks  and  the  Mystic  Shrine. 

SMITH,  Harry  B. : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  December  28,  1860, 
and  became  a  newspaper  writer  in  his  early  years  for  the  Chi 
cago  News-Letter,  after  which  he  became  the  dramatic  and  mu 
sical  editor  of  the  Chicago  Daily  Neivs.  His  first  literary  work 
for  the  stage  was  the  libretto  for  "Rosito,"  produced  by  the  Fay 
Templeton  company.  His  next  libretto  was  that  of  "The  Be 
gum,"  which  was  presented  by  the  McCaull  Opera  Company  a 
hundred  and  fifty  nights.  After  that  he  wrote  the  librettos  of 
"Boccaccio,"  "Clever,"  "The  Crystal  Slipper,"  and  "Don  Quix 
ote,"  and  then,  in  connection  with  Reginald  De  Koven,  who 
wrote  the  music,  he  produced  "Robin  Hood,"  the  most  success 
ful  comic  opera  written  in  the  United  States.  Since  then  he  has 
written  more  than  a  hundred  successful  comic  operas  and  musi 
cal  comedies.  Mr.  Smith  married  Miss  Irene  Bentley,  actress,, 
in  1906. 

SOTHERN,  Edward  Hugh: 

Actor,  was  born  at  79  Bienville  street,  New  Orleans,  La^ 
December  6,  1859.  He  was  the  second  son  of  E.  A.  Sothern,  the- 
famous  English  actor.  When  he  was  five  years  old  he  was 
taken  to  England  and  there  educated  with  a  view  to  his  becom 
ing  a  painter,  his  father  being  opposed  to  a  stage  career  for 
his  son.  The  buskin  was  in  the  blood,  however,  and  in  Septem 
ber,  1879,  E.  H.  Sothern  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  boards 
at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York,  playing  the  part  of  the 
Cabman  in  "Sam,"  and  utterly  collapsing  with  fright  when  he 
met  his  father  on  the  stage.  He  next  appeared  at  the  Boston 
Museum  in  small  parts,  and  then  played  low  comedy  parts  in 
John  McCullough's  company.  After  his  father's  death,  in  1881, 
Mr.  Sothern  went  to  England,  where  for  a  while  he  toured  the 


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provinces  with  his  elder  brother,  Lytton  Sothern.  Returning  to 
this  country  in  1883,  Mr.  Sothern  went  through  a  period  of 
poverty,  little  relieved  by  the  production  of  a  farce  written  by 
him,  which  was  first  called  "Whose  Are  They?"  and  played  in 
Baltimore  and  for  two  weeks  at  the  Star  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  then,  under  the  title  of  "Domestic  Earthquakes,"  by  Harri 
son  and  Courley  in  Boston.  Mr.  Sothern  was  next  seen  in  "Nita's 
First"  under  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman,  after  which 
he  supported  Estelle  Clayton  in  "Favette."  From  1884  to  1886 
he  supported  Helen  Dauvray,  playing  leading  parts  in  "A  Scrap 
of  Paper,"  "Mona,"  "Met  by  Chance,"  "Peg  Woffington,"  "The 
Love  Chase,"  and  "One  of  Our  Girls."  His  first  engagement 
with  Daniel  Frohman  was  to  play  Jack  Hammerton  in  "The 
Highest  Bidder,"  a  light  comedy,  by  the  veteran  English  farce 
writers  John  Maddison  Morton  and  Robert  Reece,  which  had 
been  found  among  the  effects  of  Mr.  Sothern's  father.  This  was 
produced  in  the  spring  of  1887,  and  the  same  year  Mr.  Sothern 
starred  in  it,  also  producing  "Editha's  Burglar,"  which  made  a 
pronounced  success.  In  the  season  of  1888  "Lord  Chumley," 
written  for  Mr.  Sothern  by  De  Mille  and  Belasco,  was  produced 
at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York,  and  for  many  years  Mr. 
Sothern  was  the  star  of  the  stock  company  maintained  there  by 
Daniel  Frohman.  The  chief  productions  were  "Captain  Lettar- 
blair,"  "The  Maister  of  Woodbarrow,"  "The  Dancing  Girl,"  "The 
Victoria  Cross,"  "The  Way  to  Win  a  Woman,"  "Sheridan;  or, 
The  Maid  of  Bath,"  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda,"  "An  Enemy  to 
the  King,"  "Change  Alley,"  "The  Lady  of  Lyons,"  "The  Adven 
ture  of  Lady  Ursula,"  "A  Colonial  Girl,"  "The  King's  Mus 
keteer,"  and  "The  Song  of  the  Sword."  Mr.  Sothern  made  a 
pronounced  success  in  "The  Sunken  Bell,"  an  adaptation  of 
Hauptmann's  German  play,  produced  at  the  Hollis  Street 
Theatre,  Boston,  Mass.,  December  22,  1899,  and  on  Sep 
tember  17,  1900,  he  made  his  first  appearance  in  New  York  as 
Hamlet.  He  subsequently  appeared  as  Frangois  Villon  in  "If  I 
Were  King,"  as  Robert,  King  of  Sicily,  in  "The  Proud  Prince" 
with  Cecilia  Loftus  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  in  1904  co-starred  with  Julia  Marlowe  in  "Romeo  and 
Juliet."  For  two  seasons  he  toured  in  Shakespearian  reper 
toire,  and  on  October  15,  1906,  appeared  as  the  Duke  D'Alencon 
in  "Jean  D'Arc."  Later  he  was  seen  in  "The  Sunken  Bell,"  and 
"John  the  Baptist"  with  Miss  Marlowe.  In  1907  he  went  to 
London,  appearing  there  in  repertoire,  and  the  season  of  1907-8 
was  seen  in  this  country  in  Lawrence  Irving's  play,  "The  Fool 
Hath  Said  There  Is  No  God,"  and  in  "Lord  Dundreary."  Mr. 
Sothern  is  the  author  of  the  plays  "I  Love,  Thou  Lovest,  He 


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Loves"  and  "The  Light  That  Lies  in  Woman's  Eyes."  Mr.  So- 
thern  married  Virginia  Harned  in  Philadelphia  December  3,  1896. 
His  New  York  address  is  37  West  Sixty-ninth  street. 

SOTJSA,  John  Philip : 

Bandmaster,    composer   and   author,   was  born   in   Washing 
ton,   D.   C.,   November   6,   1854,   his   parents  being  Antonio   and 
Elizabeth  Sousa.     His  mother  is  still  living  in  Washington  at 
the  age  of  eighty-two  years.     At  eleven  young  Sousa  appeared 
in  public  as  violin  soloist  and  at  fifteen  he  was  teaching  har 
mony.     In  1876  he  was  one  of  the  first  violins  in  the  orchestra 
conducted  by  Offenbach  when  the  latter  visited  America.     Later 
he    conducted    for    various    theatrical    and    operatic     companies, 
among  them   the   "Church   Choir   Pinafore"   company.      In   1880 
he  was  appointed  leader  of  the  band  of  the  United  States  Ma 
rine  Corps,  the  national  band,  and  served  in  that  capacity  un 
der  Presidents  Hayes,  Garfield,  Arthur,  Cleveland  and  Harrison 
until  August  1,  1892,  when  he  resigned,  to  organize  the  Sousa 
band  which,   up  to  July  1,   1907,  had  made   thirty   semi-annual 
tours  through  the  United  States  and  visited  Europe  four  times, 
giving  a  total  of  7,334  concerts  in  892  cities  and  covering  296,275 
miles  of  travel.     As  a  composer  Mr.  Sousa  originated  a  march 
style  that  is  recognized  the  world  over,  his  best  known  and  most 
popular    productions    in    this    field    including    "The    Washington 
Post,"    "Liberty   Bell,"    "Manhattan    Beach,"    "High    School    Ca 
dets,"  "The  Stars  and  Stripes  Forever,"  "The  Invincible  Eagle," 
"Hail  to  the  Spirit  of  Liberty,"  "Hands  Across  the  Sea,"  "The 
Charlatan,"    "The     Bride-elect,"    "El    Capitan,"    "King    Cotton," 
"Imperial    Edward,"    "Jack    Tar,"    "The    Diplomat,"    "Semper 
Fidelis,"   and   "The  Free   Lance"   marches.     He   has   written   a 
number  of  suites,  among  them  "Three  Quotations,"   "The  Last 
Days  of  Pompeii,"  "Looking  Upward,"   "At  the  King's  Court," 
and  "Sheridan's  Ride";  a  symphonic  poem,  "The  Chariot  Race," 
and  many  songs  and  miscellaneous  compositions.     He  wrote  the 
scores  of  the  comic   operas   "The   Smugglers,"   "Desiree,"   "The 
Queen  of  Hearts,"   "El  Capitan,"   "The  Charlatan,"   "Chris  and 
the  Wonderful  Lamp,"  and  "The  Free  Lance,"  and  the  book  and 
lyrics  for   "The   Bride-elect."     He  compiled,  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Government,  "National,  Patriotic  and  Typical  Airs  of  All 
Countries,"  and  has  written  miscellaneous  verses,  magazine  arti 
cles  and  two  novels — "The  Fifth  String"  and  "Pipetown  Sandy." 
He    appeared    with    his   band   before    King   Edward    and    Queen 
Alexandra  at  Sandringham  and  at  Windsor;    the  King,  on   the 
first  occasion,  bestowing  on  him  the  decoration  of  the  Victorian 
Order.     He  received  the  Grand  Diploma  of  Honor  of  the  Acad- 


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emy  of  Hainault,  Belgium,  and  was  decorated  by  the  French 
Government  with  the  Palms  of  the  Academy,  besides  being  made 
an  officer  of  Public  Instruction.  Mr.  Sousa  is  a  member  of  varioua 
Masonic  bodies,  the  Sons  of  Veterans,  the  Gridiron,  Republican, 
Salmagundi,  The  Players,  Dramatists'  and  Baton  clubs;  also  the 
National  Geographic  Society.  He  is  fond  of  outdoor  sports,  be 
ing  an  expert  rider  and  huntsman. 

SPARKS,  Joseph  M. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1856.  His  first  stage 
work  was  as  a  boy  in  song  and  dance  at  a  little  variety  theatre 
in  Hartford,  called  Newton's  Varieties.  He  had  a  partner  and 
they  appeared  as  the  Sparks  Brothers.  In  1872  they  joined  a 
real  traveling  company  and  opened  at  Lynn,  Mass.,  with  Maffit 
and  Bartholomew's  pantomime  company  in  "Flick  and  Flock," 
The  next  season  they  went  into  variety  and  played  in  the  prin 
cipal  variety  houses  almost  continuously  until  1880,  when  they 
joined  Tony  Denier  for  a  season  with  his  "Humpty  Dumpty" 
company.  In  1882  they  signed  with  Harrigan  and  Hart,  and 
Mr.  Sparks  remained  with  Harrigan  for  eight  seasons,  during 
which  term  he  was  sent  on  the  road  as  star  in  "Cordelia's  Aspi 
rations,"  "Dan's  Tribulations,"  and  "Squatter  Sovereignty." 
Then  he  accepted  an  offer  from  Rich  and  Harris  to  join  May 
Irwin's  company,  and  later  toured  with  his  own  company  in  a 
play  called  "Mr.  O'Reilly,"  by  George  Hobart,  and  afterward  was 
with  Klaw  &  Erlanger  in  "A  Little  of  Everything."  The  season 
of  1906  he  was  with  Arnold  Daly,  and  the  fall  season  with 
Henry  W.  Savage's  "The  Stolen  Story"  company.  The  season 
of  1907-8  he  played  Winfield  Scott  Carroll  in  George  Ade's  com 
edy  "Artie."  His  home  is  at  Chester  Hill,  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

SPENCER,  Miss  Lucy  (Mrs.  Charles  Sarver) : 

Actress  and  playwright,  was  born  in  Northampton,  Mass., 
June  7,  1884.  She  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  play 
ing  a  small  part  in  "Mary  of  Magdala"  at  the  Manhattan  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  with  Mrs.  Fiske.  The  following  season  she 
played  the  ingenue  part  in  "The  Cavalier,"  and  the  season  of 
1904-5  she  played  Lady  Jane  in  "Becky  Sharp"  with  Mrs.  Fiske. 
She  also  played  Tilda  in  "The  Rose,"  and  Jean  Ingomarch  in 
"The  Proud  Laird."  She  has  also  played  ingenue  parts  in  sev 
eral  summer  stock  companies  and  has  published  four  songs.  In 
1905  Miss  Spencer  joined  the  staff  of  the  New  York  World,  to 
write  dramatic  reviews  and  interviews.  October  26,  1905,  she 
was  married  to  Charles  Sarver,  then  city  editor  of  the  World. 
She  has  since  written  several  one-act  plays,  including  "His  Japa- 


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nese  Teacher,"  produced  at  the  Carnegie  Lyceum,  and  "Through 
a  Glass  Darkly." 

SPENCER,  Miss  Mabel  (Mrs,  Robert  Dorman) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Brookline,  Mass.  After  graduating 
from  the  Emerson  School  of  Oratory,  Boston,  she  joined  the 
Castle  Square  Theatre  Company,  with  which  she  made  her  first 
public  appearance.  She  was  then  seen  in  a  "Florodora"  com 
pany  and  afterward  played  the  Chicago  Girl  in  "The  Prince  of 
Pilsen,"  going  with  the  company  to  London,  England.  The  fol 
lowing  season  she  was  with  the  "Woodland"  company,  leaving 
that  to  appear  in  "The  Man  from  Now."  She  then  studied 
music  in  New  York.  In  July,  1907,  Miss  Spencer  married  Rob 
ert  Dorman,  of  Philadelphia. 

SPONG,  Miss  Hilda: 

Actress,  was  born  in  London  May  14,  1875,  being  the  daugh 
ter  of  W.  B.  Spong,  a  well-known  scene  painter  and  artist.  When, 
thirteen  years  old  she  was  taken  to  Australia  by  her  parents, 
and  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  at  the  Criterion 
Theatre,  Sydney,  in  "Joseph's  Sweetheart"  in  1890.  Joining  the 
Brough-Boucicault  company,  she  played  a  wide  variety  of  parts 
until  she  rose  to  be  leading  woman  of  the  organization.  Re 
turning  to  England,  Miss  Spong  made  her  first  appearance  in 
London  in  "The  Duchess  of  Coolgardie"  at  the  Drury  Lane 
Theatre  in  1896.  She  also  played  in  "The  Kiss  of  Delilah,"  and 
"The  Two  Little  Vagrants."  She  created  the  part  of  Imogen 
Parrott  in  "Trelawney  of  the  Wells"  at  the  Court  Theatre,  Lon 
don,  in  1898,  and  the  same  year  made  her  first  appearance  in 
this  country  in  the  same  part,  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  under 
the  management  of  Daniel  Frohman.  The  season  of  1898-9  she 
was  seen  in  "Americans  at  Home,"  and  "An  Amateur  Rehear 
sal,"  and  as  Mrs.  Bulmer  in  "Wheels  Within  Wheels."  In  "The 
Ambassador"  Miss  Spong  played  Lady  Beauvedere,  and  at  Daly's 
Theatre  March  20,  1899,  she  was  successful  in  the  leading  part 
in  "The  Interrupted  Honeymoon."  At  the  same  theatre,  and 
still  under  Daniel  Frohman's  management,  Miss  Spong  opened 
the  fall  season  of  1900  in  "The  Man  of  Forty,"  which  was  fol 
lowed  by  "Lady  Huntworth's  Experiment."  Miss  Spong  was 
first  seen  as  a  star  in  New  York,  at  Weber's  Theatre,  in  the  fall 
of  1906,  opening  as  Lady  Jemima  Wilson  in  "Lady  Jim,"  a  com 
edy  by  Harold  Heaton,  which  did  not  prove  a  success.  This  was 
followed  by  "John  Hudson's  Wife,"  by  Alicia  Ramsay  and  Ru 
dolph  de  Cordova,  in  which  she  played  Honor.  The  season  of 
1907-8  she  went  into  vaudeville,  appearing  in  William  C.  De 


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Mille's  one-act  drama,  "Kit."     Her  home  is  at  Amity ville,  Long 
Island. 

STAHL,  Miss  Rose: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Montreal,  Canada,  October  29,  1875,  and 
was  graduated  from  the  Convent  Mont  St.  Marie,  Congregation 
de  Notre  Dame,  Montreal.  Her  father,  Colonel  Ernest  C.  Stahl, 
was  a  well-known  newspaper  man  of  Trenton,  N.  J.,  and  through 
his  influence  she  obtained  an  engagement  with  Charles  Froh- 
man,  making  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  when  she  was 
seventeen  years  old.  She  then  played  in  stock  companies  in 
Philadelphia,  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  Rochester,  N.  Y.  After  star 
ring  for  a  time  as  Janice  Meredith,  she  went  into  vaudeville, 
producing  with  great  success  a  sketch  by  James  Forbes,  called 
"The  Chorus  Lady."  After  playing  this  here  and  in  England, 
the  little  piece  was  elaborated  into  a  four-act  play  which  was 
produced  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York,  September  1,  1906.  It 
had  a  successful  run  at  various  theatres  in  New  York  until  June, 
1907,  when  it  was  taken  to  Chicago  and  repeated  its  success  there 
and  on  tour. 

STANDING,  Guy: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England,  his  father  being  Herbert 
Standing,  the  English  actor,  who  is  well  known  in  America. 
Guy  Standing  first  attracted  attention  in  New  York  in  1892, 
when  he  supported  Mrs.  Bernard  Beere  in  her  American  debut, 
made  on  November  14,  1892,  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre  in  West 
Thirty-fourth  street,  which  afterward  became  Koster  &  Bial's 
Music  Hall.  The  season  of  1893  he  was  a  member  of  Loie  Ful 
ler's  specialty  company.  Charles  Frohman  then  engaged  him, 
and  he  went  on  tour  in  "Sowing  the  Wind."  In  1896  he  sup 
ported  Annie  Russell  in  "Sue,"  and  the  following  season  sup 
ported  Maude  Adams  in  "The  Little  Minister,"  and  was  a  mem 
ber  of  the  Empire  Theatre  Company,  with  which  he  remained 
several  seasons.  In  1904  he  supported  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell, 
and  the  following  season  was  seen  in  "Mrs.  Lefnngwell's  Boots/' 
"Wolf ville,"  and  "Madeline."  He  played  Captain  Murray  in 
"Grierson's  Way"  at  the  Princess  Theatre,  New  York,  January, 
1906,  and  was  afterward  seen  as  Dr.  Morey  in  "The  Duel"  at  the 
Hudson  Theatre.  After  a  stock  engagement  at  Washington,  D.  C., 
he  created  the  part  of  John  Ashby  in  "The  Love  Route"  at  the 
Lincoln  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  October  30,  1906.  The  spring 
of  1907  he  played  Gino  Riccardi  in  "Comtesse  Coquette"  at  the 
Bijou  Theatre,  New  York,  with  Mme.  Alia  Nazimova.  On  No 
vember  4,  1907,  he  was  joint  star  with  Theodore  Roberts  in 


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"The  Right  of  Way"  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York.  Mr. 
Standing's  first  wife  was  the  late  Isabelle  Urquhart,  from  whom 
he  was  divorced.  He  then  married  Miss  Blanche  Burton. 

STANDING,  Herbert : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Peckham,  near  London,  November  13, 
1846.  He  made  his  first  appearance,  under  the  name  of  Her 
bert  Crellin,  at  the  old  Queen's  Theatre,  Long  Acre,  London,  as 
Langford  in  "Still  Waters  Run  Deep,"  the  part  of  Hawkesley 
being  played  by  Charles  Wyndham,  under  whose  management 
Mr.  Standing  in  after  years  made  many  of  his  principal  suc 
cesses.  A  provincial  tour  was  followed  by  a  three  years'  en 
gagement  at  the  Princess's.  Then  he  joined  the  Lyceum  com 
pany  in  1871,  to  create  the  part  of  Christian  in  the  production 
by  Sir  Henry  Irving  of  "The  Bells."  Later  he  became  a  mem 
ber  of  the  Criterion  company,  in  which  he  remained  for  more 
than  ten  years.  Among  his  best  impersonations  were  Sir  Peter 
Wagstaffe  in  "Pink  Dominos,"  John  Penryn  in  "Truth,"  and 
Captain  MacManus  in  "Betsy."  After  this  he  appeared  in  a 
number  of  comedy  roles  at  the  West  End  theatres,  and  in  "A 
Million  of  Money"  at  Drury  Lane  in  1S90.  For  the  last  decade 
he  has  been  closely  associated  with  the  American  stage,  play 
ing  many  important  roles.  September  10,  1906,  he  played  Mi% 
Galland  in  "The  Dear  Unfair  Sex,"  produced  at  the  Liberty 
Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  seen  with 
Arnold  Daly  at  the  Berkeley  Theatre,  New  York,  in  Shaw  pro 
ductions.  Mr.  Standing  is  the  brother  of  W.  T.  Carleton,  the 
well-known  operatic  baritone,  and  the  father  of  Guy  Standing, 
the  actor. 

STANFORD,  Henry: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Ramleh,  Egypt,  in  1872,  where  his  father 
was  advocate  for  the  British  Crown.  He  made  his  first  stage 
appearances  with  small  traveling  companies  in  the  provinces 
of  England,  playing  repertoire.  Later  he  played  juvenile  leads 
in  the  large  towns,  and  such  parts  as  Wilfred  Denver  in  "The 
Silver  King,"  David  Kingsley  in  "Harbor  Lights,"  Romeo, 
George  D'Alroy  in  "Caste,"  and  Lord  Beaufoy  in  "School."  He 
understudied  Sir  Charles  W'yndham  at  the  Criterion  Theatre, 
London,  in  "The  Home  Secretary,"  afterward  playing  Wynd- 
ham's  part  on  tour.  In  1897  he  went  to  South  Africa,  playing 
leading  parts  in  a  repertoire  of  twenty-two  London  successes 
during  a  season  of  twenty-six  weeks  in  Johannesburg.  He  also 
played  in  Durban,  Port  Elizabeth,  Maritzburg  and  Cape  Town. 
Returning  to  London,  Mr.  Stanford  appeared  as  Dudley  Kepple 


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in  "One  of  the  Best"  at  the  Princess's  Theatre,  and  was  then 
engaged  by  Sir  Henry  Irving  to  play  Olivier  in  "Robespierre," 
opening  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New  York,  in  Novem 
ber,  1900.  He  played  Prosper  Le  Gai  in  "The  Forest  Lovers" 
at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York,  with  Bertha  Galland,  and 
in  "Sweet  and  Twenty"  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre.  In 
October,  1902,  Mr.  Stanford  married  Laura  Burt,  the  actress, 
in  New  York.  Mr.  Stanford  was  re-engaged  by  Sir  Henry  Irving 
to  play  the  title  role  in  "Faust"  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  Lon 
don.  He  played  at  Drury  Lane  Theatre,  toured  America  and 
remained  with  Sir  Henry  until  his  death  in  October,  1905.  Mr. 
Stanford  then  returned  to  New  York  to  play  Prinzevalle  in 
"Monna  Vanna"  with  Bertha  Kalich.  The  season  of  1906-7  he 
starred  jointly  with  his  wife  in  "Dorothy  Vernon  of  Haddon 
Hall,"  and  the  season  of  1907-8  they  were  seen  in  "The  Walls 
of  Jericho."  He  is  a  member  of  The  Players,  New  York. 

STANLEY,  Miss  Marion: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  educated  there. 
She  became  well  known  in  amateur  theatricals  as  "Little 
Marion,"  and  made  her  first  professional  appearance  in  "Blue- 
Beard"  under  David  Henderson's  management,  playing  the  role 
of  Jack,  the  Giant  Killer.  At  the  close  of  this  engagement  she 
returned  to  school,  to  conclude  her  studies,  and  later  appeared 
with  the  Boston  Comic  Opera  Company.  For  five  years  she  was 
a  member  of  the  Amaranth  Dramatic  Society,  of  Brooklyn,  as 
leading  woman,  and  then  joined  the  James  R.  Waite  company, 
appearing  in  "Uncle  Terry,"  "The  Minister's  Daughter,"  etc. 
The  next  two  years  she  was  in  vaudeville,  and  subsequently 
appeared  in  "The  English  Daisy,"  "The  Isle  of  Champagne," 
"The  Mocking  Bird,"  "El  Capitan,"  "Erminie,"  "The  Telephone 
Girl,"  and  "The  Girl  from  Paris."  In  1903  she  was  seen  in 
"The  Wizard  of  Oz,"  and  then  joined  the  "Rogers  Brothers  in 
Ireland"  company.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  appeared  as  Rose 
Gay  in  "The  Rogers  Brothers  in  Panama,"  produced  at  the 
Broadway  Theatre,  New  York,  September  2,  1907. 

STARR,  Miss  Frances: 

Actress,  was  born  at  Oneonta,  N.  Y.,  June  6,  1886,  but 
on  the  death  of  her  father,  while  she  was  a  small  child,  re 
moved  with  her  mother  and  two  sisters  to  Albany,  where  her 
mother  still  resides.  She  made  her  first  appearance  with  an 
Albany  stock  company,  conducted  by  Frederic  Bond,  in  June, 
1901,  with  which  she  played  ingenue  roles  for  ten  weeks  dur 
ing  the  summer.  The  following  year  went  to  New  York,  where? 


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she  became  a  member  of  the  Murray  Hill  Stock  Company  un 
der  Henry  V.  Donnelly's  management.  After  one  season  she 
was  engaged  as  ingenue  of  the  company  for  the  next  year.  The 
following  season  Miss  Starr  was  a  member  of  the  Alcazar 
Stock  Company,  in  San  Francisco,  under  the  management  of 
Frederick  Belasco.  Returning  to  the  East,  she  joined  the  Cas 
tle  Square  Theatre  Company  of  Boston  and,  on  the  completion 
of  her  engagement,  became  identified  with  the  Proctor  Fifth 
Avenue  Stock  Company,  and  during  the  season  of  1905-6  ap 
peared  with  Charles  Richman  in  "Gallops."  Mr.  Belasco  mean 
while  had  been  watching  her  work,  and  engaged  her  to  play 
the  heroine  of  "The  Music  Master"  with  David  Warfield.  Then 
Mr.  Belasco  selected  her  to  play  the  leading  role  in  his  new 
play  of  Spanish-Calif ornian  life,  "The  Rose  of  the  Rancho." 
Under  the  personal  training  of  the  playwright-manager  the  de 
velopment  of  her  ability  was  so  rapid  that  Mr.  Belasco  pro 
moted  her  to  stellar  honors,  and  for  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8  she 
continued  to  be  featured  in  "The  Rose  of  the  Rancho." 

STARR,  Miss  Sylvia  (Salmon) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  September  1,  1879, 
a  daughter  of  Alfred  Salmon.  She  made  her  first  appearance 
in  a  small  part  in  "The  Manderin  Zune"  in  Providence,  R.  I., 
in  1897.  Later  she  played  the  principal  juvenile  part  in  "The 
Lobster"  with  Fisher  and  Carroll.  After  two  seasons  in  vaude 
ville  Miss  Starr  made  successes  as  the  Widow  in  Hoyt's  "Trip 
to  Chinatown."  This,  and  Hattie  in  "A  Stranger  in  New  York," 
she  played  the  seasons  of  1903  and  1904.  Later  she  played  the 
leading  woman's  part  in  "A  Son  of  Rest"  with  Nat  Wills,  Lady 
Henry  Fairfax  in  "Diplomacy"  with  Miss  Rose  Coghlan,  and 
second  woman's  parts  with  Byron  Douglas  in  a  stock  company 
in  Toledo,  Ohio.  The  summer  of  1906  she  played  Diana  Hicks 
in  "Mam'zelle  Champagne"  on  the  roof  of  the  Madison  Square 
Garden,  New  York.  Since  then  she  has  been  seen  in  several 
musical  comedies. 

STEGER,  Julius: 

Actor  and  singer,  was  born  in  Vienna,  and  after  singing 
operatic  roles  in  Europe  he  came  to  this  country,  making  his 
first  appearance  in  1893,  in  Philadelphia,  in  Reginald  De  Ko- 
ven's  "The  Algerian,"  supporting  Miss  Marie  Tempest.  The 
following  season  he  was  seen  with  her  in  "The  Fencing  Mas 
ter,"  and  the  season  of  1895-6  he  played  the  title  part  in  "His 
Excellency"  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York.  The  follow 
ing  summer  he  appeared  in  "In  Gay  New  York"  at  the  Casino, 


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New  York;  then  was  in  "Santa  Maria,"  by  Oscar  Hammer- 
stein,  and  in  "La  Falote"  at  the  Casino,  New  York.  He  played 
in  "The  Geisha"  at  Daly's  Theatre  in  1897;  then  was  seen  in 
"The  Lady  Slavey,"  and  "Yankee  Doodle  Dandy."  Following 
engagements  were  with  "A  Dangerous  Maid,"  "The  Man  in  the 
Moon,  Jr.";  "Foxy  Quiller,"  ajid  "The  Billionaire."  After  a 
season  in  "Nancy  Brown"  with  Miss  Marie  Cahill,  Mr.  Steger 
supported  Lew  Fields  in  "It  Happened  in  Nordland"  for  two 
seasons.  In  1906  he  began  playing  a  one-act  drama,  with  music, 
entitled  "The  Fifth  Commandment,"  in  the  vaudeville  houses, 
and  continued  with  this  specialty  the  season  of  1907-8.  Mr. 
Steger  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs  and  The  Players,  New  York. 

STEWART,  Grant: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England  of  Scotch  ancestry,  and  was 
brought  to  this  continent  when  a  boy,  making  his  home  in  Can 
ada.  The  first  three  seasons  of  his  stage  career  were  spent  as 
a  member  of  the  Rosina  Yokes  Company,  after  which  he  played 
juvenile  parts  in  support  of  Rose  Coghlan.  The  season  of  1895-6 
Mr.  Stewart  played  in  "Lost,  Twenty-four  Hours"  with  Robert 
Hilliard;  in  "The  House  of  Cards"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre, 
New  York,  and  with  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  in  "The  Heart  of  Mary 
land,"  remaining  with  her  two  seasons.  He  then  joined  Daniel 
Frohman's  Lyceum  Theatre  Company,  remaining  with  it  five 
years.  The  season  of  1902-3  Mr.  Stewart  played  Jingle  with 
De  Wolf  Hopper  in  "Mr.  Pickwick,"  and  for  following  seasons 
supported  Ethel  Barrymore  in  "Cousin  Kate,"  and  Annie  Rus 
sell  in  "Brother  Jacques,"  and  "Jennie,  the  Carrier."  In  1903 
he  appeared  in  "In  the  Bishop's  Carriage,"  after  which  he  was 
with  William  Collier  in  "Caught  in  the  Rain,"  of  which  he 
was  part  author.  He  remained  with  Mr.  Collier  the  season  of 
1907-8. 

STEWART,  William  G. : 

Baritone  singer  and  actor,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in 
1870.  His  father,  N.  Coe  Stewart,  in  1898  was  Superintendent  of 
Music  in  the  public  schools  of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  William  G. 
Stewart  made  his  stage  debut  in  the  chorus  of  the  Baker  Opera 
Company.  His  first  important  role  was  that  of  Count  Arnheim 
in  "The  Bohemian  Girl."  He  made  his  mark  in  roles  in  "Ma 
dame  Favart,"  "Puritana,"  and  "Amorita,"  in  Pauline  Hall's 
company,  and  was  also  prominent  in  the  cast  of  Laura  Schirmer- 
Mapleson's  "Favette"  company.  For  three  seasons  he  played 
small  parts  in  Augustin  Daly's  company,  one  season  going  with 
it  to  London.  After  appearing  with  Camille  D'Arville  in  "Made- 


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leine;  or,  The  Magic  Kiss,"  and  "The  Daughter  of  the  Revolu 
tion,"  he  joined  the  Castle  Square  Opera  Company,  becoming  in 
time  its  general  director,  as  well  as  principal  baritone.  Mr. 
Stewart  founded  the  American  School  of  Opera,  which  resulted 
in  the  building  of  the  Lyric  Theatre.  He  was  the  original 
Johnny  in  "When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home,"  and  the 
original  baritone  of  "Foxy  Quiller."  He  produced  "The  Genius," 
starring  Harry  Woodruff  and  Edna  Goodrich.  He  played  with 
the  Stewart  Opera  Company  a  season  of  thirty  weeks,  1906-7; 
wrote  "Fuss  and  Feathers,"  and  "Camp  Cupid,"  and  founded 
the  Stewart  Realty  Company,  1906.  Mr.  Stewart  married  Miss 
Hattye  Fox,  of  St.  Louis,  an  actress  and  a  niece  of  Miss  Delia 
Fox,  January  10,  1907.  His  business  address  is  1402  Broadway, 
New  York. 

STONE,  Miss  Amelia : 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  December  5, 
1879;  was  educated  in  the  Detroit  public  schools.  When  fifteen 
years  old  her  voice  attracted  the  attention  of  Colonel  Lou  Burt, 
at  that  time  Eminent  Commander  of  Detroit  Commandery  No. 
1,  K.  T.,  and  he  induced  her  to  sing  at  several  musical  enter 
tainments.  The  result  of  this  was  that  she  was  engaged  to 
sing  at  the  Masonic  Temple  Roof  Garden.  Here  she  was  heard 
by  W.  H.  MacDonald,  of  the  Bostonians,  and  was  engaged  for 
the  part  of  Annabel  in  "Robin  Hood."  Her  next  engagement 
was  to  play  Little  Billee  in  a  burlesque  of  "Trilby."  While  sing 
ing  this  part  the  late  Charles  H.  Hoyt  engaged  her  for  his  "A 
Trip  to  Chinatown"  company,  and  she  went  to  Australia  with 
the  company.  She  was  afterward  leading  woman  in  Hoyt's  "A 
Stranger  in  New  York"  during  the  New  York  and  London  runs 
of  that  play.  She  made  an  impression  in  London,  and  was  en 
gaged  to  play  Morgiana  in  the  Drury  Lane  pantomime  of  "The 
Forty  Thieves."  Then  she  made  a  vaudeville  tour  of  Europe. 
In  1900  she  returned  to  the  operatic  stage,  playing  the  Viennese 
dancing  girl,  Franzi,  in  "Vienna  Life,"  in  which  she  was  suc 
cessful.  More  recently  she  was  seen  in  "The  Chinese  Honey 
moon,"  and  "Piff,  Paff,  Pouf,"  at  the  Casino  Theatre,  New  York. 
The  spring  and  summer  season  of  1907  she  played  Lady  Violet 
in  "The  Orchid"  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre,  New  York.  The 
regular  season  of  1907-8  she  was  with  Joseph  Weber's  company. 

STUART,  Cosmo  (Cosmo  Stuart  Charles  Gordon-Lennox) : 

Actor  and  playwright,  was  born  October  28,  1868,  being  the 
son  of  Lord  Alexander  Gordon-Lennox.  He  was  educated  for 
the  stage  under  Sarah  Thome,  and  made  his  first  London  ap- 


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pearance  in  1896,  at  the  Vaudeville  Theatre,  in  "A  Night  Out." 
Two  years  later  he  appeared  in  "The  Adventure  of  Lady  Ursula" 
at  the  Duke  of  York's  Theatre,  London,  and  in  1902  in  Henry 
A.  Jones's  "The  Princess's  Nose"  at  that  playhouse.  He  is  the 
author  of  "Becky  Sharp,"  in  collaboration  with  R.  S.  Kitchens, 
in  which  Marie  Tempest  originated  the  title  role  and  which  was 
produced  at  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Theatre,  London,  in  1901; 
"The  Marriage  of  Kitty,"  and  "The  Freedom  of  Suzanne,"  starred 
in  by  Miss  Tempest,  in  1904,  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  London, 
and  in  this  country.  In  1905  he  wrote  "The  Indecision  of  Mr. 
Kingsbury,"  in  which  he  appeared  at  the  Haymarket  Theatre, 
London,  in  December.  Mr.  Stuart  married  Miss  Marie  Tempest, 
the  actress,  in  1898. 

SULLIVAN,  James  Francis: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  in  1880.  He  made  his 
debut  on  the  stage  at  the  age  of  six,  appearing  at  the  Academy 
of  Music  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  giving  imitations  of  Harry  Kernell, 
Pat  Rooney,  and  the  Russell  Brothers.  Several  of  these  stars 
were  on  the  bill  the  same  evening  and  commented  upon  the 
youth's  versatility  as  a  mimic.  For  the  past  fifteen  years  Mr. 
Sullivan  has  devoted  his  time  to  eccentric  Irish  parts,  making 
his  first  Broadway  appearance  about  three  years  ago,  originating 
the  part  of  Bobstay  in  "The  Fisher  Maiden"  at  Hammerstein's. 
He  was  afterward  engaged  by  George  W.  Lederer,  but  sudden  ill 
ness  compelled  him  to  cancel  this  contract.  The  following  sea 
son  he  made  his  first  marked  success  as  the  Polite  German 
Lunatic  in  "The  Belle  of  New  York."  He  then  appeared  as  the 
Frenchman  in  "The  Prince  of  Pilsen,"  and  last  season  was  seen 
as  the  Tramp  in  the  Hurtig  &  Seamon  musical  production,  "Me, 
Him  and  I,"  and  later  in  a  vaudeville  sketch. 

SULLY,  Daniel  (Sullivan) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Newport,  R.  I.,  November  6,  1855.  As  a 
boy  he  became  such  an  expert  turner  of  handsprings  that  he 
obtained  an  engagement  with  Lentz's  circus  as  a  tumbler.  He 
forsook  the  sawdust  ring  for  the  song  and  dance  act,  and  toured 
the  variety  theatres  until  1883,  toward  the  latter  end  of  this 
time  writing  sketches  which  met  with  favor.  In  1884  he  con 
structed  a  farce  out  of  the  "Peck's  Bad  Boy"  stories;  but,  owing 
to  a  disagreement  with  Mr.  Peck,  he  was  compelled  to  abandon 
it.  He  then  rewrote  an  old  English  comedy  called  "The  Chim 
ney  Corner,"  calling  it  "The  Corner  Grocery,"  and  in  this  he 
starred  for  the  next  five  years,  making  of  it  a  most  successful 
venture.  The  comedy  "Daddy  Nolan,"  a  sequel  to  "The  Corner 


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Grocery,"  was  his  next  production,  in  1885,  and  this  was  fol 
lowed  by  "O'Brien,  the  Contractor."  This  he  played  profitably 
for  five  years.  In  1899  he  produced  "The  Parish  Priest."  It  was 
followed  by  "The  Old  Mill  Stream,"  "The  Chief  Justice,"  and 
"Our  Pastor"  in  1904. 

SUMMERS,  Miss  Madlyn  Jane: 

Actress  and  dancer,  was  born  in  New  York.  She  is  the 
daughter  of  Captain  James  C.  Summers,  yachting  editor  of  the 
New  York  Tribune.  He  was  a  volunteer  officer  in  the  United 
States  Navy  during  the  Spanish-American  War,  and  is  now  an 
officer  of  the  Old  Guard,  of  New  York.  Her  first  engagement 
was  with  Klaw  &  Brlanger's  "Ben  Hur"  company  at  the  Broad 
way  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1900.  She  then  joined  the  New 
York  Theatre  company,  dancing  in  "Broadway  to  Tokio,"  "The 
King's  Carnival"  and  other  productions  for  two  years.  In  No 
vember,  1902,  Miss  Summers  was  engaged  by  Mrs.  Robert  Os- 
born  to  appear  as  one  of  the  six  little  dancing  girls  who  sup 
ported  Blanche  Ring  in  "Tommy  Rot"  at  Mrs.  Osborn's  Play 
house.  In  the  summer  of  1903  she  was  engaged  by  Oscar  Ham- 
merstein  to  play  the  part  of  the  little  colored  toe  dancer  in  a 
piece  of  his  own  composition.  Weber  &  Fields  then  engaged  Miss 
Summers  for  the  new  production  with  which  they  opened  their 
music  hall  in  September,  1903.  In  April,  1905,  she  was  sent  to 
Chicago  by  the  manager  of  the  "San  Toy"  company  to  fill  the 
part  of  Pansy,  which  she  played  both  in  the  West  and  at  Daly's 
Theatre  in  New  York.  During  the  summer  of  1905  she  played 
the  part  of  Bennie,  the  newsboy,  and  sang  the  cowboy  song  in 
the  show  at  the  roof  garden  of  the  New  York  Theatre.  Joining 
Joe  Weber's  company  in  the  fall,  she  traveled  with  them  all 
through  the  South  as  far  as  New  Orleans,  returning  to  open  at 
their  music  hall  on  Broadway.  She  played  Grouchy,  the  small 
cowboy,  in  "The  Squaw  Man's  Girl  of  the  Golden  West."  The 
summer  of  1906  she  was  in  "Mile.  Champagne"  on  the  Madison 
Square  Roof  Garden,  New  York,  and  the  season  of  1907-8  she 
was  seen  in  "The  Parisian  Model"  with  Miss  Anna  Held. 

SUMMERVILLE,  Miss  Amelia  (Mrs.  Max  E.  Stepan) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Kildare,  Ireland,  being  the  daughter 
of  Thomas  Serby  Shaw.  Having  been  taken  to  Canada  when  a 
child,  she  was  educated  at  the  public  schools  in  Toronto.  She 
made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  with  Holman's  English 
Opera  Company,  in  Toronto,  when  she  was  only  eight  years  old. 
She  was  a  ballet  dancer  in  "The  Black  Crook"  company  for  two 
years.  When  quite  young  she  was  married  to  Frederick  Runnels. 


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She  obtained  a  divorce,  and  some  years  later  she  became  the 
wife  of  Max  E.  Stepan,  a  singer,  known  as  Max  Eugene.  Miss 
Summerville  made  her  greatest  success  as  Rosetta,  the  Merry 
Little  Mountain  Maid,  in  "Adonis,"  and  for  years  she  was  as 
sociated  with  that  part.  She  also  attracted  much  attention  as 
Baby  Malone  in  the  opera  "Brian  Born."  She  played  for  a  sea 
son  the  title  role  in  "Trilby,"  and  has  also  oeen  seen  in  "The 
Merry  World,"  "Cumberland,  '61,"  in  "Jane,"  and  in  "The  Cot 
ton  King."  The  season  of  1905-6  Miss  Summerville  played  Mrs. 
Shimmering  in  "The  Earl  and  the  Girl."  Her  New  York  ad 
dress  is  108  West  Forty-fifth  street. 

SUTHERLAND,  Mrs.  Evelyn  Greenleaf: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  September  15, 
1855,  being  the  daughter  of  James  and  Rachel  Greenleaf  Baker. 
She  was  educated  in  Boston  and  at  Geneva,  Switzerland.  She 
is  the  author  of  eighteen  one-act  plays  prominent  among  which 
are  "Rohan,  the  Silent,"  produced  by  Alexander  Salvini;  "Cin 
derella  and  the  Telephone,"  by  Miss  Minnie  Dupree,  and  "A  Bit 
of  Instruction,"  by  Henry  Woodruff.  Her  more  important  plays 
are  "Fort  Frayne,"  in  collaboration  with  General  Charles  King 
and  Emma  Sheridan  Fry,  produced  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  Chi 
cago,  August  30,  1897;  "Beaucaire,"  in  collaboration  with  Booth- 
Tarkington,  produced  at  the  Garrick,  Philadelphia,  October  7, 
1901,  by  Richard  Mansfield;  "Joan  o'  the  Shoals,"  by  Miss  Hen 
rietta  Crosman,  Philadelphia,  January  21,  1902;  "A  Rose  of 
Plymouth  Town,"  by  Miss  Minnie  Dupree,  New  Britain,  Conn., 
September  4,  1902;  "The  Breed  of  the  Treshams,"  by  Martin 
Harvey,  Newcastle,  England,  September  28,  1903;  "Boy  O'Car- 
roll,"  by  Martin  Harvey,  Newcastle,  England,  April  27,  1906; 
"Young  Fernald,"  by  Henry  Miller,  Majestic  Theatre,  Boston,. 
May  28,  1906;  "The  Lilac  Room,"  by  Miss  Amelia  Bingham,  Nor 
folk,  Va.,  October  29,  1906;  "The  Road  to  Yesterday,"  Garrick 
Theatre,  Chicago,  November  11,  1906,  and  "Matt  of  Merrymount,"' 
by  Fred  Terry,  Newcastle,  England,  October  11,  1906.  Mrs. 
Sutherland  was  married  to  Dr.  John  Preston  Sutherland,  now 
dean  of  Boston  University  School  of  Medicine,  in  1879.  Her 
home  is  at  302  Beacon  street,  Boston,  Mass. 

SUTIIO,  Alfred: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  London  August  7,  1863.  He  was 
educated  at  the  City  of  London  School  and  at  Brussels.  He  is 
the  author  of  "Carrots,"  produced  in  England  by  Forbes-Robert 
son  and  played  in  this  country  by  Ethel  Barrymore;  "The  Chili 
Widow,"  "The  Cave  of  Illusion,"  "Ella's  Apology,"  "A  Game  of 


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Chess,"  "The  Gutter  of  Time,"  "Mr.  Steinmann's  Corner,"  "Wom 
en  in  Love"  (1902),  "Arethusa,"  "A  Lovely  Life"  (1903),  "A 
Marriage  Has  Been  Arranged,"  "The  Walls  of  Jericho,"  produced 
at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  London,  in  1904,  and  afterward  by  J.  K. 
Hackett  in  the  United  States;  "A  Perfect  Lover,"  produced  in 
1905;  "The  Fascinating  Mr.  Vanderveldt,"  produced  in  New  York 
in  1906,  and  "The  Price  of  Money,"  produced  at  the  Garrick 
Theatre,  New  York,  in  September,  1906,  with  W  .H.  Crane  in  the 
star  part.  His  "John  Glayde's  Honor"  was  played  by  James  K. 
Hackett  in  this  country  the  season  of  1907-8.  Mr.  Sutro  has 
translated  several  of  Maeterlinck's  books  into  English.  His  home 
address  is  10  Russell  Mansions,  Southampton  row,  W.  C.,  Lon 
don,  England. 

TALIAFERRO,  Miss  Mabel  (Mrs.  Frederick  W.  Thompson) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  May  21,  1887,  and  be 
gan  her  stage  career  when  a  child,  playing  with  Chauncey  Ol- 
cott,  James  A.  Herne  and  other  prominent  actors.  The  season 
of  1889-1900  she  was  seen  as  Esther  in  "The  Children  of  the 
Ghetto,"  making  her  first  marked  success.  The  season  of  1901-2 
she  appeared  in  "The  Price  of  Peace"  with  Sarah  Cowell  Le- 
moyne,  and  in  "The  Land  of  Heart's  Desire."  She  resumed  her 
studies  in  Massachusetts  for  a  year,  and  upon  her  return  to  the 
stage  appeared,  the  season  of  1902-3,  in  "An  American  Invasion" 
with  John  E.  Dodson  and  Annie  Irish.  She  then  was  seen  with. 
Louis  Mann  in  "The  Consul,"  and  in  "The  Little  Princess."  The 
following  year  she  created  the  role  of  Lovey  Mary  in  "Mrs. 
Wiggs  of  the  Cabbage  Patch,"  playing  it  two  and  a  half  years. 
In  1905  she  supported  Arnold  Daly  in  "You  Never  Can  Tell," 
originating  the  part  of  Dolly  Clandon,  and  then  went  on  tour 
in  "The  Bishop's  Carriage."  Soon  afterward  she  entered  vaude 
ville,  and  later  toured  Australia  in  "On  the  Quiet"  with  Will 
iam  Collier.  On  November  12,  1906,  she  appeared  in  "Pippa 
Passes"  at  the  Majestic  Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of 
1907-8  she  starred  in  "Polly  of  the  Circus."  Miss  Taliaferro  was 
married  to  Frederick  W.  Thompson,  manager,  October  31,  1906. 
Her  home  is  at  202  West  Seventy-ninth  street,  New  York. 

TANGUAY,  Miss  Eva: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Marbleton,  Canada,  of  French-Canadian 
parents,  in  August,  1878,  and  was  educated  in  Holyoke,  Mass. 
When  ten  years  old  she  was  singing  in  a  church  choir  and  ap 
peared  on  "Amateur  Nights"  at  Parson's  Hall,  Holyoke.  Her 
first  professional  engagement  was  with  E.  P.  Sullivan,  to  play 
child  parts  in  the  Rose  Stahl  Repertoire  Company.  For  five 


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years  she  played  "Little  Lord  Fauntleroy,"  receiving  at  the  same 
time  private  education  on  the  road.  She  then  played  Miss  Vir 
ginia  Earle's  part  in  "Merry  World,"  the  Prince  in  Palmer 
Cox's  "Brownies,"  and  in  A.  H.  Chamberlin's  "My  Lady"  com 
pany.  When  she  was  only  fifteen  years  old  she  was  starred  in 
the  Eva  Tanguay  Comedy  Company,  then  being  the  youngest 
star  on  the  American  stage.  She  played  in  "The  Hoodoo"  at 
the  Imperial  Music  Hall,  New  York;  the  part  of  Phorosia  in 
"The  Chaperones,"  and  then  made  her  biggest  hit  starring  in 
"My  Sambo  Girl."  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  in  vaudeville. 
Her  home  is  in  Holyoke,  Mass. 

TEMPEST,  Miss  Marie  (Mrs.  Cosmo  C.  Gordon-Lennox) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  London  July  15,  1862,  being  the  daugh 
ter  of  Edwin  and  Sarah  Etherington.  She  was  educated  at  the 
Convent  des  Ursulines,  Thildonck,  Belgium,  and  studied  music 
in  Paris  and  at  the  Royal  Academy  of  Music,  London,  where 
she  took  the  silver  medal  for  Italian  and  the  gold  medal  for 
English  singing.  While  a  student  there,  and  still  in  her  'teens, 
she  married  a  young  pianoforte  student  named  Izard.  A  few 
years  afterward  Izard  obtained  a  divorce  and  $50,000  damages 
for  the  alienation  of  his  wife's  affections  from  the  late  Henry  J. 
Leslie,  then  lessee  and  manager  of  the  Lyric  Theatre,  London. 
Miss  Tempest  made  her  first  appearance  as  a  prima  donna  of 
light  opera  at  the  Comedy  Theatre,  London,  in  "Boccaccio"  in 
1880.  She  afterward  played  in  "The  Fay  o'  Fire"  at  the  Opera 
Comique  and  in  "Frivoli"  at  the  Drury  Lane  Theatre.  In  1884 
she  made  her  first  great  success  as  Dorothy  in  the  opera  of  that 
name  by  B.  C.  Stephenson  and  Alfred  Cellier.  This  was  first 
produced  at  the  Gaiety  Theatre  by  George  Edwardes,  where  it 
fell  flat.  Henry  J.  Leslie  then  took  a  lease  of  the  Lyric  Theatre 
and  starred  Miss  Tempest  in  the  part.  The  result  was  a  record- 
breaking  success.  "Doris"  and  "The  Red  Hussar"  followed.  Then 
Mr.  Leslie  brought  Miss  Tempest  and  his  entire  company  to  this 
country,  where  she  met  with  extraordinary  personal  success  and 
he  with  financial  failure.  Under  the  title  of  the  "Dresden  China 
Prima  Donna"  Miss  Tempest  starred  in  "Carmen,"  "Mignon," 
"Manon,"  "The  Fencing  Master,"  "Vogelhandler,"  and  "The  Al 
gerian."  In  1895  she  returned  to  England  and  appeared  in  "The 
Artist's  Model"  at  Daly's  Theatre,  London,  and  in  "The  Geisha" 
in  1896;  "The  Greek  Slave"  in  1898,  and  "San  Toy"  in  1889.  In 
1900  she  forsook  the  comic  opera  stage  for  legitimate  comedy, 
appearing  as  Nell  Gwynn  in  "English  Nell";  Becky  Sharp  and 
in  1903,  in  "The  Marriage  of  Kitty,"  an  adaptation  from  the 
French,  by  Cosmo  Charles  Gordon-Lennox — a  son  of  Lord  Alex- 


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ander  Gordon-Lennox,  brother  of  the  Duke  of  Richmond — who 
had  become  Miss  Tempest's  second  husband.  She  afterward 
toured  this  country  with  her  own  company  in  this  play.  Dur 
ing  the  season  of  1905-6  she  played  "The  Freedom  of  Suzanne" 
in  London.  After  that  she  was  seen  in  vaudeville  at  the  Palace 
Theatre,  London.  Her  home  is  2  Portman  square,  London,  W.  C. 

TEMPLETON,  Miss  Fay  (Mrs.  William  Patterson) : 

Comedienne,  was  born  in  Savannah,  Ga.,  in  1865,  her  father, 
the  late  John  Templeton,  formerly  editor  of  The  Tammany 
Times,  New  York,  being  well  known  as  a  theatrical  manager  at 
that  time,  and  her  mother,  now  Mrs.  Alf.  C.  Whelan,  of  New 
York,  a  comic  opera  prima  donna,  known  on  the  stage  as  Alice 
Vane.  As  a  child  Miss  Templeton  was  cradled  in  dressing-rooms 
and  whenever  a  baby  was  needed  in  the  cast  she  was  utilized. 
She  was  three  years  old  when  she  made  her  stage  debut,  dressed 
as  Cupid,  and  sang  fairy  songs,  and  four  years  later  she  made 
her  first  appearance  in  New  York  as  Puck  in  Augustin  Daly's 
production  of  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream"  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House.  In  the  four  years  intervening  between  those  two 
appearances  she  had  played,  even  starred,  throughout  the  West 
and  South  in  the  Templeton  Opera  Company,  managed  by  her 
father,  and  in  which  her  mother  also  acted.  From  the  Grand 
Opera  House  she  went  to  San  Francisco  with  her  father's  com 
pany,  and  there  first  began  giving  imitations  and  burlesques  of 
prominent  actors.  She  returned  to  New  York  again,  to  appear 
at  Niblo's  Garden,  spent  half  a  dozen  years  in  repertoire  tours 
through  the  South  and  West,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  had  be 
come  a  light  opera  star  of  national  standing.  She  was  the  first 
Bettina  of  "The  Mascot"  in  this  country.  She  succeeded  Eliza 
Weathersby  as  Gabriel  in  Edward  E.  Rice's  "Evangeline,"  ap 
pearing  in  it  at  the  Fourteenth  Street  Theatre  in  New  York  and 
playing  the  part  for  two  years.  When  she  was  fifteen  years  old 
and  while  both  were  members  of  her  father's  company  Miss 
Templeton  had  eloped  with  "Billy"  West,  the  minstrel,  and  been 
married  to  him  at  Nashville,  Tenn.  They  separated  in  two  months 
and  were  divorced  three  years  later.  Following  "Evangeline" 
she  appeared  in  Rice's  "Corsair"  in  New  York.  She  met  Howell 
Osborn,  a  man  about  town,  who  was  known  as  "The  King  of 
Dudes,"  and  went  to  France  with  him,  where  they  were  married. 
The  marriage  was  kept  secret,  because  Osborn's  relatives  had 
threatened  to  disinherit  him  if  he  married  the  actress,  and  was 
only  revealed  at  Osborn's  death  in  1895,  when  he  bequeathed 
$100,000  to  his  wife.  It  was  in  1887,  after  her  marriage  to  Os 
born,  that  Miss  Templeton  upset  the  theatrical  world  of  London. 


424  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAG-E 

She  appeared  in  George  Edwardes's  production  of  "Monte  Cristo, 
Jr.,"  and  sang  a  song,  "I  Like  It,  I  Do."  The  Lord  Chamber 
lain,  England's  theatre  censor,  objected  to  the  song  and  Miss 
Templeton's  costume  as  improper.  Mr.  Edwardes  discharged 
her,  but  she  fought  him  in  the  courts  and  forced  him  to  let 
her  appear  without  a  sash  which  the  Lord  Chamberlain  had 
stipulated  she  should  wear  and  sing  the  interdicted  song.  After 
a  period  of  absence  from  the  stage,  which  she  spent  abroad  with 
Osborn,  she  appeared  at  the  Fourteenth  Street  Theatre,  New 
York,  in  the  burlesque  "Hendrick  Hudson;  or,  The  Discovery  of 
Columbus."  This  proving  a  failure  she  again  retired  from  the 
footlights.  Her  reappearance  was  in  1893  when  she  brought  out 
"Mme.  Favart."  It  was  not  until  1895  when  Edward  E.  Rice 
engaged  her  for  "Excelsior  Jr.,"  that  she  leaped  again  into  popu 
lar  favor.  She  next  joined  the  Weber  &  Fields  Music  Hall  Com 
pany  and,  devoting  herself  almost  entirely  to  burlesque,  took 
New  York  by  storm.  She  left  the  music  hall  in  1899,  to  con 
tinue  her  success  in  "The  Man  in  the  Moon"  and  "Broadway  to 
Tokio, "  produced  at  the  New  York  Theatre,  and  also  in  the  same 
season  played  a  vaudeville  engagement,  in  which  she  first  pre 
sented  her  imitation  of  Fougere,  the  Parisian  chanteuse.  On 
August  1,  1906,  after  ending  her  season  in  successful  runs  in 
New  York  and  Chicago  in  George  M.  Cohan's  "Forty-five  Minutes 
from  Broadwy,"  Miss  Templeton  made  her  third  matrimonial 
venture,  being  married  on  that  date  to  William  Patterson,  a  wid 
ower  and  wealthy  manufacturer  of  elevator  and  conveying  ap 
paratus,  of  Pittsburg,  at  Ridgely  Park,  Pa. 

TERRY,  Edward  O'Connor: 

Actor  and  manager,  was  born  in  London,  England,  March  10, 
1844,  and  made  his  first  appearance  in  the  farce  "The  Lottery 
Ticket"  in  Christchurch,  England,  August  15,  1863,  his  salary 
then  being  three  dollars  a  week.  He  was  in  the  same  company 
with  the  late  Sir  Henry  Irving  when  both  were  getting  only  five 
dollars  a  week  each.  He  made  his  first  success  at  the  Strand 
Theatre,  London,  where  for  seven  years  he  was  principal  come 
dian,  and  in  1876  he  joined  the  famous  Gaiety  Theatre  Company, 
remaining  there  as  co-star  with  Nellie  Farren  for  eight  years. 
He  built  his  own  (Terry's)  theatre,  London,  and  opened  it  with 
"The  Churchwarden"  in  1887.  This  was  followed  by  Pinero's 
"Sweet  Lavender,"  which  ran  there  for  670  nights.  Since  then 
he  has  produced  many  notable  successes  and  toured  the  world 
as  a  star  with  his  own  company.  He  visited  this  country  in 
1902,  but  failed  to  win  appreciation.  Mr.  Terry  has  been  treas 
urer  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Freemasons,  England.  He  is  treas- 


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urer  of  the  Royal  General  Theatrical  Fund  of  England,  and  gov 
ernor  and  trustee  of  many  charities.  His  homes  are  Priory 
Lodge,  Barnes,  London;  and  Doll's  House,  Broadstairs,  England, 

TERRY,  Miss  Ellen  Alice  (Mrs.  James  Carew) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Coventry,  England,  February  27,  1848, 
being  the  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  Terry,  well-known 
provincial  actors  and  descendants  of  old  theatrical  stock.  She 
first  appeared  on  the  stage  at  the  age  of  eight  as  Mamilius  in 
"A  Winter's  Tale,"  under  Charles  Kean,  at  the  Princess's  in 
London.  Some  years  later  she  joined  the  Bristol  company  of 
John  Chute  and  acted  with  Madge  Robertson,  Henrietta  Hodson 
and  Kate  Bishop.  In  1863  she  appeared  at  the  Royalty  and 
Haymarket  theatres,  London.  In  1864  she  married  G.  F.  Watts, 
R.A.,  the  celebrated  artist.  A  divorce  followed,  and  she  married 
Charles  Kelly  Wardell,  an  actor.  In  1867  she  reappeared  at  the 
Queen's  Theatre  in  "A  Double  Marriage,"  and  in  December  of 
the  same  year  played  Katherine  in  "Taming  of  the  Shrew,"  when 
for  the  first  time  she  acted  with  Irving.  In  1868  she  withdrew 
from  the  stage  for  seven  years,  emerging  again  to  play  the  part 
of  Philippa  Chester  in  "The  Wandering  Heir,"  by  Charles  Reed, 
at  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Theatre.  In  1875  she  played  Portia  in 
"The  Merchant  of  Venice"  with  the  Bancrofts,  and  subsequently 
went  with  John  Hare  to  the  Court  Theatre,  where  she  created 
the  part  of  Olivia  in  "The  Vicar  of  Wakefield,"  and  appeared  in 
Lord  Lytton's  play,  "The  House  of  Darnley."  She  first  appeared 
as  a  member  of  Henry  Irving's  company  at  the  Lyceum  in  1878 
as  Ophelia,  and  remained  with  him  as  leading  woman  up  to 
1902.  Among  the  parts  in  which  she  has  achieved  fame  are 
Desdemona,  Portia,  Lady  Macbeth,  Olivia,  Beatrice,  Marguerite, 
Imogene,  Viola,  Queen  Katherine,  Cordelia,  Lucy  Ashton,  Nance 
Oldfield  and  Madame  Sans  Gene.  She  visited  the  United  States 
several  times  as  leading  woman  for  Sir  Henry  Irving.  In  1901 
she  appeared  at  His  Majesty's  Theatre  with  Beerbohm  Tree  in 
"The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,"  in  which  Mrs.  Kendal  also  took 
part,  and  in  J.  M.  Barrie's  "Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire"  at  the  Duke  of 
York's  Theatre.  In  1905  she  made  an  extended  provincial  tour, 
and  in  1906  she  celebrated  her  stage  jubilee,  in  which  all  London 
took  part.  The  same  year  she  appeared  at  the  Court  Theatre, 
London,  as  Lad>  Cecily  Waynflete  in  G.  Bernard  Shaw's  "Cap 
tain  Brassbound's  Conversion,"  opening  in  New  York  at  the 
Empire  Theatre  in  the  same  play  in  January,  1907.  She  also 
played  "The  Good  Hope"  and  "Nance  Oldfield."  At  Pittsburg, 
Pa.,  on  March  22,  1907,  Miss  Terry  was  married  to  James  Carew, 
a  young  American  actor,  who  had  been  a  member  of  her  com- 


426  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

pany.     Her   home  is   Tower   Cottage,   Winchelsea,    Sussex,   Eng 
land. 

TERRY,  Fred: 

Actor  and  manager,  was  born  in  London  November  8,  1863. 
He  is  the  brother  of  Kate,  Ellen  and  Marion.  He  made  his  first 
appearance  at  the  Haymarket  Theatre,  in  "Money/'  in  1880.  This 
was  followed  by  a.  series  of  engagements  in  prominent  London 
companies,  including  that  of  the  late  Sir  Henry  Irving.  In 
partnership  with  Miss  Julia  Neilson,  whom  he  married  in  1901, 
he  became  manager  of  the  Haymarket  Theatre,  London,  in  1900, 
opening  with  "Sweet  Nell  of  Old  Drury."  Since  then  he  has 
produced  numerous  successes.  He  was  seen  at  the  New  Amster 
dam  Theatre,  New  York,  in  the  all-star  production  of  "The  Two 
Orphans"  in  1906. 

TERRY,  Miss  Kate  (Mrs.  Arthur  Lewis) : 

Actress,  was  born  April  21,  1844,  being  the  elder  sister  of 
Miss  Ellen  Terry.  She  made  her  first  appearance  when  seven 
years  old,  as  Roban  in  "The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor"  at  the 
Princess's  Theatre,  under  the  management  of  Charles  Kean.  For 
many  years  she  was  regarded  as  the  foremost  actress  on  the 
English  stage.  She  made  her  farewell  appearance  in  London  in 
1867,  the  occasion  being  made  memorable  by  the  greatest  ovation 
ever  paid  an  actress.  She  made  one  more  isolated  appearance 
at  the  Globe  Theatre,  London,  in  1898.  She  has  a  daughter, 
Mabel  Terry  Lewis,  on  the  stage. 

TERRY,  Miss  Marion: 

Actress,  was  born  in  London,  England,  October  16,  1856,  be 
ing  the  sister  of  Kate,  Helen  and  Fred  Terry.  She  made  her 
first  appearance  at  the  Theatre  Royal,  Manchester,  England,  as 
Ophelia  in  "Hamlet"  July  21,  1873,  and  since  then  has  played 
many  leading  parts  in  all  the  important  London  theatres,  among 
her  most  successful  creations  being  Dorothy  in  "Dan'l  Druce," 
Galatea  in  "Pygmalion  and  Galatea,"  Zeolide  in  "The  Palace  of 
Truth,"  all  at  the  Haymarket  Theatre;  Mabel  in  "Duty,"  Blanche 
Hayes  in  "Ours"  at  the  Prince  of  Wales's,  and  leading  parts  in 
many  later  plays.  She  played  Rosalind  and  Portia  at  Stratford- 
on-Avon  in  1900,  and  was  the  Marguerite  in  Sir  Henry  Irving's 
production  of  "Faust."  Her  home  is  at  32  Buckingham  Palace 
Mansions,  London. 

THEISE,  Mortimer  M. : 

Manager,  was  born  in  Poultney,  Vt.,  August  1,  1866,  and  was 
educated  at  the  schools  in  Fort  Edward,  N.  Y.  His  first  attempt 


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at  public  entertaining  was  as  lecturer  with  the  Engul  Clock,  pat 
terned  after  the  famous  Strasburg  timepiece,  which  toured  the 
country.  The  following  year,  although  he  was  but  a  mere  lad, 
he  joined  the  Allegheny  Bell  Ringers  and  Vocalists,  an  organi 
zation  composed  of  salon  entertainers.  Then  he  became  inter 
ested  in  the  Batchelor  and  Doris  Circus,  following  which  engage 
ment  he  became  associated  with  Whitmore  and  Clark's  Min 
strel  Troupe,  and  later  with  a  repertoire  company  in  light  opera. 
Wearying  of  the  stage,  he  became  interested  in  the  diamond 
business,  remaining  in  it  for  four  and  a  half  years.  In  April, 
1896,  he  began  building  the  Metropolis  Theatre,  New  York,  and 
completed  it  in  August,  1898.  The  following  March  he  sold  out 
his  interest  in  the  playhouse  and  opened  a  vaudeville  house  in 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.  In  1899  he  organized  the  "Wine,  Woman  and 
Song"  company  which,  after  running  on  the  burlesque  circuits 
for  six  seasons,  opened  at  the  New  Circle  Theatre,  New  York, 
for  a  continuous  run  of  a  season  and  a  half  on  October  26,  1906. 
The  season  of  1907-8  he  produced  "Across  the  Pond"  and  "The 
Two  Islands."  Mr.  Theise  is  a  Mystic  Shriner.  His  permanent 
address  is  1402  Broadway,  New  York. 

THOMAS,  Augustus: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  January  9,  1859,  be 
ing  the  son  of  Dr.  E.  B.  Thomas.  He  was  educated  at  the  public 
schools.  He  was  a  page  boy  of  the  Forty-first  Congress,  and 
afterward,  for  six  years,  was  a  railroad  worker.  He  then  became 
a  special  writer  for  newspapers  in  St.  Louis,  Kansas  City  and 
New  York.  At  one  time  he  was  the  editor  and  proprietor  of  the 
Kansas  City  Mirror.  While  in  St.  Louis  Mr.  Thomas,  with  W.  F. 
Dickson,  W.  G.  Smythe,  now  a  theatrical  manager,  and  Edwin 
Smith,  the  playwright,  then  a  budding  actor,  organized  the  Dick- 
son  Sketch  Club,  and  for  that  organization  he  wrote  a  one-act 
play  from  Mrs.  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett's  story,  "Editha's 
Burglar,"  in  which  he  acted  Bill  Lewis,  the  burglar.  Delia  Fox 
made  her  first  stage  appearance  at  the  same  time  as  Editha.  The 
success  of  this  little  play  determined  Mr.  Thomas's  career.  He 
expanded  it  to  four  acts,  and  Maurice  Barrymore  starred  in  it 
under  the  title  of  "The  Burglar."  In  1890  Mr.  Thomas  married 
Lisle  Colby,  the  daughter  of  John  Colby,  with  whom  he  had 
studied  law,  and  thenceforth  devoted  himself  to  dramatic  litera 
ture.  He  is  the  author  of  "Alabama,"  "In  Mizzoura,"  played  by 
Nat  Goodwin;  "Arizona,"  "Colorado,"  "Man  of  the  World,"  "Aft 
erthoughts,"  "The  Man  Upstairs,"  "The  Meddler,"  "Oliver  Gold 
smith,"  "On  the  Quiet,"  played  by  William  Collier;  "A  Proper 
Impropriety,"  "That  Overcoat,"  "The  Capitol,"  "New  Blood," 


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"The  Hoosier  Doctor,"  "The  Earl  of  Pawtucket,"  which  brought 
Lawrance  D'Orsay  into  prominence;  "The  Other  Girl,"  "Mrs. 
Leffingwell's  Boots,"  "The  Education  of  Mr.  Pipp,"  for  Digby 
Bell;  "De  Lancey,"  played  by  John  Drew;  "The  Embassy  Ball," 
"The  Ranger,"  produced  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  September  2, 
1907,  and  "The  Witching  Hour,"  produced  at  Hackett's  Theatre, 
New  York,  November  18,  1907.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Century, 
The  Players,  The  Lambs  and  the  American  Dramatists'  clubs. 
His  home  is  at  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

THOMAS,  Miss  Dorothy: 

Actress,  was  born  in  England  and  studied  for  the  stage  un 
der  William  Farren.  She  made  her  first  appearance  with  Ben 
Greet's  company  in  1898,  playing  a  round  of  leading  parts  in 
old  English  comedies.  •  In  1902  she  became  a  member  of  Beer- 
bohm  Tree's  company,  remaining  for  three  years  at  the  Haymar- 
ket  Theatre,  during  which  she  played  Daisy  Dene  in  "The  Man 
Who  Was,"  Honorine  in  "Trilby,"  Katrina  in  "Resurrection," 
etc.  She  was  also  understudy  for  the  parts  of  Miranda  in  "The 
Tempest,  and  Hero  in  "Much  Ado  About  Nothing."  Joining  Ar 
thur  Bourchier's  company,  she  played  Lady  Alethea  in  "The 
Walls  of  Jericho"  and  other  parts.  In  April,  1907,  Miss  Thomas 
appeared  in  "The  Liars"  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  London,  with. 
Sir  Charles  Wyndham.  She  came  to  this  country  the  following 
autumn,  creating  the  leading  part  of  Christobel  in  Henry  Arthur 
Jones's  "The  Evangelist,"  produced  at  the  Knickerbocker  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  September  30,  1907. 

THOMPSON,  Denman: 

Actor,  was  born  October  15,  1833,  in  Beechwood,  Erie  County, 
Pa.,  and  was  taken,  when  a  boy  of  seven,  to  New  Hampshire,  be 
ing  reared  amid  New  England  surroundings.  When  he  was  sev 
enteen  years  old  Mr.  Thompson  joined  a  circus,  and  for  a  year 
appeared  as  an  acrobat.  He  then  went  into  mercantile  business 
in  Lowell,  Mass.,  in  the  museum  of  which  town  he  made  his  first 
appearance  on  the  regular  stage  in  1852,  playing  a  small  part  in 
"The  French  Spy."  The  following  year  he  joined  a  stock  com 
pany  in  Worcester,  Mass.  From  1854  to  1868  he  was  attached 
to  a  dramatic  company  in  Toronto,  also  playing  brief  engage 
ments  in  that  time  at  Chicago  and  making  a  professional  trip 
to  London,  England.  For  three  years  Mr.  Thompson  abandoned 
the  stage  and  was  engaged  in  business  in  Toronto;  then,  in  1871, 
he  went  into  the  vaudeville  houses,  and  four  years  later  pro 
duced  a  sketch  called  "Joshua  Whitcomb,"  in  which  he  portrayed 
the  peculiarities  of  the  New  England  farmer,  a  careful  study  of 


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whom  he  had  made  in  his  early  days.  This  sketch  he  elaborated 
into  a  play  under  the  same  name  and  for  years  toured  the  coun 
try  with  it.  From  this  he  evolved  "The  Old  Homestead,"  re 
taining  in  the  new  'play  his  old  character  and  introducing  sev 
eral  other  New  England  types.  "The  Old  Homestead"  was  first 
produced  at  the  Fourteenth  Street  Theatre,  New  York,  January 
10,  1887,  and  immediately  leaped  into  huge  success.  Mr.  Thomp 
son  has  starred  in  this  play  almost  continuously  ever  since.  He 
played  it  throughout  the  season  of  1907-8.  Mr.  Thompson  is 
also  the  author  of  "The  Sunshine  of  Paradise  Alley,"  produced 
in  1896. 

TILLY,  Miss  Vesta  (Mrs.  Walter  de  Freece) : 

Vaudeville  singer,  was  born  in  Worcester,  England,  being  the 
daughter  of  the  late  Harry  Ball,  a  vaudeville  comedian.  She 
made  her  first  appearance,  when  only  three  years  old,  at  Glouces 
ter,  England,  and  has  been  continuously  before  the  public  ever 
since.  At  six  years  of  age  she  was  known  as  "Tiny  Tilly,  the 
pocket  Sims  Reeves."  She  then  sang  songs  in  a  childish  voice, 
dressed  in  the  full  evening  dress  of  a  man.  She  has  worn  male 
attire  in  her  business  ever  since.  She  has  frequently  visited  this 
country,  where  she  is  popular.  In  private  life  Miss  Tilly  is  the 
wife  of  her  manager,  Walter  de  Freece.  The  season  of  1907-8 
she  was  in  vaudeville  in  England. 

TOWNE,  Edward  Owings: 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Iowa  February  19,  1869,  and  was 
educated  at  the  Iowa  Central  University.  For  ten  years  he  prac 
tised  law  in  Chicago.  His  first  play,  "By  Wits  Outwitted,"  was 
produced  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in  1891.  Since 
then  he  has  written  "Other  People's  Money,"  produced  at  the 
Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1895,  and  in  which  the 
late  Hennessy  Leroyle  starred  for  ten  years,  playing  the  prin 
cipal  part  over  4,000  times;  "Too  Rich  to  Marry,"  produced  at 
Litt's  Theatre,  Minneapolis,  in  1898;  "A  Game  of  Wits,"  pro 
duced  at  the  Chicago  Opera  House,  1899,  and  "In  Old  Madrid." 
Mr.  Towne  married  Sarah  Johnston  Cooper  and  has  one  son, 
born  in  1891.  He  is  the  president  of  the  Theatregoers'  Club  of 
America,  and  his  home  is  at  116  East  Twenty-eighth  street, 
New  York. 

TRACY,  Miss  Helen: 

Actress,  was  born  in  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  and  was  educated  in 
San  Francisco,  to  which  city  her  parents  moved  when  she  was  a 
child.  She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  there  with  a  stock 


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company  at  the  California  Theatre.  After  a  season  in  stock  at 
the  Boston  Theatre,  Boston,  Mass.,  she  became  a  member  of 
Wallack's  company,  New  York,  in  1870,  remaining  two  seasons. 
Engagements  with  Wybert  Reeve,  Dion  Boucicault  and  Mme. 
Modjeska  followed,  when  Miss  Tracy  became  associated  with 
the  Kiralfy  productions,  in  which  she  was  leading  woman  for 
years.  She  then  supported  Robert  Downing  in  "Spartacus,"  and 
afterward  played  the  title  role  in  "She."  The  season  of  1891-2 
she  supported  W.  J.  Scanlan,  and  later  joined  Mrs.  Leslie  Car 
ter,  remaining  in  her  support  five  years,  and  being  seen  in  "The 
Heart  of  Maryland,"  and  "Zaza."  She  was  with  Miss  Mary  Man- 
nering  in  "Janice  Meredith,"  and  Miss  Virginia  Harned  in  "Alice 
of  Old  Vincennes."  After  appearing  with  Miss  Millie  James  in 
"The  Little  Princess,"  she  supported  Miss  Jessie  Millward,  Henry 
Miller  and  Elizabeth  Tyree  for  successive  seasons.  She  was  then 
seen  in  support  of  Miss  Bertha  Galland  and  with  Digby  Bell  in 
"The  Education  of  Mr.  Pipp."  The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  she  played 
Mrs.  Blaney  in  "The  Hypocrites." 

TREE,  Beerbohm  (Herbert  Beerbohm) : 

Actor  and  manager,  was  born  in  London  December  17,  1853, 
and  made  his  first  stage  appearance  at  the  Town  Hall,  Folk- 
stone,  England,  in  1878.  The  same  year  he  appeared  at  the 
Globe,  London,  as  Grimaldi,  at  a  matinee  for  charity.  His  first 
success  was  as  the  Rev.  Robert  Spalding  in  "The  Private  Secre 
tary"  in  1883.  His  creation  of  the  principal  roles  in  "Called 
Back"  and  "Jim  the  Penman"  brought  him  into  great  promi 
nence.  In  1887  he  became  lessee  of  the  Haymarket  Theatre,  Lon 
don,  at  which  for  ten  years  he  made  many  important  produc 
tions.  He  has  been  recognized  as  the  representative  English 
actor  since  the  death  of  Sir  Henry  Irving.  In  1897  he  built  and 
opened  His  Majesty's  Theatre,  London,  which  he  has  since  con 
tinued  to  manage.  Mr.  Tree  married  Miss  Maud  Holt,  an  actress, 
known  on  the  stage  as  Mrs.  Beerbohm  Tree,  in  1883. 

TROUTMAN,  Miss  Ivy: 

Actress,  was  born  and  educated  at  Long  Branch,  N.  J.  Be 
ing  ambitious  for  a  stage  career,  she  went  to  New  York  in  1902 
and  succeeded  in  obtaining  an  engagement  at  Wallack's  Theatre 
for  a  very  small  part  in  "The  Last  Appeal."  She  next  appeared 
as  one  of  Villon's  boisterous  companions  with  E.  H.  Sothern  in 
"If  I  Were  King."  A  short  engagement  with  Grace  George  in 
"Pretty  Peggy"  followed,  and  then  for  two  years  she  supported 
Amelia  Bingham,  attracting  attention  by  her  acting  of  Miss 
Godesby  in  "The  Climbers."  In  the  spring  of  1905  Miss  Trout- 


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man  joined  the  Castle  Square  Company  in  Boston,  playing  a 
large  number  of  parts.  The  season  of  1905-6  she  played  Bessie 
Tenner  in  "The  College  Widow,"  and  in  "Gallops"  with  Charles 
Richman.  Her  home  is  at  Long  Branch,  where  she  is  well  known 
as  an  expert  swimmer. 

TRUAX,  Miss  Sarah   (Mrs.  Charles  S.  Albert) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Cincinnati  February  12,  1877.  She  was 
educated  in  Chicago,  where  she  made  her  first  appearance  as 
Lady  Castlemaine  in  "His  Grace  de  Grammont"  with  Otis  Skin 
ner,  under  the  management  of  Joseph  Buckley,  in  September, 
1894.  She  remained  three  years  with  Mr.  Skinner,  playing  Por 
tia  in  "The  Merchant  of  Venice,"  Pauline  in  "The  Lady  of 
Lyons,"  the  Queen  and  Ophelia  in  "Hamlet,"  Elizabeth  in  "Rich 
ard  III,"  Lady  Capulet  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet,"  Lucretia  Borgia 
in  "A  Soldier  of  Fortune,"  and  a  part  in  "Villon,  the  Vagabond." 
She  then  went  into  stock  companies,  playing  intermediate  sum 
mers  with  Mr.  Skinner  in  the  larger  cities  of  the  West.  Miss 
Truax  made  her  first  prominent  success  as  Pauline  in  "The  Lady 
of  Lyons."  Other  parts  in  which  she  has  been  conspicuously 
successful  are  Roma  in  "The  Eternal  City,"  Princess  Irene  in 
"The  Prince  of  India,"  Glory  Quayle  in  "The  Christian,"  and 
the  title  roles  in  "Leah,  the  Forsaken"  and  "The  Adventure  of 
Lady  Ursula."  The  season  of  1906-7  she  appeared  in  "The 
Double  Life"  at  the  Bijou  Theatre,  New  York.  The  season  of 
1907-8  she  starred  in  "The  Spider's  Web."  Miss  Truax  married 
Guy  Bates  Post,  the  actor,  in  1897,  and  was  divorced  ten  years 
later.  She  was  married  to  Charles  S.  Albert,  an  attorney,  of 
Minneapolis,  Minn.,  January  22,  1908.  Her  favorite  recreations 
are  music  and  walking.  Her  permanent  address  is  care  of  John 
Cort,  1402  Broadway,  New  York. 

TYLER,  George  Grouse: 

Manager,  was  born  in  Ohio  April  13,  1867,  and  started  life 
as  a  newspaper  man.  He  became  manager  for  James  O'Neill  in 
1894,  and  three  years  later  organized  the  firm  of  Liebler  &  Co., 
which  began  by  starring  the  late  Charles  Coghlan.  The  firm  has. 
since  starred  Viola  Allen  in  "The  Christian,"  Eleanor  Robson, 
Elsie  Janis,  Kyrle  Bellew,  William  Faversham,  Arnold  Daly, 
Eleanora  Duse,  W.  H.  Crane,  Guilbert  and  Chevalier,  and  many 
others.  Mr.  Tyler's  business  address  is  2  West  Thirty-eighth 
street,  New  York  City. 

TYLER,  Miss  Odette  (Mrs.  R.  D.  Shepherd) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Savannah,  Ga.,  September  26,  1872.  Her 
father  was  General  William  W.  Kirkland,  an  officer  in  the  Con- 


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federate  army  during  the  Civil  War,  her  maiden  name  being 
Elizabeth  Lee  Kirkland.  She  was  educated  at  Loretto  Convent, 
Guleph,  Ontario.  When  she  was  fourteen  years  old  she  made 
her  first  appearance  on  the  stage,  under  the  name  of  Odette  Ty 
ler,  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York,  under  the  man 
agement  of  Daniel  Prohman.  Two  years  later  she  played  small 
parts  on  the  road  with  Minnie  Maddern  in  "Caprice"  and  other 
plays.  She  played  the  leading  part  in  the  production  of  "Shen- 
andoah"  in  1892.  She  was  a  member  of  Charles  Frohman's  stock 
company  at  the  Twenty-third  Street  Theatre  for  five  years,  play 
ing  in  "Men  and  Women,"  "The  Lost  Paradise,"  "The  Girl  I 
Left  Behind  Me,"  "The  Younger  Son,"  and  "The  Councillor's 
Wife,"  in  the  last  named  of  which  she  played  the  title  part  and 
made  her  first  pronounced  success.  She  also  supported  Nat 
Goodwin  for  a  season  in  Boston,  playing  in  "Colonel  Tom."  She 
starred  in  "Phroso"  under  the  management  of  Charles  Frohman. 
Miss  Tyler,  in  conjunction  with  her  husband,  has  recently  ap 
peared  at  the  head  of  her  own  companies,  the  season  of  1905-6 
maintaining  a  stock  repertoire  company  at  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  season  of  1906-7  she  played  in  "The  Love  Route."  On  April 
1,  1897,  Miss  Tyler  became  the  wife  of  Rezin  Davis  Shepherd, 
of  Shepherdstown,  W.  Va.,  who  has  adopted  the  stage  as  a  pro 
fession  and  plays  under  the  name  of  R.  D.  MacLean.  They  own 
a  magnificent  country  estate  of  a  thousand  acres,  called  Wild 
Goose,  at  Shepherdstown,  which  was  named  after  Mr.  Shepherd. 
Miss  Tyler  is  the  author  of  "Boss:  A  Story  of  Virginia  Life," 
many  magazine  stories  and  the  play  "Red  Carnation,"  which  was 
produced  in  New  York. 

TYREE,  Miss  Elizabeth    (Mrs.  James  Metcalf) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Virginia,  her  family  being  of  Scotch 
descent.  Her  great-grandfather  fought  in  the  War  of  the  Revo 
lution,  and  her  father  was  a  colonel  in  the  Confederate  army 
during  the  Civil  War.  Miss  Tyree,  deciding  to  adopt  the  stage 
as  a  profession,  went  to  New  York  in  1890  and  studied  at  a 
dramatic  school,  where  she  attracted  the  attention  of  Mrs.  Ken- 
dal,  the  English  actress,  who  procured  for  her  an  engagement 
with  the  Lyceum  Stock  Company,  which  lasted  over  a  period  of 
ten  years.  Miss  Tyree  made  her  first  success  as  Phyllis  Lee  in 
"The  Charity  Ball."  Subsequently  she  supported  E.  H.  Sothern, 
Georgia  Cayvan  and  John  Drew.  One  of  her  greatest  hits  was 
as  Avonia  Boun  in  "Trelawney  of  the  Wells."  She  also  played  in 
"The  Dancing  Girl,"  "Lady  Bountiful,"  "The  Gray  Mare,"  "The 
Guardsman,"  "An  American  Duchess,"  "Our  Country  Cousins," 
"The  Amazons,"  "A  Woman's  Silence,"  "The  Case  of  Rebellious 


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Susan,"  "An  Ideal  Husband,"  "The  Benefit  of  the  Doubt,"  "The 
Courtship  of  Leonie,"  "When  a  Man's  Married,"  "The  May 
flower,"  "The  Princess  and  the  Butterfly,"  "The  Liars,"  "Ameri 
cans  at  Home,"  "The  Manoauvres  of  Jane,"  "The  Ambassador," 
"The  Men  of  Forty,"  and  "Unleavened  Bread."  Miss  Tyree  also 
appeared  in  "The  Romanesques"  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre, 
New  York,  and  as  Molly  Pitcher  in  "Captain  Molly"  at  the  Man 
hattan  Theatre. 

UNDERWOOD,  Miss  Isabella  (Mrs.  Ernest  E.  Fiscus) : 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  Belleville,  111.  She  made 
her  first  appearance,  as  an  amateur,  as  Katisha  in  "The  Mikado" 
at  a  benefit  performance  given  by  the  Thursday  Club  at  the 
Columbia  Theatre,  Chicago,  in  1895.  Her  first  professional  ap 
pearance  was  as  the  Queen  in  "The  Bohemian  Girl"  July  4,  1896, 
at  the  Schiller  Theatre,  Chicago,  in  a  stock  company.  In  the 
fall  of  1900  Miss  Underwood  appeared  as  Jack  in  the  first  pro 
duction  of  A.  Baldwin  Sloane's  "Jack  and  the  Beanstalk,"  which 
opened  in  Brooklyn  and  then  made  a  long  tour  of  the  country. 
The  following  season  she  was  the  Lorraine  in  the  late  Kirke  La 
Shelle's  production  of  "Princess  Chic."  Mere  recently  she  was 
seen  as  Paola  and  as  the  Queen  in  "King  Dodo"  under  the  Sav 
age  management,  and  as  Willie  in  "The  Burgomaster"  under  the 
management  of  W.  W.  Tillotson.  Miss  Underwood  played  prima 
donna  roles  throughout  the  summer  season  of  1902  in  a  com 
pany  under  her  own  management  at  Pleasure  Bay,  Long  Branch, 
N.  J.,  and  the  following  fall  she  appeared  as  Gabriel  in  a  revival 
of  E.  E.  Rice's  "Evangeline"  in  Boston  and  Philadelphia.  The 
seasons  of  1904  and  1905  Miss  Underwood  played  Prince  Charm 
ing  in  "Beauty  and  the  Beast."  The  fall  season  of  1906  she  was 
with  "The  Gingerbread  Man"  company.  Miss  Underwood  was 
married  to  Ernest  E.  Fiscus  May  18,  1907.  She  is  a  member  of 
the  Actors'  Church  Alliance.  Her  favorite  recreations  are  tennis 
and  bowling. 

TJRQTJHART,  Miss  Isabelle: 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  December  9,  1865.  She  died 
in  the  spring  of  1907.  For  full  biography  see  "Who's  Who  on 
the  Stage,"  1906  edition. 

VANBRUGH,  Miss  Violet  (Mrs.  Arthur  Bourchier)  : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Exeter,  England,  June  11,  1865,  being 
the  daughter  of  a  minister.  She  was  educated  for  the  stage 
under  Sarah  Thorne,  and  made  her  first  appearance  in  1886  at 
Toole's  Theatre,  London.  She  later  was  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ken- 


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dal  in  "The  Weaker  Sex,"  and  the  season  of  1890-1  came  to  Amer 
ica  with  them,  appearing  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New 
York.  On  her  return  to  London  she  joined  Sir  Henry  Irving's 
company  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  London,  and  in  1895  appeared 
as  leading  woman  with  Arthur  Bourchier  in  numerous  important 
productions.  The  season  of  1904-5  she  was  seen  in  "The  Walls 
of  Jericho,"  and  in  the  fall  of  1905  as  Portia  in  "The  Merchant 
of  Venice."  The  season  of  1906-7  she  appeared  in  Shakespearian 
repertoire,  and  in  "The  Duel,"  and  also  played  her  original  part 
in  "The  Walls  of  Jericho."  The  season  of  1907-8  she  appeared 
with  her  husband  in  London.  Miss  Vanbrugh  married  Arthur 
Bourchier,  the  English  actor-manager,  in  1894.  She  is  a  sister 
of  Irene  Vanbrugh,  the  English  actress. 

VAN  BUSKIRK,  Miss  June    (Mrs.  Percival  J.  Mitchell) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Pleasant  View,  W.  Va.,  June  22,  1880; 
and  was  educated  at  the  Convent  of  the  Sacred  Heart  there. 
After  a  course  in  a  New  York  school  of  acting  she  made  her 
professional  debut  as  the  Maid  in  "Catherine"  at  the  Garrick 
Theatre,  New  York,  early  in  1899.  She  left  the  stage  until  1903, 
appearing  on  February  5  of  that  year  as  Ella  Seaforth  in  "The 
Earl  of  Pawtucket,"  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  with  Law- 
ranee  D'Orsay.  The  spring  of  1903  she  wras  seen  with  Thomas 
Ross  in  "Checkers,"  and  the  following  year  appeared  in  London 
as  Miss  Vanderfeld  in  "Lady  Flirt"  at  the  Haymarket  Theatre. 
She  was  subsequently  seen  in  "The  Walls  of  Jericho,"  "An  Angel 
Unawares,"  and  "Mr.  Grundy. "  In  March,  1906,  she  appeared 
as  Lady  Dorothy  in  "The  Candidate,"  and  the  season  of  1906-7 
as  Stella  in  "The  Electric  Man."  She  went  on  tour  through 
England  the  season  of  1907-8.  Miss  Van  Buskirk  was  married 
to  Percival  J.  Mitchell,  a  wealthy  London  clubman,  December  17, 
1907. 

VERNON,  Miss  Ida: 

Actress,  was  born  in  1843.  Her  father  was  an  officer  in  the 
British  army,  a  younger  son  of  the  Scotch  Earl  of  Caithness,  her 
mother  of  French  Huguenot  extraction.  She  made  her  debut  at 
the  Boston  Theatre  in  September,  1856,  as  one  of  the  Little  Blos 
som  Fairies  in  "A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream."  She  played  with 
Edwin  Forrest  as  a  member  of  the  old  Boston  Theatre  company, 
and  in  New  York  with  Charlotte  Cushman,  Laura  Keene  and 
many  famous  actors.  Miss  Vernon  was  a  young  and  popular  ac 
tress  in  Richmond  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  War,  and  there,  al 
though  young,  had  accumulated  considerable  property.  This  was 
confiscated  after  the  burning  of  that  city,  and  she  divided  her 


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time  between  acting  and  nursing  in  the  hospitals.  She  ran  the 
blockade  once,  when  coming  North  to  bring  a  little  niece,  cross 
ing  the  Potomac  on  a  flat  boat.  Attempting  to  return,  she  was 
arrested  at  Martinsburg  and  sent  to  Washington.  When  released 
she  came  to  New  York,  bat  soon  made  another  attempt  to  return 
to  Richmond.  She  was  arrested  at  Fortress  Monroe,  where  she 
was  held  in  prison  for  six  weeks.  When  freed  again,  Miss  Ver- 
non  sailed  to  London,  remaining  there  some  time  with  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Charles  Matthews.  Sailing  to  Halifax  and  thence  to  Ber 
muda,  she  managed  to  reach  Williamsburg,  N.  C.,  on  a  coasting 
vessel,  and  thence  she  went  to  Richmond.  She  had  several  new 
plays  that  had  never  been  seen  in  the  South,  among  them  "Leah" 
and  "East  Lynne,"  the  latter  of  which  she  played  120  nights, 
something  unprecedented  in  Richmond.  After  the  war  Miss  Ver- 
non  was  leading  woman  with  J.  K.  Emmett  and  later  was  a 
star.  The  season  of  1906-7  she  supported  Mrs.  Fiske,  and  that 
of  1907-8  appeared  in  Booth  Tarkington's  "The  Man  from  Home." 

VICTOR,  Miss  Josephine  (Mrs.  Francis  E.  Reid) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Erdo  Benye,  a  village  on  the  Tokay 
Hills,  Hungary,  in  June,  1885,  being  the  daughter  of  a  wine 
grower  named  Ginsler.  She  came  to  America  at  the  age  of 
eight,  and  was  educated  at  public  and  private  schools  in  New 
York  City.  For  a  time  she  studied  art  at  Cooper  Union,  and 
then  took  a  course  in  acting  in  a  well-known  dramatic  school  in 
New  York.  She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  with  Howard 
Kyle  in  "Nathan  Hale"  on  tour  the  season  of  1902-3,  and  the  fol 
lowing  year  supported  Kathryn  Osterman  in  "Miss  Petticoats." 
The  season  of  1904-5  she  returned  to  Mr.  Kyle's  company  as  lead 
ing  woman,  appearing  in  "Nathan  Hale,"  and  "The  Greater 
Love."  In  1905  Miss  Victor  left  the  stage  temporarily,  and  the 
season  of  1906-7  was  understudy  for  Bertha  Kalish  in  "The 
Kreutzer  Sonata."  The  summer  of  1907  she  was  leading  woman 
with  the  Hunter-Bradford  Players  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  the 
early  part  of  the  season  of  1907-8  appeared  as  Joy  in  Channing 
Pollock's  "The  Secret  Orchard,"  produced  at  the  Lyric  Theatre, 
New  York,  December  16,  1907.  Miss  Victor  married  Francis  E. 
Reid,  a  theatrical  manager  and  member  of  the  firm  of  Hunter- 
Bradford-Reid.  Her  favorite  recreation  is  motoring.  Her  New 
York  address  is  Room  607,  Broadway  and  Thirty-ninth  Street 
Building. 

VICTORIA,  Vesta    (Lawrence)  : 

Vaudeville  actress  and  singer;  is  the  daughter  of  the  late 
"Joe"  Lawrence,  an  old-time  English  variety  performer,  who  first 


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earned  popularity  by  standing  on  his  head,  by  which  he  was 
known  as  the  "upside-down  comedian."  Born  and  educated  in 
London,  she  first  appeared  in  the  music  halls  of  that  city  about 
eighteen  years  ago.  The  song  which  first  brought  her  popularity 
was  "Daddy  Wouldn't  Buy  Me  a  Bow-wow."  This  was  whistled 
and  sung  everywhere.  She  brought  it  to  this  country,  where  it 
became  a  craze.  For  years  she  has  been  a  popular  vaudeville 
and  music  hall  performer  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.  Her  suc 
cessful  song  of  1905,  "It's  All  Right  in  the  Summertime,"  waa 
eclipsed  by  her  1906  song,  "Waiting  at  the  Church,"  which  at 
tained  extraordinary  popularity.  The  season  of  1907-8  she  was 
in  vaudeville  in  this  country,  her  chief  song  hit  being  "Poor 
John. " 

VINCENT,  Miss  Ruth  (Mrs.  John  Fraser) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Yarmouth,  England,  being  the  daughter 
of  Henry  Vincent.  She  was  educated  for  the  stage  under  Jacques 
Bouhy  in  Paris,  and  made  her  first  appearance  in  1897  as  Elsie 
Maynard  in  a  revival  of  "Yeomen  of  the  Guard"  at  the  Savoy 
Theatre,  London.  She  was  subsequently  seen  in  a  number  of 
Gilbert  and  Sullivan  revivals,  and  in  1903  created  the  title  role 
in  "Veronique"  at  the  Apollo  Theatre,  London,  and  appeared  in 
that  play  in  this  country  the  season  of  1905-6.  She  later  was 
seen  in  "The  Girl  on  the  Stage"  at  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Thea 
tre,  London,  and  the  season  of  1906-7  originated  the  title  role  in 
"Amasis"  at  the  New  Theatre,  that  city. 

VIZARD,  Harold: 

Actor,  was  born  at  Windsor,  England,  in  1871,  and  was  edu 
cated  at  Epsom  College.  He  studied  for  the  medical  profession 
at  Radcliffe  Infirmary,  Oxford,  England,  during  1888-9,  but  the 
latter  year  went  on  the  stage,  playing  Captain  De  Lascours  in 
"Sea  of  Ice"  at  the  Theatre  Royal,  Margate,  under  the  manage 
ment  of  Sarah  Thome.  He  remained  in  her  stock  companies 
two  seasons,  then  joined  Charles  Darnton,  playing  Picard  in  "The 
Two  Orphans."  In  July,  1891,  he  came  to  this  country  and 
ranched  in  California.  In  1892  he  joined  the  Alcazar  Theatre 
Stock  Company  in  San  Francisco  and  played  in  other  companies 
on  the  Pacific  Coast  until  April,  1896,  when  he  created  the  part 
of  Fletcher  in  "Madame"  at  Palmer's  Theatre,  New  York.  He 
then  played  Ducie  in  the  original  production  of  "The  Girl  from 
Paris"  at  the  Herald  Square  Theatre  December,  1906,  and  toured 
in  the  same  piece  the  following  season.  After  a  short  time  in 
vaudeville,  supporting  Rose  Coghlan,  he  was  engaged  by  the  late 
Augustin  Daly,  succeeding  Wilfred  Clark  as  Lord  Coddle  in  "A 
Runaway  Girl"  at  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York,  November,  1898. 


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The  season  of  1899-1900  he  created  the  part  of  Col.  Bogey  Bulger 
in  "Three  Little  Lambs"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  and  next 
season  supported  Jefferson  De  Angelis  as  La  Blanc  in  "A  Royal 
Rogue"  at  the  Broadway  Theatre.  The  season  of  1902-3  he 
played  Sir  Joseph  Verity  in  "A  Country  Girl"  at  Daly's  and  on 
tour.  The  season  of  1904-5  he  created  Sir  Peter  Loftus  in  "The 
Cingalee"  at  Daly's,  and  was  in  the  revival  of  "San  Toy"  April, 
1905.  The  following  season  he  was  with  Raymond  Hitchcock  in 
"The  Galloper,"  produced  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York, 
January  22,  1906.  He  was  in  stock  in  Denver  and  in  "Cingalee" 
and  "Country  Girl"  tours  until  August  12,  1907,  when  he  created 
the  part  of  Dr.  Blazes  in  "The  Alaskan,"  under  the  management 
of  John  Cort,  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre,  New  York.  Mr. 
Vizard  is  a  member  of  The  Lambs,  and  Masonic  Lodge  "Charity" 
727,  New  York.  His  home  is  at  26  Beaumont  street,  Oxford, 
England. 

WAINWRIGHT,  Miss  Marie  (Mrs.  Franklyn  Roberts) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  May  8,  1853,  being  a 
daughter  of  the  late  Commodore  Wainwright,  U.  S.  N.,  and  grand 
daughter  of  Bishop  Wainwright.  She  was  educated  chiefly  in 
Paris,  where  she  trained  for  the  lyric  stage.  She  afterward  de 
cided  to  embrace  the  legitimate,  and  she  made  her  first  appear 
ance  on  the  professional  stage  at  Booth's  Theatre,  Sixth  avenue 
and  Twenty-third  street,  New  York,  May  17,  1877,  in  a  scene 
from  "Romeo  and  Juliet"  at  George  Rignold's  benefit,  when  he 
played  Romeo  to  six  Juliets.  Then  she  accepted  an  engagement, 
from  Mr.  Rignold  to  play  the  Princess  in  "Henry  V."  Her  next 
appearance  was  as  Josephine  in  "Pinafore,"  of  which  she  wa* 
the  first  representative  in  this  country,  at  the  Boston  Museum; 
November  25,  1878.  After  this  she  created  the  part  of  Nadge  in 
"The  Exiles"  at  the  Boston  Theatre.  Then  she  became  leading, 
woman  for  Lawrence  Barrett,  with  him  playing  Francesca  in* 
"Francesca  da  Rimini."  From  Mr.  Barrett's  company  she  went 
to  David  Belasco's  company  in  New  Orleans  as  a  stock  star.. 
Then  she  starred  with  Louis  James  for  three  years,  playing  Vir 
ginia,  Desdemona,  Ophelia,  Beatrice,  Rosalind  and  Gretchen.  In; 
1899  she  was  married  to  Franklyn  Roberts,  an  English  actor,, 
and  the  same  year  accepted  an  engagement  with  F.  F.  Proctor 
to  play  a  season  of  vaudeville.  Miss  Wainwright  played  Agnes 
Langham  in  "Dr.  Belgraff"  at  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  New 
York,  September  4,  1905,  and  she  afterward  played  Margaret 
Wilson  in  "The  Prodigal  Son."  The  spring  of  1906  she  was  seen 
in  "The  Transcoso  Trail,"  and  recently  she  has  been  playing 
in  vaudeville  houses. 


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WALCOT,  Charles  M. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  July  1,  1843,  and  was  edu 
cated  at  St.  John's  College,  Fordham,  N.  Y.  He  made  his  first 
stage  appearance  with  a  Charleston  (S.  C.)  stock  company  in 
1858,  and  the  season  of  1861-2  was  seen  as  Isadore  Girodot  in 
"The  Cup  and  the  Lip,"  opening  in  New  York  on  October  7.  He 
joined  the  Walnut  Street  Theatre  Stock  Company,  in  Philadel 
phia,  in  1867,  and  remained  with  that  organization  nearly  twelve 
years.  He  subsequently  was  associated  with  the  late  Joseph  Jef 
ferson,  and  with  Rose  Coghlan,  and  toured  in  "Esmeralda."  He 
then  joined  the  Lyceum  Theatre  Stock  Company,  New  York,  and 
appeared  in  all  their  successes  until  1900.  The  season  of  1901-2 
he  was  seen  with  Amelia  Bingham  in  "The  Climbers,"  and  that 
of  1905-6  with  Blanche  Bates  in  "The  Darling  of  the  Gods."  In 
1907  he  appeared  in  "The  Duel"  with  Otis  Skinner. 

WALKER,  Miss  Charlotte  (Mrs.  Dr.  John  B.  Hayden) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  Galveston,  Tex.,  in  1878.  Her  great- 
grandmother  was  a  Pinckney  and  one  of  the  belles  of  Charleston, 
S.  C.,  before  the  Civil  War.  Her  grandfather,  Pinckney  Walker, 
was  British  Consul  at  several  Southern  cities  during  the  re 
bellion.  Miss  Walker  had  appeared  in  several  amateur  perform 
ances  before  her  professional  debut,  which  was  made  in  the 
chorus  of  a  musical  play  soon  after  the  Galveston  flood,  in  which 
she  lost  her  home.  Before  the  end  of  the  year  she  was  playing 
the  leading  woman's  part.  Her  career  began  in  earnest  in  1895, 
when  she  was  one  of  Richard  Mansfield's  company.  In  1896  she 
appeared  at  the  Comedy  Theatre  in  London  with  Charles  Haw- 
trey's  company.  On  her  return  to  America,  in  1897,  she  was  en 
gaged  by  James  K.  Hackett  to  create  the  role  of  Virginia  Carvel 
in  "The  Crisis,"  and  for  the  next  four  years  she  was  his  leading 
woman.  The  season  of  1905-6  she  played  leading  roles  in  eight 
different  productions  in  New  York.  The  season  of  1906-7  she 
played  Constance  Pinckney  in  the  war-time  play  "On  Parole." 
The  season  of  1907-8  she  was  starred  by  David  Belasco  in  "The 
Warrens  of  Virginia,"  opening  at  the  Belasco  Theatre,  New  York, 
December  3,  1907. 

WALSH,  Miss  Blanche  (Mrs.  W.  M.  Travers) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  January  4,  1873,  her  father 
being  the  late  Thomas  Power  Walsh,  at  one  time  warden  of  the 
Tombs.  Miss  Walsh  was  graduated  from  Public  School  No.  50 
in  1886.  She  had  long  desired  a  stage  career,  and  a  year  after 
her  graduation  she  made  her  first  amateur  appearance  at  a  bene 
fit  performance  at  the  Windsor  Theatre  on  the  Bowery.  She 


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played  Desdemona.  Her  debut  on  the  professional  stage  was 
made  before  she  was  sixteen  years  old  with  Thomas  McDonough, 
in  the  melodrama  "Siberia."  Her  next  engagement  was  with 
Marie  Wainwright,  with  whom  she  remained  for  three  seasons, 
appearing  as  Olivia  in  "Twelfth  Night,"  Zamora  in  "The  Honey 
moon,"  Florence  Marygold  in  "My  Uncle's  Will,"  Madeline  in 
""Frederic  Lemaitre, "  Grace  Harkaway  in  "London  Assurance," 
and  Queen  Elizabeth  in  "Amy  Robsart."  She  then  went  under 
the  management  of  Charles  Frohman,  creating  the  role  of  Diana 
Stockton  in  Bronson  Howard's  "Aristocracy"  in  1892.  After  ap 
pearing  as  Kate  Kennion  in  "The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me,"  she 
became  Nat  Goodwin's  leading  woman,  playing  with  him  in  "A 
Gilded  Fool,"  "In  Mizzoura,"  "David  Garrick,"  "The  Nominee," 
"The  Gold  Mine,"  and  "Lend  Me  Five  Shillings."  As  the  leading 
woman  of  a  summer  stock  company  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  she 
appeared  in  "Pink  Dominoes,"  "My  Awful  Dad,"  "American  As 
surance,"  "My  Wife's  Mother,"  and  "Romeo's  First  Love."  In 
1895  she  acted  the  adventuress,  Mrs.  Bulford,  in  "The  Great  Dia 
mond  Robbery,"  and  in  November  of  the  same  year,  when  Vir 
ginia  Harned  became  suddenly  ill,  took  her  place  as  Trilby  in 
Du  Maurier's  play,  continuing  in  it  until  the  end  of  the  season. 
The  next  season  she  was  again  Nat  Goodwin's  leading  woman, 
accompanying  him  on  an  Australian  our,  and  appearing,  in  ad 
dition  to  the  roles  she  had  already  played  with  him,  as  Lydia 
Languish  in  "The  Rivals,"  and  Louise  in  "Gringoire."  On  her 
return  to  New  York  she  joined  A.  M.  Palmer's  stock  company, 
creating  in  it  the  role  of  Margaret  Neville  in  "Heartsease"  in  Oc 
tober,  1896.  She  next  played  a  dual  role,  brother  and  sister,  in 
"Straight  from  the  Heart."  After  one  rehearsal  she  took  the 
heroine  role,  Edith  Varney,  in  William  Gillette's  "Secret  Service," 
and  went  with  the  company  to  the  Adelphi  Theatre,  London,  in 
May,  1897.  Following  an  engagement  with  Sol  Smith  Russell  in 
"A  Bachelor's  Romance"  at  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York,  she 
became  a  member  of  the  Empire  Theatre  Stock  Company  in 
January,  1898,  to  play  Jeanne  Marie  in  "The  Conquerors."  In 
1899  she  gave  up  the  place  of  leading  woman  in  the  Manhattan 
Beach  Stock  Company  of  Denver,  Col.,  to  star  with  Melbourne 
MacDowell  in  the  repertoire  of  the  Sardou  plays  which  made 
Fanny  Davenport  famous.  As  Cleopatra  in  "Antony  and  Cleo 
patra,"  as  Fedora  and  as  La  Tosca  she  made  her  mark  as  a 
tragedy  actress.  After  several  seasons  she  and  Mr.  MacDowell 
severed  their  association,  and  in  1903-4  she  starred  in  a  dramati 
zation  of  Tolstoy's  "Resurrection."  The  season  of  1904-5  she  was 
seen  in  "The  Woman  in  the  Case."  She  opened  the  fall  of  1906 
in  a  dramatization  of  Tolstoy's  "Kreutzer  Sonata"  and  toured 


440  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

in  it.  The  seasons  of  1907-8  she  starred  in  "The  Straight  Road." 
Miss  Walsh  married  W.  M.  Travers  in  1906.  Her  home  is  The 
Lilacs,  at  Great  Neck,  Long  Island,  N.  Y. 

WALSH,  Lionel: 

Actor,  was  born  at  Woolwich  Common,  Kent,  England,  Janu 
ary  28,  1876,  and  was  educated  at  Oxford  University.  He  made 
his  first  appearance  as  the  Demon  King  in  pantomime  at  the 
Chatham  Opera  House,  England,  December  31,  1897,  under  the 
management  of  Miss  Sarah  Thorne,  in  whose  stock  companies 
he  continued  to  act  for  two  and  a  half  years,  playing  all  classes 
of  parts — from  general  utility  to  leads.  He  was  successful  as 
Mark  Cross  in  "The  Idler,"  lago  in  "Othello,"  Mortimer  Mumple- 
ford  in  "Confusion,"  and  many  others.  After  two  short  engage 
ments  in  London  with  Edward  Terry  and  W.  S.  Penley,  in  Janu 
ary,  1900,  he  went  to  South  Africa  in  the  Thirtieth  Cavalry  Regi 
ment  and  fought  all  through  the  Boer  War.  He  remained  in 
South  Africa  nine  months  after  the  war,  with  the  rank  of  Cap 
tain,  and  in  February,  1903,  he  came  to  this  country  and  went 
to  Wyoming.  After  owning  a  furniture  store  and  two  hotels 
there  he  went  into  cattle-  and  horse-ranching,  and  returned  to 
the  stage  in  September,  1905.  He  made  his  first  marked  success 
as  Frank  Beauchamp  in  "John  Hudson's  Wife"  at  Weber's  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  in  September,  1908.  He  played  Lord  Choppen- 
tott  in  "The  Lady  from  Lane's,"  opening  at  the  Lyric  Theatre, 
New  York,  August  19,  1907,  and  was  later  seen  in  "The  Hoyden" 
with  Elsie  Janis.  Mr.  Walsh  is  a  member  of  the  Imperial  Service 
Club,  London,  and  The  Players,  New  York.  His  favorite  recre 
ations  are  riding  and  lawn  tennis.  His  address  is  care  of  Low's 
Exchange,  1123  Broadway,  New  York. 

WARD,  Miss  Fanny  (Mrs.  Joseph  Lewis) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  in  1875,  and  wras  edu 
cated  in  her  native  city.  Through  the  influence  of  one  of  her 
father's  friends  she  made  her  first  stage  appearance  as  Cupid 
in  "Adonis."  Her  pictures  attracted  the  attention  of  artists  and 
for  a  time  she  posed  as  a  model.  In  1897  she  went  to  London 
with  an  American  company,  and  was  subsequently  engaged  for 
"The  Shop  Girl"  at  the  Gaiety  Theatre  there,  under  George  Ed- 
wardes's  management.  She  then  appeared  in  leads  at  the  Drury 
Lane  Theatre,  and  was  seen  with  Charles  Hawtrey  in  "The 
Cuckoo,"  and  "Lord  and  Lady  Algy,"  at  the  Avenue  Theatre, 
London.  That  year  she  was  married  to  Joseph  Lewis,  a  wealthy 
diamond  merchant,  and  temporarily  left  the  stage.  She  returned 
to  it  within  a  few  years,  appearing  for  eighteen  months  in  "A 


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Night  Off,"  and  then  in  Clyde  Fitch's  "The  Climbers"  at  the 
Comedy  Theatre,  London.  She  returned  to  the  United  States  in 
1906  and  was  seen  as  Rita  Forrest  in  J.  Hartley  Manner's  "A 
Marriage  of  Reason"  with  Kyrle  Bellew  at  Wallack's  Theatre, 
New  York,  April  1,  1907,  and  later  in  "A  Fool  and  a  Girl." 

WARD,  Miss  Genevieve  (Countess  de  Ghierbel) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  New  York  City  March  27,  1834,  being, 
the  daughter  of  the  late  Samuel  Ward.  She  studied  for  the 
operatic  stage  in  Italy  and  France,  and  made  her  first  appear 
ance  in  1856,  singing  the  title  role  in  "Lucrezia  Borgia"  at  La 
Scala,  Milan,  under  the  name  of  Madame  Genevra  Guerrabella. 
She  returned  to  this  country  in  1862,  appearing  at  the  Academy 
of  Music,  New  York,  as  Violetta  in  "La  Traviata,"  and  subse 
quently  made  a  tour  of  Cuba,  where  she  lost  her  voice.  Going 
back  to  Europe,  she  was  seen  in  numerous  dramas  and  tragedies, 
and  in  September,  1878,  again  visited  America,  under  her  maiden 
name,  appearing  at  Booth's  Theatre,  New  York,  as  Lady  Macbeth, 
and  other  roles.  Later  she  was  seen  in  England  as  Stephanie  in 
"Forget-Me-Not,"  with  which  she  became  associated  and  in 
which  she  appeared  in  nearly  every  English-speaking  country 
in  the  world.  She  joined  Sir  Henry  Irving's  company,  support 
ing  him  in  such  plays  as  "Becket,"  "Richard  III,"  and  "King 
Arthur,"  and  then  retired  temporarily  from  the  stage.  In  the 
fall  of  1906  she  appeared  as  Cleito  in  "The  Virgin  Goddess"  at 
the  Adelphi  Theatre,  London.  Miss  Ward  married  the  Count  de 
Guerbel  in  1855.  He  deserted  her.  Her  favorite  recreations  are- 
swimming  and  painting.  Her  home  is  at  22  Avenue  road,  Re 
gent's  Park,  London,  England. 

WARDE,  Frederick  B. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Warrington,  England,  February  23,  1851,. 
being  the  son  of  a  schoolmaster.  He  was  educated  for  the  law; 
but,  choosing  a  stage  career,  he  made  his  first  appearance  at  the' 
Lyceum  Theatre,  Sunderland,  England,  September  4,  1867,  plaj- 
ing  the  Second  Murderer  in  "Macbeth."  Mr.  Warde  came  to  this- 
country  in  1874,  making  his  first  appearance  as  Marston  Pike  in 
"Belle  Lamar"  at  Booth's  Theatre,  New  York,  August  10.  For 
three  years  he  was  leading  man  at  Booth's  Theatre,  supporting 
such  stars  as  Charlotte  Cushman,  Adelaide  Neilson,  John  McCul- 
lough,  Lawrence  Barrett  and  E.  L.  Davenport.  He  then  sup 
ported  Edwin  Booth  on  tour,  and  in  1881  began  starring  on  his 
own  account.  From  1893  to  1903  he  was  joint  star  with  Louis 
James.  He  then  played  Matho  in  "Salambo"  with  Miss  Kathryn 
Kidder.  The  season  of  1905-6  he  toured  at  the  head  of  his  own> 
company  in  "The  Winters  Tale"  and  repertoire. 


442  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

WARFIELD,  David: 

Actor,  began  his  theatrical  life  as  an  usher  in  the  Busii. 
Street  Theatre  in  San  Francisco.  Acquiring  a  reputation  as  a 
clever  mimic,  he  got  a  chance  to  exhibit  his  talents  on  the  stage 
and  made  a  local  hit  in  caricatures  of  Salvini  in  "Othello,"  and 
Bernhardt  in  "Camille,"  in  a  play  called  "About  Town."  In 
1890  he  went  to  New  York  looking  for  work  of  any  kind  and 
spent  his  first  week  at  a  concert  hall  in  Eighth  avenue,  where 
a  Broadway  manager  happened  to  see  him  and  gave  him  an  en 
gagement  with  John  H.  Russell  in  "The  City  Directory."  In  the 
fall  of  1895  Mr.  Warfield  joined  the  New  York  Casino  Company 
and  remained  with  it  for  three  years.  It  was  in  this  engage 
ment  that  Mr.  Warfield  made  his  hit  as  the  East  Side  Jew.  Sev 
eral  times  he  asked  to  be  allowed  to  introduce  the  take-off  in 
the  productions,  but  met  with  no  encouragement.  Finally  his 
chance  came,  not  on  the  stage,  but  at  a  ball  game  for  charity 
at  the  Polo  Grounds  between  the  cast  of  "The  Merry  World" 
and  those  burlesquing  "Trilby."  All  the  other  actors  dressed 
up  in  their  parts,  but  Warfield  made  up  as  a  Jew  peddler  and 
sold  cracked  ice  as  souvenirs.  He  was  the  feature  of  the 
game,  and  from  then  on  he  was  allowed  to  introduce  his 
specialty  in  all  the  productions.  Mr.  Warfield  left  the  Casino 
company  to  join  the  Weber  and  Fields  forces,  and  remained 
there  until  the  fall  of  1901,  when  David  Belasco  made  him  a 
star  in  a  play  called  "The  Auctioneer."  This  was  followed  by 
"The  Music  Master,"  by  Charles  Klein,  which  had  a  record  run 
in  New  York.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  appeared  as  'Wes  Bigelow 
in  "The  Grand  Army  Man,"  which  opened  at  the  Stuyvesant 
Theatre,  New  York,  October  16,  1907. 

WARNER,  Miss  Anne  (Mrs.  Charles  Ellis  French) : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  October  14,  1869, 
being  the  daughter  of  William  P.  Warner,  a  business  man  of 
St.  Paul.  She  was  educated  at  the  public  schools  of  her  native 
city.  Besides  being  the  author  of  numerous  short  stories  and 
poems,  she  has  written  the  novels  "Susan  Clegg  and  Her  Friend 
Mrs.  Lathrop,"  and  "The  Rejuvenation  of  Aunt  Mary."  Her 
dramatization  of  the  latter  was  produced  at  the  Garden  Thea 
tre,  New  York,  October  11,  1907,  with  May  Robson  in  the  lead 
ing  role.  Miss  Warner  married  Charles  Ellis  French  September 
12,  1888.  Her  address  is  Hotel  Aberdeen,  St.  Paul. 

WARNER,  Henry  Byron  (Henry  Byron  Lickfold) : 

Actor,  was  born  in  London  in  1876,  being  the  son  of  Charles 
Warner,  the  well-known  English  actor.  He  was  educated  at  the 


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444  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Bedford  Grammar  School.  Adopting  his  father's  profession,  he 
played  small  parts,  making  his  first  success  as  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Eden  in  "It's  Never  Too  Late  to  Mend."  He  played  many  parts 
in  support  of  his  father,  and  succeeded  as  D'Artagnan  when  the 
elder  Warner  was  unable  to  play  through  illness.  After  much 
experience  in  England,  he  came  to  this  country  in  1905.  The 
season  of  1906-7  he  appeared  as  John  Danbury,  M.P.,  in  Israel 
Zangwill's  comedy  "Nurse  Marjorie"  in  support  of  Eleanor  Rob- 
son  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New  York;  in  "Susan  in  Search  of 
a  Husband,"  and  in  "The  Girl  Who  Has  Everything."  The  sea 
son  of  1907-8  he  was  seen  in  "Salomy  Jane." 

WEBB,  MissNella: 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  is  a  cousin 
of  the  late  General  Lew  Wallace.  She  made  her  first  appearance 
as  a  singer  at  the  Cincinnati  Zoological  Gardens  band  concerts. 
After  playing  several  smaller  parts,  she  made  her  first  success 
playing  Miss  Marie  George's  part  in  "The  Belle  of  New  York" 
under  the  management  of  George  W.  Lederer.  She  played  Miss 
Virginia  Earle's  part  in  "The  Girl  from  Up  There"  at  the  Duke 
of  York's  Theatre,  London,  England,  under  the  management  of 
Charles  Frohman,  and  afterward  took  a  part  with  Miss  Julia 
Marlowe  in  this  country  in  "The  Cavalier."  She  was  with  the 
"Dolly  Dollars"  company  as  understudy  to  Miss  Lulu  Glaser, 
and  played  the  principal  part  four  nights  in  Baltimore.  The 
season  of  1905-6  she  played  Daisy  in  "His  Honor  the  Mayor" 
under  the  management  of  Alfred  E.  Aarons,  succeeding  Miss 
Mabel  Hollins.  Her  favorite  recreations  are  horseback  riding 
and  "bridge." 

WEBER,  Joseph  M. : 

Comedian,  was  born  in  New  York  City  in  1867  and  was 
educated  at  the  Allen  Street  Public  School,  that  city.  His  first 
appearance  on  the  stage  was  at  the  age  of  eight  years.  He 
and  Lew  Fields  opened  the  Weber  and  Fields  Music  Hall  on 
the  East  Side  September  5,  1896,  in  a  burlesque  of  "The  Heart 
of  Maryland."  This  was  followed  with  "Geiser,"  "Miss  New 
York,  Esq.,"  "The  Glad  Hand,"  "Pousse  Cafe,"  "Hurley  Burley," 
"Helter  Skelter,"  "Fiddle-Dee-Doo,"  "Hoity-Toity,"  "Twiddle 
Twaddle,"  and  "The  Squaw  Man's  Girl  of  the  Golden  West,"  a 
burlesque  on  the  two  prominent  plays.  In  1904  the  firm  of 
Weber  &  Fields  was  dissolved,  and  Mr.  Weber  continued  the 
entertainment,  playing  a  similar  class  of  pieces  to  those  which 
had  made  the  old  firm  known  throughout  the  country.  The  sea 
son  of  1907-8  he  produced  "Hip!  Hip!  Hooray!"  and  burlesques 


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446  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

of  "The  Thief,"  "The  Grand  Army  Man,"  and  "The  Merry  Wid 
ow"  at  Weber's  Music  Hall,  New  York.  Mr.  Weber  married  Lill 
ian  Friedman  January  3,  1897.  His  home  is  at  611  West  One 
Hundred  and  Tenth  street,  New  York  City. 

WELFORD,  Dallas: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  England,  May  23,  1874,  and 
was  educated  at  King's  College,  London.  He  made  his  first  ap 
pearance  as  a  child  in  "The  Danites"  in  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  in 
1881.  He  also  played  child  parts  in  "Rob  Roy,"  "East  Lynne/' 
"Macbeth,"  "Richard  III,"  "Flowers  of  the  Forest,"  "Masks  and 
Faces,"  and  Young  Micawber  in  "Little  Emily."  When  seven 
teen  years  old  he  toured  the  .English  provinces  in  "The  Old 
Home,"  then  for  four  years  was  seen  in  melodrama,  playing 
such  parts  as  Farren  in  "Shadows  of  a  Great  City,"  Jo  Jones 
in  "Still  Alarm,"  Feeney  in  "Arrah-na-Pogue,"  Dicey  Morris  in 
"After  Dark,"  and  low  comedy  parts  in  most  of  the  late  Frank 
Harvey's  dramas.  He  also  played  Jaike  in  "The  Silver  King," 
Squire  Weston  in  "Sophia,"  Jene  Lagg  in  "The  Middleman," 
Talbot  Champneys  in  "Our  Boys,"  Adam  Chevy  in  "Prude's 
Progress,"  Marecat  in  "Peril,"  George  in  "Our  Flat,"  Jacques 
Strop  in  "Robert  Macaire,"  and  in  "Charley's  Aunt,"  "The  Magis 
trate,"  "Dodo,"  "The  Second  Mrs.  Tanqueray,"  etc.  His  first 
important  engagement  was  with  Mr.  Tree's  touring  company  in 
"A  Woman  of  No  Importance."  He  then  played  in  "My  Friend 
the  Prince,"  "The  Degenerates,"  "A  Runaway  Girl,"  and  "Off 
the  Ranks."  On  December  21,  1902,  he  played  Brown  in  "Brown 
at  Brighton"  at  the  Avenue  Theatre,  London,  and  scored  a  big- 
success.  He  afterward  played  Archie  Toddleby  in  "Glittering 
Gloria"  at  Wyndham's  Theatre,  London;  General  Marchmont  in 
"The  School  Girl"  at  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Theatre,  and  the 
principal  comedy  part  in  "The  Maid  from  School"  with  Miss 
Kitty  Loftus  at  Terry's  Theatre,  London.  Then  followed  a  long 
tour,  starring  in  "Brown  at  Brighton."  He  made  his  first  ap 
pearance  in  this  country  February  12,  1906,  as  Mr.  Hopkinson  in 
the  play  of  that  name  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York,  under 
the  management  of  J.  K.  Hackett,  and  scored  one  of  the  biggest 
successes  ever  attained  in  this  country  by  an  English  actor.  The 
early  part  of  the  season  of  1907-8  he  was  seen  here  in  "Public 
Opinion"  under  the  management  of  Mr.  Hackett,  and  later  ap 
peared  as  Shorty  in  "Twenty  Days  in  the  Shade,"  produced  at 
the  Savoy  Theatre,  New  York,  January  20,  1908.  Mr.  Welford 
married  Miss  Olive  Loftus,  a  sister  of  Miss  Kitty  Loftus,  the 
well-known  English  actress.  Mrs.  Welford  has  retired  from  the 
stage. 


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WEST,  Paul: 

Playwright  and  song  writer,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Janu 
ary  26,  1871.  He  was  educated  at  the  Boston  Latin  School  and 
at  Peeksk.ill  Military  Academy.  He  was  engaged  in  newspaper 
work  in  Lawrence,  Mass.,  and  Boston  from  1888  to  1892,  and 
then  became  press  agent  for  the  Boston  Theatre  and  Hoyt's  "A 
Temperance  Town,"  "A  Midnight  Bell,"  and  "The  Milk  White 
Flag"  companies  until  1894.  He  was  business  manager  for  Ca- 
mille  D'Arville  in  1894-5,  "The  Sphinx"  in  1895-6,  and  Frank 
Daniels  in  1896-7.  He  married  July  18,  1895,  Jane  Veronica  Car- 
rigan,  of  Boston.  He  resumed  newspaper  work  on  the  New  York 
Evening  Journal  in  1897,  and  has  been  on  the  New  York  Sunday 
World  since  1898.  He  has  two  children,  Jane  and  Paul  West. 
Mr.  West  is  the  author  of  "The  Man  from  China,"  a  musical  com 
edy,  produced  in  New  York  in  1903;  "The  Pearl  and  the  Pump 
kin,"  an  extravaganza,  produced  by  Klaw  &  Erlanger  in  1905; 
"Fad  and  Folly,"  produced  in  1904;  and  the  adapter,  for  Frank 
Daniels,  of  "Sergeant  Brue,"  produced  in  1905;  "Caramella," 
"Daphne,"  "The  Hindu,"  "The  Little  White  Dove,"  and  "Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Newly  wed  and  Their  Baby."  He  wrote  "The  Pearl 
and  the  Pumpkin,"  a  children's  book,  and  in  collaboration  has 
written  over  two  hundred  published  songs.  He  is  also  the  au 
thor  of  many  vaudeville  sketches.  He  wrote  and  composed  "The 
Gypsies,"  a  comic  operetta,  and  designed  the  costumes  for  it  in 
nineteen  hours.  His  home  is  at  272  West  Eighty-fourth  street, 
New  York. 

WHIFFEN,  Mrs.  Thomas: 

Actress,  was  born  in  London,  England,  March  12,  1845,  be 
ing  one  of  the  four  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Galton.  Her 
mother  was  for  a  short  time  a  singer  in  grand  opera,  as  were 
also  her  two  aunts,  Louisa  and  Susan  Pyne,  the  former  of  whom 
for  seven  years  was  proprietor  of  the  grand  opera  at  Covent 
Garden,  in  partnership  with  William  Harrison.  This  organiza 
tion  toured  America  for  three  years,  from  1854  to  1857.  With 
out  any  amateur  experience  Miss  Galton's  debut  took  place  in 
London  in  1865  as  a  fairy  in  a  burlesque,  "Turco  the  Terrible,"  at 
the  Royalty  Theatre.  In  1868  she  was  married  to  Thomas  Whiffen 
and  in  the  same  year  came  to  America  as  contralto  of  the  Galton 
Opera  Company,  her  sister  Susan  being  the  prima  donna,  her  hus 
band  the  light  tenor  and  Alfred  Kelleher,  afterward  her  sister's 
husband,  the  tenor  robusto.  After  two  years  of  varying  success  in 
this  operatic  family  she  entered  the  dramatic  field,  returning  to 
opera  for  a  short  while  as  the  original  Little  Buttercup  in  "Pina 
fore,"  in  which  her  husband  was  First  Lord  of  the  Admiralty. 


448  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Following  that  she  was  for  six  years  at  Mallory's  Madisoii 
Square  Theatre,  New  York,  making  a  specialty  of  old  women 
portrayals.  She  was  in  the  cast  of  the  original  production  of 
"Hazel  Kirke,"  which  ran  486  nights.  She  next  spent  a  year  in 
England,  returning  to  New  York  to  begin  her  fourteen  years* 
connection  with  Daniel  Frohman's  Lyceum  Theatre  Company. 
During  this  time  she  created  a  great  number  of  parts,  includ 
ing  the  Blind  Mother  in  "The  Charity  Ball,"  Mrs.  Gilfillian  in 
"Sweet  Lavender,"  Mrs.  Mossop  in  "Trelawney  of  the  Wells," 
etc.  After  her  husband's  death,  in  1897,  came  four  years  with 
Charles  Frohman's  company  at  the  Empire  Theatre,  New  York, 
and  then  seasons  in  support  of  Mary  Mannering,  Eleanor  Rob- 
son,  Ethel  Barrymore  and,  the  season  of  1905-6,  of  Margaret 
Aiiglin,  in  whose  production  of  "Zira"  she  was  Lady  Clavering. 
The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  she  was  seen  as  Mrs.  Jordan  in  "The 
Great  Divide"  with  Margaret  Anglin  and  Henry  Miller.  Mrs. 
Whiffen  is  a  member  of  the  Actors'  Church  Alliance  and  of  the 
Actors'  Fund. 

WHITTLESEY,  White: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Danbury,  Conn.,  and  was  educated  for 
the  stage  at  the  American  Academy  of  Dramatic  Arts.  He  made 
his  first  stage  appearance  in  the  spring  of  1889  as  Lamolle  in 
"The  Marquis"  with  the  Lyceum  Theatre  Company,  New  York. 
The  season  of  1889-90  he  was  seen  in  "Lord  Chumley"  with 
E.  H.  Sothern,  and  subsequently  toured  in  "The  Wife,"  and  with 
Margaret  Mather  in  repertoire.  The  seasons  of  1895-6-7-8  he 
supported  Lewis  Morrison,  and  then  appeared  in  "A  Lady  of 
Quality,"  and  "Ingomar,"  with  Julia  Arthur.  He  later  joined 
the  Augustin  Daly  company,  was  leading  man  with  Ada  Rehan 
for  nearly  two  years,  and  then  was  seen  with  Nat  Goodwin  in 
"A  Midsummer  Night's  Dream,"  and  with  Wilton  Lackaye  in 
"The  Pit."  The  seasons  of  1906-7-8  he  appeared  in  "The  Road 
to  Yesterday"  with  Minnie  Dupre. 

WILLARD,  Edward  Smith: 

Actor,  was  born  January  9,  1853,  at  Brighton,  England,  be 
ing  the  youngest  but  one  of  the  six  children  of  Smith  and  Ann 
Willard.  Though  none  of  the  family  had  ever  been  on  the  stage, 
his  earliest  inclination  was  toward  acting,  to  the  dissatisfaction 
of  his  father,  who  wished  him  to  engage  in  some  commercial 
pursuit.  When  he  was  only  sixteen  years  old  his  father  re 
luctantly  consented  to  let  him  experiment  with  his  dramatic 
talent,  predicting  a  speedy  and  crestfallen  return  to  the  parental 
roof;  and,  under  the  management  of  F.  Neebe,  of  the  Theatre 


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450  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Royal,  Exeter,  Mr.  Willard  made  his  first  appearance  on  the 
stage  at  Weymouth,  England,  December  26,  1869,  acting  the  part 
of  the  Second  Officer  in  "The  Lady  of  Lyons."  After  the  sea 
son  with  Neebe  Mr.  Willard  made  engagements  that  took  him 
the  round  of  the  Western  provinces,  afterward  going  to  Glasgow 
to  play  "responsible  utilities."  There  he  attracted  the  attention 
of  the  late  E.  A.  Sothern,  who  engaged  him  for  a  tour,  during 
which  he  played  Captain  De  Boots  in  "Dundreary  Married  and 
Settled,"  Mr.  Brown  in  "David  Garrick,"  and  Sir  Edward  Trench- 
ard  in  "Our  American  Cousin."  After  that  he  played  several 
stock  seasons,  including  one  at  Belfast,  Ireland,  in  1871,  where 
he  got  his  first  real  chance  as  John  Feme  in  "Progress,"  by 
T.  W.  Robertson.  This  performance  gave  him  a  status,  and 
soon  after  he  was  appearing  in  such  roles  as  Romeo,  Macduff, 
lago,  Falconbridge  in  "King  John,"  Wellborn  in  "A  New  Way 
to  Pay  Old  Debts,"  and  Edmund  in  "King  Lear"  in  support  of 
stars.  Mr.  Willard's  first  appearance  in  London  was  made  at 
the  Covent  Garden  Theatre  December  26,  1875,  when  he  acted 
Alfred  Highflyer  in  the  little  play  "A  Roland  for  an  Oliver," 
which  preceded  the  pantomime  of  "Cinderella,"  and  afterward 
Antonio  in  "The  Merchant  of  Venice,"  Charles  Rice  being  the 
Shylock.  At  the  expiration  of  this  engagement  Mr.  Willard  en 
tered  upon  a  series  of  stock  seasons  in  the  principal  cities,  add 
ing  to  his  rapidly  increasing  list  of  characters  Edgar  in  "King 
Lear,"  Eugene  Aram,  Sydney  Daryl  in  "Society,"  Horace  Holm- 
croft  in  "The  New  Magdalen,"  Robert  Ffolliott  in  "The  Shaugh- 
raun,"  Dubosc  and  Lesurques  in  "The  Lyons  Mail,"  and  Hector 
Placide  in  "Led  Astray."  A  turning  point  in  his  career  was  his 
engagement  in  September,  1877,  as  leading  man  in  support  of 
Helen  Barry,  which  gave  him  the  opportunity  to  play  Macbeth, 
Claude  Melnotte,  Lord  Clancarty,  Sir  Peter  Teazle,  Arkwright  in 
"Arkwright's  Wife,"  etc.,  a  repertoire  that  not  only  gave  him  a 
clear  idea  of  his  own  resources,  but  attracted  to  him  the  atten 
tion  of  managers.  From  this  time  the  young  artist's  services 
were  in  demand,  and  in  1881  he  was  engaged  by  the  late  Wilson 
Barrett  as  the  principal  actor  in  the  company  with  which  Mr. 
Barrett  began  his  long  management  of  the  Princess  Theatre  in 
London.  Mr.  Willard's  first  role  at  the  Princess  was  Clifford 
Armitage  in  "The  Lights  o'  London,"  by  G.  R.  Sims.  His  in 
tensity,  vigor  and  original  methods  in  that  part  gained  him  the 
favorable  recognition  of  the  London  public.  This  was  greatly 
strengthened  by  his  next  creation,  that  of  Philip  Royston  in 
"The  Romany  Rye."  His  first  really  great  London  success,  how 
ever,  was  made  as  the  Spider  (Captain  Skinner)  in  "The  Silver 
King,"  after  which  Mr.  Willard  was  pointed  to  as  the  coming 


WHO'S    WHO    ON    THZ    STAGE  451 

actor.     Other   notable  parts  played   by   Mr.   Willard   during   his 
five  years  at  the  Princess,  either  in  the  regular  bill  or  at  special 
matinees,  were:     The  King  in  "Hamlet,"  the  Holy  Clement  in 
"Claudin,"  Sextus  Tarquin  in  Bulwer  Lytton's  "The  Household 
Gods,"  Glaucias  in  "Clito,"  Mark  Lezzard  in  "Hoodman  Blind," 
King  William  in  "Lady  Clancarty,"  Tom  Pinch,  in  the  play  of 
that    title;    Wildrake    in    "The    Love    Chase,"    and    lachimo    in 
"Cymbeline."     In  1886  Mr.  Willard  began  an  engagement  at  the 
Haymarket   Theatre,   where   he   played   James  Ralston    in   "Jim 
the  Penman,"   Tony   Saxon   in   "Hard  Hit,"   and   Geoffrey   Dela- 
mayn  in  "Man  and  Wife."     In  June,  1889,  with  John  Lart,   he 
took  the  Shaftesbury  Theatre,  which  he  opened  with  a  revival 
of  "Jim  the  Penman"  preparatory  to  the  production  of  "The  Mid 
dleman,"  then  being  written  for  him  by  Henry  Arthur  Jones.  The 
latter  play  was  produced  August  29,  1889,  and  was  an   instan 
taneous  success,   Mr.  Willard's   performance   of   Cyrus  Blenkarn 
placing  him  in  the  front  rank  of  English  actors.     "The  Middle 
man"  was  followed  by  "Judah,"  by  the  same  author,  in  which 
Mr.  Willard  was  no  less  successful.     The  late  A.  M.  Palmer,  of 
New  York,  was  present  at  the  first  performance  of  "The  Middle 
man,"   and   suggested   to   Mr.   Willard   that   he   should  visit  the 
United  States.     A  partnership  was  entered  into,  and  at  Palmer's 
Theatre,  New  York,  on  November  12,  1890,  Mr.  Willard  made  his 
first   American   appearance   and   played    a   New   York   season    of 
twenty-two  weeks,  acting  in  "The  Middleman,"  "Judah,"  "John 
Needham's  Double,"  and  "Wealth,"  and  on  his  last  night  "Old 
Soldiers"  and  "My  Wife's  Dentist."     Chicago  and  Boston  were 
then  visited,  and  the  success  of  this  short  tour  practically  estab 
lished  Mr.  Willard  on  the  American  stage  as  a  general  favorite. 
Since  that  time  he  has  made  almost  annual  visits  to  the  United 
States  and  Canada.     On  June  1,  1893,  his  three  years'  partner 
ship  with  Mr.  Palmer  came  to  an  end.     He  then  took  the  reins 
of  management  into  his  own  hands  and  has  since  conducted  his 
own  business  affairs.     In  the  very  long  list  of  plays  in  which  he 
has   been   seen   here,   besides   those   already    named,   are:     "The 
Professor's  Love  Story"  (which  he  has  now  played  about  a  thou 
sand  times,  equaling  the  number  of  performances  of  "The  Mid 
dleman"),  "A  Fool's  Paradise,"  "David  Garrick,"  "The  Rogue's 
Comedy,"  "The  Pnysician,"  "Hamlet,"  "All  for  Her,"  "The  Car 
dinal,"   "Tom  Pinch,"  "The  Fool's  Revenge,"  "A  Pair  of  Spec 
tacles,"  "The  Brighter  Side,"  "The  Man  Who  Was,"  and  "Colo 
nel  Newcome."     Mr.   Willard   is  a  member  of  the  Garrick  and 
Green  Room  clubs,  of  London,  and  The  Players  and  the  Lotos 
Club,  of  New  York. 


452  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

WILDER,  Marshall  P. : 

Entertainer,  humorist  and  author,  was  born  at  Geneva,  N.  Y.. 
September  19,  1859.  At  an  early  age  he  was  taken  to  New 
York,  where  he  has  since  lived,  except  for  brief  periods  of  resi 
dence  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  Hartford,  Conn.  He  started  life 
as  a  file  boy  in  Bradstreet's  Commercial  Agency,  later  becoming 
stenographer  there.  He  began  his  professional  career  as  an  en 
tertainer  in  1879,  appearing  in  drawing-rooms,  churches  and  at 
concerts  in  the  evening  while  keeping  up  his  work  in  the  day 
time.  Finding  that  entertaining  paid  best,  he  finally  gave  all 
his  attention  to  it,  traveling  through  the  country  and  appearing 
on  the  lyceum  platform  in  every  principal  city  of  the  United 
States.  In  1884  he  made  his  first  trip  to  London,  where  his 
success  was  immediate.  Since  then  he  has  made  twenty  trips 
there,  and  during  that  time  has  appeared  before  the  Prince  of 
Wales  (now  King  Edward  VII)  on  sixteen  occasions,  besides 
many  members  of  the  Royal  family  and  the  nobility.  In  Decem 
ber,  1898,  he  made  his  initial  appearance  in  vaudeville  at  Proc 
tor's  Twenty-third  Street  Theatre,  New  York,  and  his  success 
in  that  field  was,  and  has  been,  so  marked  that  he  has  devoted 
himself  almost  exclusively  to  it.  In  1904-5  he  made  a  tour  of 
the  world  and  gave  many  successful  entertainments  in  Japan, 
China,  Manila,  Ceylon  and  Egypt.  He  is  the  author  of  "People 
I've  Smiled  With,"  published  in  1891;  "The  Sunny  Side  of  the 
Street,"  published  in  1905,  and  "Smiling  Around  the  World." 
He  has  done  a  great  deal  of  journalistic  work,  and  has  been 
identified  with  many  prominent  dailies.  In  1903  he  married 
Sophia  Cornell  Hanks,  of  Brooklyn.  His  home  is  at  the  Flor- 
ham,  256  West  Ninety-seventh  street,  New  York. 

WILLIAMS,  Espy: 

Playwright,  was  born  near  New  Orleans,  and  was  educated 
in  that  city.  His  first  play,  "Parrhasius,"  a  tragedy,  was  pro 
duced  by  Robert  Mantell  in  1894,  who  also  acted  in  Mr.  Will- 
iams's  "The  Husband,"  and  "The  Queen's  Garter."  His  other 
productions  are  "The  Man  in  Black,"  by  Walker  Whiteside,  in 
1897;  "A  Cavalier  of  France,"  by  Louis  James,  in  1897;  "The 
Duke's  Jester,"  by  Frederick  Warde,  1900;  "Unorna,"  1902,  and 
"The  Emperor's  Double,"  1903. 

WILLIAMS,  Fritz  (Frederick  Williams)  : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston  August  23,  1865,  his  father  and 
mother  being  members  of  the  stock  company  at  the  Boston  Mu 
seum  for  fifteen  years.  Fritz  made  his  first  appearance  on  the 


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stage  at  that  theatre  when  six  months  old,  being  carried  on  by 
William  Warren,  the  comedian,  in  a  farce  called  "Seeing  War 
ren."  In  1879  Fritz  Williams  attracted  much  attention  as  Sir 
Joseph  Porter  in  a  juvenile  "Pinafore"  company  at  the  Boston 
Museum.  The  same  year  his  family  moved  to  New  York,  and 
Fritz  won  some  fame  as  a  concert  singer,  singing  "Gilmore's 
American  Anthem"  at  a  big  concert  at  Madison  Square  Garden, 
on  St.  Patrick's  Day,  3880.  Being  clever  with  the  violin,  he  also 
became  a  member  of  the  Germania  Theatre  orchestra,  and  for 
two  seasons  was  first  violin  at  Tony  Pastor's.  During  this  time 
he  was  studying  at  St.  John's  College,  Fordham,  N.  Y.,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  when  twenty  years  old.  Mr.  Williams 
made  his  first  appearance  as  a  professional  actor  at  Wallack's 
Theatre,  New  York,  as  Anatole  in  "A  Scrap  of  Paper."  He  then 
made  a  success  as  Jimmy  in  "Nita's  First,"  an  English  farce. 
He  afterward  played  with  Frank  Mayo  in  "The  Streets  of  New 
York,"  and  with  Edwin  Booth  in  "Don  Caesar  de  Bazan."  He 
then  acted  with  Dion  Boucicault  in  "The  Jilt"  and  other  plays 
for  three  successive  seasons.  A  season  with  Arthur  Rehan  on 
the  road  followed,  and  in  1889  Mr.  Williams  became  a  member 
of  the  Lyceum  Theatre  Company,  New  York,  remaining  with 
the  organization  until  1896.  During  that  time  his  chief  suc 
cesses  were  as  Alec  Robinson  in  "The  Charity  Ball,"  Ferguson 
Pybus  in  "The  Case  of  Rebellious  Susan,"  the  Count  du  Grival 
in  "The  Amazons,"  and  Frank  Trendal  in  "The  Home  Secre 
tary."  Leaving  the  Lyceum  company,  Mr.  Williams  was  seen  in 
many  farce  comedies  such  as  "Thoroughbred,"  "On  and  Off,"  etc. 
The  season  of  1900-1  he  was  with  the  Weber  and  Fields  Company. 
Of  late  years  he  has  appeared  in  various  parts  and  many  com 
panies.  Mr.  Williams  married  Katherine  Florence,  an  actress, 
June  25,  1896. 


WILLIAMS,  Gus: 

Comedian,  was  born  at  119  Bowery,  New  York,  July  19. 
1847,  and,  after  attending  the  public  schools  to  the  age  of  eleven, 
started  West  to  fight  the  "Injuns."  He  got  only  as  far  as 
Knightstown,  Ind.,  however,  where  he  was  employed  by  a  farmer 
to  annihilate  potato  bugs  and  feed  the  stock  for  his  board,  wash 
ing  and  lodging.  In  1862  he  enlisted  in  an  Indiana  regiment 
and  went  to  the  front  in  the  Civil  War.  After  his  return  lo 
New  York  he  sang  in  the  concert  halls,  and  finally,  in  1868,  made 
his  first  professional  appearance  in  Tony  Pastor's  Theatre  in  a 
song  entitled  "Kaiser,  Don't  You  Want  to  Buy  a  Dog?"  For 
the  next  ten  years  he  was  under  Mr.  Pastor's  management,  and 


454  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

in  August,  1879,  lie  went  starring  in  "Our  German  Senator,"  in 
which  he  achieved  popular  success.  Since  then  he  has  appeared 
in  several  German  comedies,  among  them  "Wanted,  a  Carpenter," 
"One  of  the  Finest,"  "Captain  Mishler,"  and  "U  and  I."  The 
season  of  1907-8  he  was  in  vaudeville.  Mr.  Williams  is  the  au 
thor  of  a  number  of  comic  songs,  among  them  being  "That  Lit 
tle  German  Band,"  "See  That  My  Grave's  Kept  Green,"  "Seven 
Oud,"  "One  of  the  Finest,"  and  "Pins  and  Needles." 

WILLIAMS,  Miss  Hattie: 

Actress  and  light  opera  soubrette,  was  born  in  Boston,  and 
made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  as  a  member  of  the 
chorus  in  Rice's  production  of  "1492"  in  Boston.  When  the 
production  was  taken  to  the  Garden  Theatre,  New  York,  Miss 
Williams  was  given  the  small  part  of  the  Infanta.  She  next  ap 
peared  as  the  Dancing  Girl  in  the  original  production  of  "Tril 
by"  at  the  same  theatre.  For  some  seasons  afterward  she  was 
associated  with  the  Hoyt  farce  comedies.  She  next  played  the 
leading  part  in  "The  Girl  from  Maxim's"  on  the  road,  and  the 
following  season  became  leading  woman  with  the  Rogers  Broth 
ers  in  "The  Rogers  Brothers  at  Harvard."  It  was  in  this  that 
her  imitations  attracted  much  attention,  and  she  was  engaged 
to  support  Sam  Bernard,  afterward  becoming  joint  star  with 
him  in  "The  Girl  from  Kay's,"  and  "The  Rollicking  Girl."  The 
fall  of  1906  she  became  a  full-fledged  star  as  Mollie  Montrose  in 
"The  Little  Cherub,"  produced  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New 
York,  and  toured  in  it  the  seasons  of  1906-7-8.  Later  she  was 
seen  in  Clyde  Fitch's  "Fluffy  Ruffles." 

WILSON,  Edwin : 

Actor  and  singer,  was  born  in  Huntsville,  Ala,,  where  his 
father  was  a  physician.  He  sang  as  a  church  choir  boy  in 
Huntsville,  and  Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  and  afterward  appeared  at 
concerts  and  amateur  dramatic  entertainments  in  many  South 
ern  cities.  His  first  professional  engagement  was  in  a  summer 
stock  company  at  Memphis,  Tenn.  He  then  went  to  New  York 
and  played  in  "Three  Little  Lambs"  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Thea 
tre.  Then  followed  engagements  in  "The  Cadet  Girl,"  "The 
Prima  Donna,"  "Gay  New  York,"  and  "The  New  Yorkers."  Mr. 
Wilson  was  in  Paris,  France,  during  1904,  singing  in  privato 
houses  of  the  American  colony,  and  the  summer  of  1905  he  was 
in  "Lifting  the  Lid"  on  the  Aerial  Roof  Garden,  New  York.  The 
season  of  1906-7  he  was  with  Eddie  Foy  in  "The  Earl  and  tho 
Girl,"  and  with  Harry  Bulger  in  "Noah's  Ark." 


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WILSON,  Francis: 

Actor  and  author,  was  born  at  Philadelphia  on  February  7. 
1854.  His  father,  Charles  E.  Wilson,  was  of  Quaker  parentage 
and  his  mother  a  Virginian.  Although  none  of  his  forebears 
were  players,  Francis  Wilson  sang  and  danced  as  soon  as  he 
could  talk  and  walk,  and  showed  the  player's  spirit  in  his  knick- 
erbocker  days.  He  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  as  a 
child  in  Philadelphia  in  a  dance  called  "The  Essence  of  Old 
Virginny. "  As  a  youth  he  organized  amateur  minstrel  perform 
ances,  one  of  which  was  staged  in  the  Assembly  Building,  Tenth 
and  Chestnut  streets,  Philadelphia.  This  led  to  his  associating 
himself  with  another  youth  with  similar  capabilities,  James  E. 
Mackin,  and  together  they  toured  the  country,  singing  and  danc 
ing.  In  1877,  when  he  was  twenty-three  years  old,  Mr.  Wilson 
gave  up  the  hundred  dollars  a  week  his  partnership  with  Mackiu 
was  netting  him,  to  gratify  what  had  from  the  outset  been  his 
ambition — the  legitimate  stage.  He  took  a  place  at  fifteen  dollars 
a  week  as  general  utility  man  at  the  Chestnut  Street  Theatre, 
Philadelphia,  where  William  E.  Sheridan,  W.  J.  Ferguson,  Frank 
Sanger,  Charles  Stanley,  Lily  Glover,  Alice  Mansfield  and  Mrs. 
Stoneall  were  among  the  players.  There  he  made  his  first  ap 
pearance  in  legitimate  comedy  as  Cool  in  "London  Assurance." 
He  became  second  low  comedian,  playing  Sam  Gerridge  in  Rob 
ertson's  "Caste,"  and  continued  at  the  same  theatre  for  the  sea 
son  of  1878-9  at  a  salary  of  twenty  dollars  a  week.  In  the  summer 
of  that  season  he  appeared  with  Annie  Pixley  in  "M'liss."  All 
this  time  he  was  overcoming  the  handicap  of  the  lack  of  an  early 
education  by  constant  study  of  literature,  drama  and  music.  He 
took  up  sparring  and  fencing,  and  in  1876  won  the  amateur  fenc 
ing  championship  of  the  United  States  at  Gilmore's  (Madison 
Square)  Garden,  New  York.  When  lack  of  patronage  forced  the 
Chestnut  Street  Theatre,  Philadelphia,  to  close  its  doors,  Mr. 
Wilson  joined  "Mitchell's  Pleasure  Party,"  one  of  the  earliest  of 
American  musical  plays.  In  1883  in  San  Francisco  he  started 
in  comic  opera  as  Sir  Joseph  Porter  in  "Pinafore."  He  became 
the  leading  comedian  of  the  McCaull  Opera  Company  and  of  the 
Casino  in  New  York  in  1885,  remaining  there  until  1889,  and 
creating  the  character  of  Cadeaux  in  "Erminie."  Subsequently 
he  organized  his  own  company,  in  which  he  has  since  taken 
leading  comedy  roles  in  "The  Oolah,"  "The  Merry  Monarch," 
"The  Lion  Tamer,"  "Erminie"  (revival),  "The  Chieftain," 
"Devil's  Deputy,"  "Half  a  King,"  and  "The  Little  Corporal," 
1898-9;  "Cyrano  de  Bergerac,"  1900;  "The  Monks  of  Malabar," 
1901;  "The  Strollers,"  1901-2;  "The  Toreador,"  1902-3.  In  1904-5 
he  engaged  in  legitimate  comedy,  under  the  management  of 


456  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Charles  Frohman,  as  Billy  Jenks,  of  Allentown,  Pa.,  in  "Cousin 
Billy"  ("Le  Voyage  de  M.  Perrichon"),  an  adaptation  from  the 
French,  by  Clyde  Fitch.  In  April,  1905,  he  produced  Austin 
Strong  and  Lloyd  Osbourne's  "The  Little  Father  of  the  Wilder 
ness,"  playing  in  this  one-act  drama  the  character  of  Pere  Mar- 
lotte.  In  February,  1906,  he  produced  "The  Mountain  Climber," 
a  comedy  ("Der  Hochtourist"),  from  the  German,  by  Graatz  and 
Neal.  The  season  of  1907-8  he  was  seen  in  "When  Knights  Were 
Bold,"  produced  at  the  Garrick  Theatre,  New  York,  August  20, 
1907.  In  1881  Mr.  Wilson  married  Miss  Mira  Barree,  of  Chi 
cago.  They  have  had  two  children,  Frances  and  Adelaide,  the 
former  being  the  wife  of  Monsieur  Charles  Huard,  the  French 
cartoonist.  In  addition  to  a  number  of  magazine  articles,  Mr. 
Wilson  is  the  author  of  "Recollections  of  a  Player,"  "The  Eu 
gene  Field  I  Knew,"  "Joseph  Jefferson:  Recollections  of  a  Fel 
low  Player,"  "Letters  of  an  Actor  to  His  Daughter,"  "The 
Madonna  of  the  Mansion,"  and  several  unproduced  plays.  He 
is  frequently  heard  on  the  lecture  platform.  He  is  a  member 
of  The  Players  and  The  Lambs.  He  lives  at  The  Orchard,  New 
Rochelle,  N.  Y.  Business  address,  Empire  Theatre,  New  York. 

WILSON,  George  W. : 

Actor,  was  born  in  Boston  September  24,  1856,  and  made  his 
first  appearance  with  the  stock  company  at  the  Boston  Theatre 
when  he  was  twenty-one  years  old.  He  remained  with  that  com 
pany  until  1894,  and  on  November  25,  1878,  at  that  theatre  he 
was  the  first  in  this  country  to  play  Sir  Joseph  Porter  in  "Pina 
fore."  Associated  with  him  in  that  production  were  Joseph  Ha- 
worth,  Melbourne  MacDowell,  William  Morris,  Marie  Wainwright 
and  Sadie  Martinot.  The  season  of  1895-6  Mr.  Wilson  played  in 
"The  Old  Homestead"  and  in  "The  Salt  of  the  Earth."  He  then 
organized  his  own  company  and  toured  New  England.  He  made 
his  chief  success  as  Louis  XI,  supporting  E.  H.  Sothern  in  "If  I 
Were  King,"  playing  two  seasons  in  New  York.  He  also  sup 
ported  Annie  Russell  in  "Brother  Jacques." 

WINTER,  Percy: 

Actor  and  stage  manager;  the  son  of  William  Winter,  the 
well-known  dramatic  critic;  was  born  in  Toronto,  Canada,  No 
vember  16,  1861.  He  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  as 
the  Boy  in  "Henry  V,"  supporting  George  Rignold,  when  he  was 
sixteen  years  old.  The  next  season  he  was  assistant  stage  man 
ager  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New  York,  and  the  year  fol 
lowing  appeared  in  a  like  capacity  on  the  road  with  the  Madison 
Square  Theatre  Company.  The  next  two  seasons  he  appeared  in 


WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE  457 

the  support  of  Genevieve  Ward,  and  then  came  three  seasons 
with  Lawrence  Barrett.  He  then  supported  Helen  Dauvray  one 
season,  another  with  Gene\ieve  Ward,  and  in  1887  he  appeared 
on  tour  as  Professor  Browning  in  "Our  Society."  Mr.  Winter 
then  entered  upon  a  long-term  contract  with  A.  M.  Palmer,  and 
was  stage  manager  with  "Jim  the  Penman,"  "Saints  and  Sin 
ners,"  and  "Aunt  Jack."  He  next  appeared  with  E.  S.  Willard 
in  his  extensive  repertoire,  and  was  then  director-in-chief  of  the 
Theatre  of  Arts  and  Letters,  New  York,  which  collapsed  after 
six  months,  in  May,  1893.  Practically  ever  since  then  he  has 
been  director  of  stock  companies  in  Washington,  Boston,  Balti 
more,  Denver,  Kansas  City,  Providence,  Buffalo  and  Cleveland. 
He  is  divorced  from  Mary  Sanders,  whom  he  married  October  7, 
1887,  and  their  daughter,  Ellen  Terry  Winter,  born  three  years 
later,  is  the  wife  of  John  Meehan,  an  actor. 

WINTER,  Miss  Winona: 

Actress  and  singer,  was  born  in  Huntsville,  Ala.,  in  1888, 
being  the  daughter  of  Banks  Winter,  the  song  writer  and  com 
poser.  She  was  educated  at  the  Boston  High  School,  and  made 
her  first  appearance  on  the  stage  in  Detroit  with  "The  Little 
Tycoon"  company.  She  first  attracted  attention  in  the  vaudeville 
theatres  in  this  country,  and  then  went  to  London,  where  she 
played  at  the  leading  music  halls.  Her  work  attracted  the  at 
tention  of  Charles  Frohman  in  the  summer  of  1906,  and  he  en 
gaged  her  for  his  musical  comedy  company.  She  returned  to 
this  company  and  opened,  as  Lady  Agnes  Congress,  in  "The  Lit 
tle  Cherub"  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New  York,  and  in  which 
she  was  seen  the  season  of  1907-8. 

WISE,  Thomas: 

Actor,  was  born  in  England,  but  began  his  stage  career  in 
this  country  in  a  melodrama  called  "Lost  in  New  York,"  after 
which  he  was  seen  in  "The  Private  Secretary"  with  William  Gil 
lette  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York.  Subsequent  successes 
were  in  "Mr.  Wilkinson's  Widow,"  "Men  and  Women,"  and 
"Gloriana. "  For  successive  seasons  he  played  in  "The  War  of 
Wealth,"  and  "Shall  We  Forgive  Her?"  after  which  he  became 
Stuart  Robson's  leading  man.  After  playing  in  "The  Last  Chap 
ter,"  and  "The  Cuckoo,"  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York,  he  ap 
peared  in  "The  Wrong  Mr.  Wright,"  by  George  Broadhurst,  in 
London,  England,  this  same  play  forming  the  basis  of  "The  Lady 
from  Lane's,"  the  musical  comedy  produced  the  season  of  1907-3 
with  Mr.  Wise  again  in  the  principal  comedy  role.  The  seasons 
of  1901-2-3  he  was  joint  star  with  John  C.  Rice  in  "Are  You  a 


458  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Mason?"  after  which  he  appeared  in  "Vivian's  Papas,"  and  "Har 
riet's  Honeymoon."  He  was  also  seen  in  "Home  Folks,"  "Mrs. 
Temple's  Telegram,"  "The  Prince  Chap,"  "Before  and  After," 
"Clarice,"  and  "The  Optimist."  The  season  of  1906-7  he  played 
the  principal  comedy  part  in  "The  Little  Cherub"  at  the  Cri 
terion  Theatre,  New  York,  and  the  fall  of  1907  he  created  the 
part  of  Singleton  Seabright  in  "The  Lady  from  Lane's,"  first 
produced  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  New  York.  He  was  seen  as  Mr. 
Hook  in  "Miss  Hook  of  Holland"  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New 
York,  December  31,  1907. 

WOLFF,  William: 

Comedian,  was  born  in  Germany  in  1861.  He  came  to  the 
United  States  during  the  Civil  War,  at  the  age  of  four,  and  at 
tended  school  in  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y.,  until  he  was  eighteen.  In 
1876  his  parents  moved  to  Syracuse,  and  there,  at  the  age  of 
nineteen,  he  took  up  amateur  theatrical  work.  He  made  his 
first  appearance  on  any  stage  in  Syracuse  as  Gaspard  in  "The 
Chimes  of  Normandy."  Mrs.  Henrietta  Holman,  manager  of  the 
opera  company  known  as  the  Holman  Sisters,  saw  his  perform 
ance,  and  made  him  an  offer  of  six  dollars  a  week  and  expenses. 
The  fascination  of  the  stage  led  him  to  give  up  a  good  business 
to  accept  this  offer.  After  remaining  with  this  company  for  two 
seasons,  and  meeting  with  ill  success  in  New  York  in  subsequent 
engagements,  he  went  to  Chicago,  and  in  1881  joined  the  Chi 
cago  Church  Choir  Company,  then  managed  by  Will  J.  Davis. 
With  this  company  he  took  charge  of  the  stage  and  played  the 
principal  comedy  parts  in  all  the  Gilbert  and  Sullivan  operas. 
After  an  engagement  with  the  Hess  Grand  Opera  Company  he 
became  the  leading  comedian  of  the  Fay  Templeton  Opera  Com 
pany.  Returning  to  Chicago,  he  played  in  stock  opera  at  Gre- 
nier's  Garden  until  1885.  From  Chicago  he  jumped  to  the  Pacific 
Coast  with  Colonel  William  Thompson's  opera  company,  leaving 
it  to  play  the  Judge  in  George  S.  Knight's  production  of  "Baron 
Rudolf."  Once  more  back  in  Chicago,  he  for  two  months  played 
at  the  head  of  his  own  company.  He  paid  expenses,  nothing 
more.  He  then  became  stage  manager  and  leading  comedian  on 
the  George  A.  Baker  Opera  Company,  with  which  he  remained 
seven  years.  In  1894,  with  Thomas  W.  Prior,  he  organized  an 
opera  company  which  played  at  the  Schiller  Theatre,  Chicago. 
It  was  the  year  of  the  Pullman  strike,  and  Mr.  Wolff's  last  cent 
paid  for  the  passage  of  the  members  of  his  company  back  to 
New  York.  Soon  afterward  Mr.  Wolff  became  acquainted  with 
Henry  W.  Savage,  and  to  him  proposed  a  stock  opera  company 
for  the  Castle  Square  Theatre,  Boston.  Mr.  Savage  at  once  en- 


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gaged  Mr.  Wolff  to  organize  the  company,  and  on  May  5,  1895, 
the  Castle  Square  Opera  Company  gave  its  first  performance, 
with  Mr.  Wolff  as  general  director  and  leading  comedian.  He 
continued  to  be  general  director  for  Mr.  Savage  for  four  years, 
during  which  time  he  organized  companies  for  Boston,  Philadel 
phia,  New  York,  Baltimore  and  Washington.  In  1889  he  sang 
in  opera  for  a  year  in  San  Francisco,  jumped  to  Honolulu,  and 
while  there  accepted  a  cable  offer  from  J.  C.  Williamson  to  go 
to  Australia  and  become  stage  manager  of  the  Williamson  Grand 
Italian  Opera  Company.  After  a  tour  around  the  world,  he 
stopped  in  London  for  six  months  to  stage  a  revival  of  "The 
Belle  of  New  York,"  in  which  he  played  the  part  of  Muggs. 
From  there  he  went  to  Havana  to  play  a  short  engagement.  For 
the  last  four  years  he  has  played  in  the  Shubert  productions, 
making  personal  successes  in  "The  Runaways,"  "Winsome  Win 
nie,"  and  "Happyland."  He  has  played  one  hundred  and  forty 
grand  and  comic  opera  parts.  Mr.  Wolff  is  the  senior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Wolff,  Fording  &  Co.,  theatrical  costumers,  of  Boston. 

WOOD,  Miss  Marjorie: 

Actress,  was  born  in  London,  England,  September  5,  1887, 
being  the  daughter  of  George  M.  and  Marguerite  St.  John  Wood, 
the  actress,  known  on  the  stage  as  Marguerite  St.  John.  She 
was  educated  in  London  and  Paris,  and  made  her  first  appear 
ance  on  the  stage  at  the  Boston  (Mass.)  Theatre  with  Denman 
Thompson  in  "The  Old  Homestead"  September,  1904.  The  sea 
son  of  1905-6  she  was  seen  as  Molly  Livingstone  in  "Strongheart" 
with  Robert  Edeson,  and  later  played  that  role  in  London.  The 
summers  of  1906  and  1907  she  was  a  member  of  the  Hunter- 
Bradford  Stock  Company  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  the  Euclid 
Avenue  Stock  Company  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  respectively.  The 
season  of  1907-8  she  appeared  as  Phillis  Stafford  in  "Classmates" 
with  Robert  Edeson,  which  opened  at  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New 
York,  August  29,  1907,  and  was  seen  with  Mr.  Edeson  in  a  special 
performance  of  "The  Sinner"  December  31,  1907.  Miss  Wood's 
favorite  recreations  are  reading  and  outdoor  sports.  Her  address 
is  the  St.  James  Hotel,  New  York  City. 

WOODRUFF,  Henry: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Jersey  City  in  1870,  and  made  his  first 
appearance  on  the  stage  nine  years  later  at  the  Fourteenth 
Street  Theatre,  New  York,  in  the  chorus  of  a  children's  "Pina 
fore"  company.  He  was  speedily  promoted  to  the  part  of  the 
Boatswain,  and  afterward  to  that  of  Ralph  Rackstraw.  His 
next  engagement  was  with  Daniel  Bandmann  as  the  Page  in 


460  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

"Narcisse."  Mr.  Woodruff  then  played  boys'  parts  with  Adelaide 
Nielson,  scoring  in  her  production  of  "Cymbeline."  Two  sea 
sons  playing  Ned  in  "The  Black  Flag"  with  Edwin  Thome  fol 
lowed,  and  in  1887  Mr.  Woodruff  joined  the  stock  company  of 
the  late  A.  M.  Palmer  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  New  York, 
making  his  first  appearance  as  Jack  Ralston  in  "Jim  the  Pen 
man."  He  also  created  the  part  of  Lathrop  Page  in  "Alabama," 
by  Augustus  Thomas,  and  Arthur  Hubbard  in  "Surrender,"  by 
the  same  author.  Mr.  Woodruff  created  the  part  of  Ben  Hur  in 
the  adaptation  of  General  Lew  Wallace's  novel,  and  the  seasons 
of  1905-6-7-8  he  starred  in  "Brown  of  Harvard." 

WOOLEY,  Frank: 

Actor  and  singer,  was  born  in  Walsall,  England,  February 
10,  1858,  and  was  educated  at  Haywood  Academy  in  that  town. 
Before  going  on  the  stage  he  was  a  bookkeeper.  He  made  his 
first  appearance  in  London,  Ontario,  as  Pippo  in  "The  Mascot" 
with  the  Holman  Opera  Company.  Then  in  successive  seasons 
he  was  with  the  Bennett  and  Moulton  Opera  Company,  Keith's 
Stock  Company,  Boston  Ideal  Opera  Company,  Castle  Square 
Opera  Company,  "King  Dodo"  company,  "The  Maid  and  the 
Mummy,"  "The  Chaperones,"  and  the  Aborn  Stock  companies. 
Mr.  Wooley's  permanent  address  is  care  of  Witmarks,  music 
publishers,  West  Thirty-seventh  street,  New  York  City. 

WEIGHT,  Huntley: 

Actor,  was  born  in  London,  England,  in  1868,  being  the  son 
of  Frederick  Wright,  the  actor-manager,  and  Jessie  Frances 
Wright,  an  actress.  He  was  educated  in  London  and  Edin 
burgh,  and  made  his  first  appearance  on  the  stage  when  six 
months  old,  assuming  the  part  of  the  heroine's  child  in  a  melo 
dramatic  offering.  He  joined  his  father's  traveling  repertoire 
company  when  nineteen  years  old,  playing  in  comedy  and  drama 
for  eight  years.  He  then  appeared  at  Daly's  Theatre,  London, 
under  George  Edwardes,  in  productions  of  "San  Toy,"  "The  Lit 
tle  Michus,"  "The  Country  Girl,"  and  "The  Cingalee."  His  first 
great  success  was  attained  as  the  Chinaman  in  "The  Geisha'' 
while  at  that  playhouse.  In  1905  he  severed  his  connection  with 
Daly's  and  was  engaged  by  Charles  Frohman,  first  appearing 
under  the  new  management  in  the  German  comedy  "The  Moun 
tain  Climber,"  and  in  a  curtain  raiser  "The  Little  Father  of 
the  Wilderness"  in  1905.  The  following  year  he  went  back  into 
musical  comedy,  and  was  seen  as  the  Chinaman  in  "See  See"  at 
the  Prince  of  Wales's  Theatre,  London.  During  the  season  of 


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462  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

1906-7  he  played  the  leading  comedy  role  in  "Les  Merveilleuses" 
at  Daly's  under  George  Edwardes'  management  again.  The  sea 
son  of  1907-8  he  took  the  part  of  Joe  Mivens,  A.B.,  in  "The 
Dairymaids"  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  New  York,  and  on  tour. 
Mr.  Wright  has  two  sisters  and  two  brothers  connected  with  the 
stage.  His  favorite  recreations  are  shooting,  riding  and  golfing. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Green  Room  Club,  London.  His  New 
York  address  is  care  of  Charles  Frohman. 

WORTHING,  Frank: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Scotland,  and  began  his  professional  ca 
reer  as  assistant  prompter  in  an  English  stock  company.  His 
first  important  engagement  was  in  support  of  Sarah  Thorne  in 
whose  company  he  soon  rose  from  the  smallest  to  the  most  im 
portant  parts.  In  1890  he  joined  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell's  com 
pany,  first  appearing  with  her  as  Orlando  in  "As  You  Like  It." 
Afterward  he  succeeded  the  late  Charles  Coghlan  as  leading  man 
with  Mrs.  Langtry,  playing  Orlando,  Claude  Melnotte,  Charles 
Surface  and  Lord  Clancarty.  His  next  engagement  was  with 
Sir  Charles  Wyndham  at  the  Criterion  Theatre,  London.  After 
two  years  there  he  joined  Olga  Nethersole,  with  whom  he  made 
his  first  appearance  in  America.  After  his  season  with  her  he 
was  engaged  by  August  in  Daly,  and  appeared  at  Daly's  Theatre 
in  leading  roles  with  Ada  Kenan.  After  playing  in  "A  House 
of  Cards,"  by  Sydney  Rosenfeld,  he  became  leading  man  in  the 
Frawley  Stock  Company  and  toured  the  Pacific  Coast.  Return 
ing  to  New  York  in  1899,  he  supported  Annie  Russell  in  "Catha 
rine."  The  following  season  he  appeared  in  Israel  Zangwill's 
"Children  of  the  Ghetto,"  and  in  the  title  role  of  "Naughty  An 
thony"  with  Blanche  Bates  in  David  Belasco's  production  of 
that  play.  One  of  his  most  recent  and  pronounced  successes  was 
in  "The  Climbers"  with  Amelia  Bingham's  production  of  Clyde 
Fitch's  play.  In  1902-3  he  was  with  Julia  Marlowe  in  "The 
Queen  Fiametta,"  and  "The  Cavalier;  in  1903-4,  in  "Fools  of 
Nature,"  and  "The  Other  Girl";  1904-5,  with  Miss  Bingham  in 
"The  Climbers,"  "The  Wife  Without  a  Smile,"  "Mrs.  Temple's 
Telegram,"  and  with  Margaret  Anglin  in  repertoire  in  1905-G, 
with  Miss  Anglin  in  "Zira,"  Ellis  Jeffreys  in  "The  Fascinating 
Mr.  Vanderveldt,"  and  with  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell  in  London. 
The  fall  of  1906  Mr.  Worthing  appeared  in  support  of  Grace 
George  in  "Clothes,"  and  early  in  1907  he  was  with  her  in 
"Divorgons"  at  Wallack's  Theatre,  New  York.  In  June  he 
opened  in  the  same  play  with  her  in  London,  England,  afterward 
playing  it  in  this  country  the  season  of  1907-8. 


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WYNDHAM,  Sir  Charles: 

Actor  and  manager,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  England,  March 
23,  1837,  and  was  educated  at  a  Moravian  school  in  Germany. 
He  studied  for  the  medical  profession;  but,  before  qualifying,, 
went  on  the  stage,  making  his  first  appearance  at  the  Royalty 
Theatre,  Dublin,  as  Christopher  in  "Carnation,  of  Carnation  Col 
lege"  in  1862.  The  following  year  he  came  to  this  country  and 
served  in  the  medical  department  of  the  Union  Army  for  a 
short  time  during  the  Civil  War.  He  met  John  Wilkes  Booth, 
through  whose  influence  he  obtained  an  engagement  under  Mrs. 
John  Wood,  and  made  his  appearance  at  the  old  Olympic  Thea 
tre,  New  York.  Returning  to  the  army,  he  served  in  the  Seven 
Days  and  the  Red  River  campaigns.  In  1865  he  returned  to 
England  and  resumed  his  stage  career.  He  played  with  Kate 
Terry  on  her  farewell  tour;  with  Irving,  Toole  and  Henrietta 
Hodson  in  "Dearer  Than  Life,"  and  in  1870  was  again  seen  in 
this  country.  In  1876  he  became  lessee  of  the  Criterion  Theatre, 
London,  which  he  made  famous  as  the  home  of  farce  comedy, 
producing  "Pink  Domino,"  "Truth,"  "The  Great  Divorce  Case," 
"Betsy"  and  many  other  plays  of  that  class.  He  also  won  suc 
cess  in  such  parts  as  Charles  Surface,  Dazzle,  David  Garrick,  etc. 
He  played  the  latter  piece  in  the  German  language  in  Berlin, 
St.  Petersburg  and  Moscow.  He  built  Wyndham's  Theatre,  Lon 
don,  in  1899,  and  the  New  Theatre,  London,  in  1903.  He  was 
knighted  by  King  Edward  in  1902.  He  is  the  brother-in-law  of 
Bronson  Howard,  the  American  playwright,  who  married  his 
sister. 

YEAMANS,  Mrs.  Annie  (nee  Annie  Griffiths) : 

Actress,  was  born  on  the  Isle  of  Man  November  19,  1835, 
She  made  her  first  stage  appearance  at  the  age  of  ten  in  Syd 
ney,  Australia,  as  Little  Julia  in  "A  Father's  Daughter,"  and 
continued  in  juvenile  roles  for  several  seasons.  She  was  finally 
apprenticed  to  Rowe's  Circus,  an  American  troupe  playing  in 
Australia  at  the  time.  When  she  was  eighteen  years  old  she- 
married  Edward  Yeamans,  a  clown  with  the  Rowe  Circus,  and 
until  his  death  performed  her  acts  with  him.  In  1865  they 
came  to  this  country,  touring  the  Middle  States,  and  three  years- 
later,  coming  East,  Mrs.  Yeamans  was  engaged  by  Mrs.  F.  B. 
Conway,  at  that  time  manager  of  a  stock  company  in  Brooklyn. 
After  appearing  with  this  organization  four  years,  Mrs.  Yea- 
mans  attracted  the  attention  of  Augustin  Daly  by  her  clever 
Irish-American  characterizations.  She  was  engaged  by  him  for 
his  company,  then  playing  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  New  York, 
but  she  soon  joined  the  famous  team  of  Harrigan  and  Hart,  who- 


464  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

were  then  making  their  first  successes,  keeping,  however,  to  her 
favorite  role — the  portrayal  of  the  Irish-American  type.  Since 
that  time  she  has  appeared  in  numerous  companies  and  in 
nearly  every  city  in  this  country-  Before  retiring  from  the  stage 
on  her  seventy-second  birthday,  Mrs.  Yeamans  was  seen  in  Rich 
ard  Carle's  production  of  his  "Hurdy  Gurdy  Girl"  at  Wallack's 
Theatre,  New  York,  and  in  December,  1907,  appeared  in  Arnold 
Daly's  company  at  the  Berkeley  Lyceum,  New  York.  Mrs.  Yea- 
mans  is  the  mother  of  Jennie  Yeamans,  the  actress,  who  died 
recently. 

YOKE,  Miss  May  (Mrs.  Bradlee  Putnam  Strong) : 

Actress,  was  born  in  a  small  town  in  Pennsylvania,  where 
her  father  was  a  saloonkeeper.  She  first  attracted  attention  in 
the  chorus  of  the  David  Henderson  productions  in  Chicago,  and 
was  subsequently  seen  in  several  musical  comedies.  She  then 
went  to  London,  and  while  in  the  cast  of  "Little  Christopher 
Columbus"  she  was  married  to  Lord  Francis  Hope,  brother  and 
heir  to  the  Duke  of  Newcastle.  After  retiring  for  some  time, 
Miss  Yohe  returned  to  the  stage  and  was  seen  in  several  musical 
comedies,  including  "The  Magic  Opal,"  and  "The  Lady  Slavey," 
in  London.  She  was  divorced  from  Lord  Hope  and  afterward 
married  Bradlee  Putnam  Strong,  a  son  of  a  former  mayor  of  New 
York,  and  who  had  held  a  major's  commission  in  the  United 
States  Army,  but  was  subsequently  dismissed  from  the  service. 
With  Strong  she  resided  for  some  time  in  Japan,  but  returned  to 
this  country  in  1906  and  went  into  vaudeville,  where  she  con 
tinued  the  season  of  1907-8. 

YOUNG,  James: 

Actor,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  and  before  going  on  the  stage 
was  associated  with  the  political  and  newspaper  life  of  Mary 
land,  his  grandfather  having  been  Mayor  of  Baltimore  and  his 
father  a  State  Senator  for  many  years.  He  was  educated  at  the 
Baltimore  City  College.  He  made  his  first  appearance  on  the 
stage  in  the  important  part  of  Hamlet  at  Charlottesville,  Va., 
and  for  six  seasons  starred  in  Shakespearian  repertoire.  He  ap 
peared  with  Miss  Elsie  De  Wolfe  in  Sardou's  "Thermidor,"  and 
for  two  seasons  was  with  Sir  Henry  Irving's  company.  He  then 
played  a  long  line  of  leading  and  character  parts,  including 
Krogsladt  in  "A  Doll's  House,"  and  Clavignac  In  "Divorgons" 
with  Mrs.  Fiske.  He  next  played  Sebastian  in  "Twelfth  Night" 
with  Miss  Viola  Allen,  attracting  attention  by  the  unusual  re 
semblance  between  Viola  and  Sebastian.  He  also  starred  in  a 
play  called  "Lord  Byron,"  written  by  his  wife.  The  next  season 


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466  WHO'S    WHO    ON    THE    STAGE 

Mr.  Young  played  leads  with  Miss  Allen,  including  Prince  Flori- 
zel  in  "The  Winter's  Tale."  He  has  also  played  one  season  with 
the  Fifth  Avenue  Stock  Company,  New  York,  appearing  as  Fran 
cois  Villon  in  "Ir  I  Were  King,"  the  Poet  in  "Candida,"  in  "Fair 
Exchange,"  etc.  Mr.  Young  was  engaged  to  play  opposite  parts 
to  Miss  Annie  Russell  at  the  opening  of  the  Astor  Theatre,  New 
York,  September  21,  1906,  appearing  as  Oberon,  which  he  con 
tinued  to  play  throughout  the  season  of  1906-7.  Mr.  Young  mar 
ried  Miss  Rida  Johnson,  of  Baltimore,  a  well-known  playwright. 
He  is  a  member  of  The  Players  and  The  Lambs,  New  York;  the 
Indian  Harbor  Yacht  Club  and  the  Arundel  Boat  Club.  His 
New  York  home  is  at  the  Prasada,  Central  Park  West  and  Sixty- 
fifth  street,  and  his  summer  home  at  Belle  Haven,  Greenwich, 
Conn. 

YOUNG,  Rida  Johnson  (Mrs.  James  Young)  : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  educated  at 
Wilson  College,  Chambersburg,  Pa.  Her  first  produced  play  was 
"Lord  Byron,"  in  which  her  husband  starred.  Her  play,  "Brown 
of  Harvard,"  was  produced  at  the  Princess  Theatre,  New  York, 
April  2,  1906,  by  Henry  Miller,  with  Harry  Woodruff  in  the  title 
part,  and  enjoyed  a  very  long  run.  Her  next  play  was  "Glorious 
Betsy,"  produced  the  fall  of  1906  by  J.  K.  Hackett,  with  his 
wife,  Miss  Mary  Mannering,  in  the  star  part.  "The  Boys  of 
Company  B,"  Mrs.  Young's  next  play,  was  produced  at  the  Ly 
ceum  Theatre,  New  York,  April  8,  1907,  by  Daniel  Frohman, 
with  Arnold  Daly  in  the  principal  part.  Mrs.  Young  has  also 
novelized  her  play  "Brown  of  Harvard,"  and  is  the  author  of 
a  book  of  fiction,  "Borders  of  Bohemia,"  and  a  number  of  one- 
act  plays.  She  is  the  wife  of  James  Young,  an  actor.  She  is  a 
member  of  the  Twelfth  Night  Club. 

ZANGWILL,  Israel : 

Playwright,  was  born  in  London  in  1864,  being  the  son  of 
M.  Zangwill,  a  Jewish  refugee.  He  received  some  little  educa 
tion  in  elementary  schools,  but  is  practically  self-educated.  In 
1903  he  married  Edith  Ayrton,  a  daughter  of  Professor  Ayrton. 
He  was  originally  an  elementary  school  teacher  and  then  a 
journalist,  acting  as  editor  of  a  humorous  weekly  called  Ariel. 
He  is  the  author  of  numerous  plays,  including  "Six  Persons," 
played  at  the  Haymarket,  London,  in  1892;  "Children  of  the 
Ghetto,"  Adelphi,  London,  1899,  and  Herald  Square,  New  York; 
"The  Moment  of  Death,"  at  Wallack's,  New  York,  1000;  "The 
Revolted  Daughter,"  a  comedy,  1901;  "Merely  Mary  Ann,"  Duke 
of  York's,  1904,  played  in  this  country  by  Eleanor  Robson:  "The 


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Serio-Comic  Governess,"  Lyceum,  New  York,  1904;  "Jinny,  the 
Carrier,"  Criterion,  New  York,  1904;  "A  Great  Demonstration," 
and  "Nurse  Marjorie,"  produced  at  the  Liberty  Theatre,  New 
York,  with  Miss  Eleanor  Robson,  October  8,  1906.  He  has  writ 
ten  many  essays,  novels  and  poems,  and  is  a  leader  in  the 
Zionist  movement  for  the  formation  of  an  autonomous  Jewish 
state.  Mr.  Zangwill's  home  is  at  9  Elm  Tree  road,  St.  John's 
Wood,  London,  N.  W. 

ZIEGFELD,  Florence,  Jr.: 

Manager,  was  born  in  Chicago  March  25,  1867,  and  edu 
cated  at  the  public  schools  there  and  at  the  University  of  Michi 
gan.  Among  his  more  important  theatrical  productions  are  "A 
Parlor  Match,"  with  Evans  and  Hoey;  "Papa's  Wife,"  "The 
Little  Duchess,"  "Mile.  Napoleon,"  and  "The  Parisian  Model," 
in  all  of  which  his  wife,  Miss  Anna  Held,  starred.  The  season 
of  1907-8  he  produced  "The  Follies  of  1907."  Mr.  Ziegfeld  mar 
ried  Miss  Anna  Held  in  Paris  May,  1901.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Athletic  and  the  Ashland  clubs,  Chicago.  His  busi 
ness  address  is  Broadway  Theatre,  New  York. 


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